"Anders is a Swedish hockey player who played his career for Brynäs IF, totaling ten seasons for the club. Nicklas' mother Catrin Bäckström (born in Finland) played handball in the Swedish and Finnish Elite League in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nicklas' older brother Kristoffer is a retired professional hockey player, who played the second tier of the Swedish league system with Hammarby IF, and in a German league. Bäckström and his fiancée, Liza Berg, have two children, a daughter and a son. Nicklas Bäckström Nicklas Bäckström (; born 23 November 1987) is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre"
"Arena. Prior to his NHL career, Lidström competed in one European Junior Championships in 1988, one World Junior Championship in 1990 and one Canada Cup in 1991 for Sweden. Prior to his rookie season with the Red Wings, he earned his first gold medal with Sweden at the 1991 World Championships. Three years later, he competed in the 1994 World Championships in Italy and won a bronze medal. Two years later, he participated in the inaugural 1996 World Cup of Hockey (successor of the Canada Cup) and contributed three points in four games. He made his Olympic debut with Sweden"
"season. On 23 June 2011, he won his seventh Norris Trophy even though his plus/minus rating for the year was -2, tying with Doug Harvey and remaining one behind Bobby Orr for most Norris Trophies. This was only the third time in history that a player with a negative plus/minus rating won the Norris Trophy. On 22 October 2011, in a game against the Washington Capitals, Lidström became the 14th player in the history of the NHL to play 1,500 games. He is the first player not being born in North America, and therefore the first Swedish and European player,"
"Lidström became the fourth defenceman in NHL history with as many as five Norris Trophy wins, joining Hockey Hall of Famers Bobby Orr (eight), Doug Harvey (seven) and Ray Bourque (five). Near the beginning of the 2007–08 season, in an 8 October win against the Edmonton Oilers, Lidström registered two assists, passing Peter Forsberg as the second-highest scoring Swedish-born NHL player of all-time. He trails only Mats Sundin (as of the end of the 2011–12 season, Lidström has 1,142 points to Sundin's 1,349). Later in the season, on 26 December, Lidström signed a contract extension through the 2009–10 season. Several"
"the game winning goal in the gold medal game against Finland. In doing so, Lidström became a member of the Triple Gold Club, adding an Olympic gold medal to go with his previous Stanley Cups with Detroit and his World Championship gold medal in 1991. Lidström was also selected to the 2010 Olympic All-Star Team. Lidström also played for Sweden in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, serving as team captain in what would be his final Olympic appearance. Lidström announced his retirement from Olympic competition following Sweden's loss to Slovakia. Lidström is married to Annika, with whom he has"
"Sweden, Lidström was honored by his home county, Dalarna, as an Ambassador of Honor. On 15 October 2009, in a game against the Los Angeles Kings, Lidström became the first European-born defenceman to reach 1,000 points after recording two assists in the game. He is the fourth player to score 1,000 points as a Red Wing (after Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio and Steve Yzerman), and the eighth defenceman to do so in the history of the NHL. On 5 March 2010, Lidström earned his 800th career assist. Also during the 2009–10 season, Lidström played in his 1,395th game (finishing the"
"in Allsvenskan, Sweden's first tier. Lidberg has two children. Jimmy Lidberg Jimmy Lidberg (born 13 April 1982) is a retired Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic bronze medalist and won several World and European Championship medals as well. Lidberg grew up in Farsta and on Södermalm in Stockholm and won several titles in wrestling. His older brother Martin Lidberg is also a wrestler. He won his first senior Swedish Championship when he was 17 years old. He has won three straight European Wrestling Championships medals and three straight World Wrestling Championships medals, while later winning a fourth World Championship"
"Konstantinov. Representing Sweden, Lidström won the World Championship in 1991. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Lidström was a major factor in Sweden's win over Finland in the finals, scoring the gold medal-clinching goal, thus earning him a spot on the Olympic All-Star Team. He also became the 17th member of the Triple Gold Club. ""The Hockey News"" selected Lidström as the ""Best European-trained player ever in the NHL."" The ""Sporting News"" and ""Sports Illustrated"" selected Lidström as the ""NHL Player of the Decade."" Lidström was set to make $10 million during the 2005–06 season, but due to the new terms"
"Niklas Bergström Lars Niklas Bergström (born 18 August 1974) is a Swedish sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for Sweden in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of seventeen medals in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the World Championships, and the European Championships. Bergstrom trains under head coach Claes Johansson for the national running target team, while shooting at Glaskogens JSK in Glava. Bergström qualified for his first and only Swedish squad in the last Olympic running target competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens."
