Torbjörn Ek (25 June 1949 – 18 August 2010) was a Swedish

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two team sport, teams wearing Ice skates#Bandy skates, ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The playin ...

and

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player and manager. He was considered one of the country's top bandy players during the 1970s and early 1980s. Ek was capped 102 times for the

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, scoring 89 goals, and was a member of silver-medal winning teams at the

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on 6 occasions. He was a member of the team which won the junior bandy world cup in 1967. In 1975 Ek's team

Ljusdals BK Ljusdals BK (LBK) is a Swedish bandy club currently playing in Elitserien (the top division in Swedish bandy). LBK was founded on 19 January 1943 and is playing at Gamla Idrottsparken ( IP) in Ljusdal, Hälsingland. In 1975, the club won the ...

won the Swedish bandy league. He managed the Swedish national bandy team for 1 match, in 1993. Ek also had an elite football career, playing in 62

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matches, for AIK (1971–1973) and

GIF Sundsvall Gymnastik- och Idrottsföreningen Sundsvall, more commonly known as GIF Sundsvall (), Giffarna or simply Sundsvall, is a Swedish professional association football, football club based in Sundsvall. The club is affiliated with Medelpads Fotbollf� ...

(1975), winning a silver medal as a member of the AIK team which finished as runner-up in the 1972 season.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ek, Torbjorn 1947 births 2010 deaths People from Ljusdal Municipality Swedish bandy players Swedish men's footballers Swedish football managers AIK Fotboll players GIF Sundsvall players Allsvenskan players Ljusdals BK players Västerås SK Bandy players Men's association football players not categorized by position Sportspeople from Gävleborg County 20th-century Swedish sportsmen