Stockholmspolisens IF is a
Swedish
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sports club from
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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, founded on 9 August 1914.
Stockholmspolisens IF has departments in
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
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basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
,
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
,
judo
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, combat sport, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyc ...
,
triathlon
A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of Swimming (sport), swimming, Cycle sport, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the ...
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swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...
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diving
Diving most often refers to:
* Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water
* Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes
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Sports
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masters swimming
Masters swimming is a special class of competitive swimming for swimmers 25 years and older. Premasters is normally included as well, from 18 years old (Canada, United States, United Kingdom and Australia) or 20 years old (Europe).
In Canada te ...
, and
water polo
Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
. From the beginning, the club was only for policemen and their families, however from 1940s, the sports club has been opened to everyone.
Swimming
The current swimming club was founded on 16 June 2014.
Swimmers
''Swimmers that have participated in the Summer Olympics while representing Stockholmspolisens IF:''Annelie Holmström
Annelie Birgitta Holmström (born 10 January 1964) is a breaststroke Swedish swimmer. She competed in two events at the 1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Ang ...
* Tommie Lindström
* Jan Lundin
* Anders Norling
*Diana Olsson
Diana Olsson (born 28 August 1957) is a former Swedish backstroke swimmer. Olsson participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics
The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad ( ...
* Britt-Marie Smedh
*Bo Westergren
Bo Åke Westergren (born 23 May 1950) is a Swedish former butterfly and freestyle swimmer. He competed in three events at the 1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and offici ...
* Eva Wikner
Waterpolo
The team roster for the 2015–16 season:Hans Lundén
Hans Lundén (born 13 August 1957) is a Swedish water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as ...
Goalkeepers:
* Olaani Hedeta
* Mehdi Malek Mehdi () is a common Arabic masculine given name, meaning "rightly guided". People with the name Mehdi generally originate from Iran, with other notable countries of origin being India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, France, Mo ...
Field players:
* Henrik Sjöberg
Kristian Henrik Rudolf Sjöberg (20 January 1875 in Stockholm – 1 August 1905 in Helsingør) was a Swedish gymnast, athlete, and medical student. He competed as the only Swedish participant at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Sjöberg ...
(centre back)
* Richard Ericson (centre back)
* Maxime Gazzo (centre back)
* Oskar Thiel (C) (all round)
* Mattias Renholm (driver)
* Andreas Hartzell (driver)
* Pierdomenico Polito (driver)
* Mark Conrad (driver)
* Michael Lawson
Michael Lawson is an Irish singer who won the fifth season of ''The Voice of Ireland'' in 2016.
Career
After successfully becoming the fifth and final winner of ''The Voice of Ireland'', he won a recording contract with Universal Music.
His ...
(driver)
* Vicente Tirado (centre forward)
* Johan Lundén Johan may refer to:
* Johan (given name)
* ''Johan'' (1921 film), a Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller
* Johan (2005 film), a Dutch romantic comedy film
* Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group
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* Joh ...
(centre forward)
* Kim Hansson (lefthanded / centre forward)
* Vedran Preloznik (lefthanded)
Water polo players
''Water polo players that have participated in the Summer Olympics while representing Stockholmspolisens IF:''[
* Anders Flodqvist
* Arne Jutner
]
References
External links
Stockholmspolisens IF's official homepage
Swimming clubs in Sweden
Sports clubs and teams established in 1912
Sports clubs and teams in Stockholm
1912 establishments in Sweden
Water polo clubs in Sweden
Police sports clubs and teams
Multi-sport clubs in Sweden
1910s establishments in Stockholm
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