"the Detroit Red Wings' defenceman Nicklas Lidström, signed a three-year, entry-level contract with no bonuses at the NHL maximum of US$925,000 per year with the Devils on 15 July 2011, due to general manager Lou Lamoriello's disapproval of performance bonuses. He made the team in training camp and became the first 18-year-old defenceman to dress for the Devils in the regular season since Scott Niedermayer in the season, only the sixth under-20 defenceman to play for the Devils, and the first 18-year-old defenceman in the NHL since 2008, when Drew Doughty, Zach Bogosian and Luke Schenn all made their NHL"
"Cup teams from Sweden. He qualified for The Masters year-end singles tournament in 1984, 1985, and 1986. Nystrom was part of the generation of outstanding Swedish players in the 1980s and early 1990s, which included Anders Järryd, Jonas Svensson, Mikael Pernfors, Kent Carlsson, Stefan Edberg, Henrik Sundström, and Mats Wilander. Since retiring from tennis, Nyström has served as Fed Cup captain for Sweden and as an assistant coach to Wilander with the Swedish Davis Cup team. Outside these commitments, he coaches both Finn Jarkko Nieminen and Austrian Jürgen Melzer. Jack Sock has also hired him as his coach. NH ="
"at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Four years later was his next international appearance, playing in his second Olympics at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where Sweden was upset by Belarus in the quarter-final after being heavy favourites in the round-robin. Lidström made his third World Championships appearance in 2004, but only appeared in two games. That summer, he also competed in the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, where he scored one goal. In the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Lidström helped Sweden avenge their quarter-final upset to Belarus in Salt Lake City, scoring"
"missed the postseason during his career, the longest in league history for a player never missing the playoffs. Lidström was the first European-born-and-trained captain of a Stanley Cup winning team, as well as the first European player named playoff MVP. Lidström is also the all-time leader in games played with only one NHL team and by a European-born player. Lidström was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on 9 November 2015. In 2017 Lidström was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. Widely considered one of the greatest defencemen of all time, Lidström was awarded the"
"play on the left side of midfield as a wide midfielder, Källström had the potential to work as a deep lying playmaker or as a more attacking influence. He was also known for his left-footed free kick ability. Notes: Kim Källström Kim Mikael Källström (; born 24 August 1982) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer team New England Revolution in United States. He is noted for his play-making ability and free-kick taking. He started his career at several clubs in Sweden, winning consecutive Allsvenskan titles with Djurgården before moving to France where"
"Kim Källström Kim Mikael Källström (; born 24 August 1982) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer team New England Revolution in United States. He is noted for his play-making ability and free-kick taking. He started his career at several clubs in Sweden, winning consecutive Allsvenskan titles with Djurgården before moving to France where he represented Rennes and Lyon. Källström won a range of domestic honours with Lyon and joined Spartak in 2012. He spent the spring season of 2013-14 on loan at Arsenal FC, where he won the 2013–14 FA Cup after"
"in all of the first 6 rounds of Allsvenskan - a new all-time record for Allsvenskan. He has played for the Sweden national football team. Mattias Lindström (footballer) Karl Mattias Lindström (born April 18, 1980 in Helsingborg) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays for Ödåkra IF as a midfielder. He played for SV Mattersburg from June 2008 to March 2009 before his contract was terminated. Thereafter, Lindström signed with GAIS. He joined Innsbruck in 2008, signing from Aalborg Boldspilklub of the Danish Superliga championship. Before moving to Denmark, Lindström played eight seasons for Swedish team Helsingborgs IF, for whom"
"from an early age. Hammarby's former sporting director Mats Jingblad added that Lidberg is a modern forward that often make runs behind the defenders. Isac Lidberg Isac Alexi Sivert Lidberg (born 8 September 1998) is a Swedish footballer who plays for HamKam, on loan from Start, as a forward. He is son to wrestler Martin Lidberg. Isac grew up mainly in Stockholm and is the second born child to Swedish reality television star and wrestling world champion Martin Lidberg. His uncle is Jimmy Lidberg, a fellow Olympic medalist wrestler. He practiced wrestling as well for several years and was a"
"Isac Lidberg Isac Alexi Sivert Lidberg (born 8 September 1998) is a Swedish footballer who plays for HamKam, on loan from Start, as a forward. He is son to wrestler Martin Lidberg. Isac grew up mainly in Stockholm and is the second born child to Swedish reality television star and wrestling world champion Martin Lidberg. His uncle is Jimmy Lidberg, a fellow Olympic medalist wrestler. He practiced wrestling as well for several years and was a big talent, but quit to focus on his football instead. Lidberg dreams of playing for Bayern Munich one day and his idol footballer is"
"Ludvig Fjällström Ludvig Fjällström (born in Åre) is a Swedish freestyle skier, specializing in moguls. Fjällström competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Sweden. He placed 16th in the first qualifying round in the moguls, not advancing. He then finished 7th in the second qualifying round, moving on to the final. In the first run of the final, he placed 19th, failing to advance. His best showing at the World Championships is 12th, in the 2013 dual moguls. Fjällström made his World Cup debut in March 2010. As of February 2018, his best World Cup finish is 3rd, in a"
"challenge from Russia's Igor Kolessov to capture his first ever Worlds medal in a bronze medal duel 20 to 19, finishing third at 391 points. Niklas Bergström Lars Niklas Bergström (born 18 August 1974) is a Swedish sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for Sweden in running target shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of seventeen medals in a major international competition, spanning the ISSF World Cup series, the World Championships, and the European Championships. Bergstrom trains under head coach Claes Johansson for the national running target team, while shooting at Glaskogens JSK"
"""2 medals (2 bronze)"" Fredrik Lindström (biathlete) Fredrik Lindström (born 24 July 1989) is a Swedish biathlete. His debut in the Biathlon World Cup took place on 12 December 2008 in Hochfilzen, where he ended up in 47th place. Born in Bredbyn, he represented Sweden at the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics. His best result is a 1st place in the Men's relay in 2018. Lindström won 2 medals in the Biathlon World Championships: bronze in mass start in 2012 and bronze in individual in 2013. All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union."
"with an 11-1 record. The team then beat Switzerland twice in the playoffs to claim the gold medal. Lindström would move to Norway and would join the Steffen Walstad team at lead. They would qualify for the 2017 World Men's Curling Championship where they would finish in 8th place with a 5-6 record. Lindström works as a security guard. His twin brother Kristian skips his own team in Sweden and formerly played for Niklas Edin rink. Alexander Lindström Alexander Lindström (born November 4, 1989 in Lit, Sweden) is a Swedish-Norwegian curler, from Oslo. Lindström twice represented Sweden at the World"
"Martin Lidberg Martin Lidberg (born 1 February 1973, in Farsta in the south of Stockholm) is a highly decorated Swedish wrestler. He is a world champion, two-time European champion as well as 19-time Swedish champion. He has competed in the olympics three times (last time in Athens). In 2007 he won Let's Dance 2007 in Sweden together with his dancing partner Cecilia Ehrling, defeating Tobbe Blom, host of Idol 2005. Lidberg and Ehrling represented Sweden in the Eurovision Dance Contest 2007, where they placed 14th. Lidberg defeated MMA fighter Dan Henderson at the 1996 olympics. In the 2004 Olympic Games"
"Thomas Rådström Thomas Rådström (born 22 January 1966), nicknamed """"Rådis"""", is a rally and rallycross driver from Sweden. He was one of the leading drivers of the National Swedish Rallycross Championship series during the second half of the 1980s. He then started rallying and competed in the World Rally Championship for nine consecutive years during 1994–2002, and returned in 2006. He won the Swedish Rally Championship in 1996, and his most significant international successes have been in his home event, the Swedish Rally, which he won in 1994 when the event was not part of the WRC schedule. This was"
"in sports such as alpine skiing (Pernilla Wiberg and Anja Pärson), golf (Annika Sörenstam), ice hockey (Mats Sundin, Nicklas Lidström and Peter Forsberg), and football (Tomas Brolin, Henrik Larsson and Zlatan Ibrahimović). Sweden has also emerged as a great power in track and field with world champions as Carolina Klüft, Kajsa Bergqvist, Stefan Holm, Christian Olsson and Susanna Kallur, and hosting of the World Championships in 1995 and the European Championships in 2006, both in Gothenburg. The national swimming team has boasted champions like Anders Holmertz, Therese Alshammar and Emma Igelström. In 2006, the ice hockey team won gold at"
"Jimmy Lidberg Jimmy Lidberg (born 13 April 1982) is a retired Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic bronze medalist and won several World and European Championship medals as well. Lidberg grew up in Farsta and on Södermalm in Stockholm and won several titles in wrestling. His older brother Martin Lidberg is also a wrestler. He won his first senior Swedish Championship when he was 17 years old. He has won three straight European Wrestling Championships medals and three straight World Wrestling Championships medals, while later winning a fourth World Championship medal. Overall, he has won eight consecutive medals from"
"Niklas Sundström Lars Niklas Sundström (born June 6, 1975) is a former professional ice hockey player who started his professional career in Modo Hockey. He was drafted eighth overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers. He was also on Wayne Gretzky's line. He was not known for his goal scoring ability, but for his defensive play. He was traded to the San Jose Sharks in 1999, and to the Montreal Canadiens in 2003. Sundström plays forward and specializes in defensive roles. When he was a junior player he formed a line in Modo with future"
"converting a penalty kick in the semifinal. Källström left Spartak in 2015 to join Grasshopper Club Zürich, where he had a 49 games long spell before ending his career at Djurgårdens IF together with close friend Andreas Isaksson. Källström earned 131 caps for Sweden since his debut in 2001 until 2016 when he announced his departure from international football, making him their fourth most capped player of all time. He played in four European Championships (Euro 2004, Euro 2008, Euro 2012, and Euro 2016) and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Källström was born in Sandviken 24 August 1982 to footballer"
"Champion. He also won the Swedish, Dutch and Belgian Cups and was voted Swedish player of the year twice (1972 and 1974, winning Guldbollen). He has been an expert radio commentator since the 1980s. Ralf Edström Ralf Sigvard Edström (born 7 October 1952 in Degerfors) is a Swedish former footballer. Starting his career in Degerfors IF, a club known to produce many young talents, Edström moved to Åtvidabergs FF and became national champion in 1972. Edström made 40 appearances for the Swedish national team and scored 15 times. He is most noted for his performance in the 1974 FIFA World"
"Nils Bäckström Nils Bäckström (born 29 June 1986) is a Swedish ice hockey player who has played professionally in USA, Finland, Sweden and Russia. He currently plays for AIK IF in the Swedish second division, HockeyAllsvenskan. Bäckström began his junior hockey career in his native Sweden with Stocksund and later Djurgårdens IF Hockey. He was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. In 2006, he moved to North America, where he attended the University of Alaska Anchorage, playing four seasons of NCAA Division I college hockey with the Alaska Anchorage Seawolves. During the summer period"
"Open 2nd Men's singles Dutch Open Men's Doubles Portugal Open Men's singles German Open Men's Doubles Hall of Fame Badminton Sweden Thomas Kihlström Thomas Kihlström (born 1948) is a former badminton player from Sweden known for his agility, tactical astuteness, and coolness under pressure. Though an impressive singles player early in his career, his greatest successes came in doubles. Kihlström won the 1983 IBF World Championships in mixed doubles with Nora Perry. He also won 16 medals at the European Championships, two of them in men's singles, two in mixed doubles, five in men's doubles and 7 in team competition."
"Bergqvist, and Athens Olympic gold medalist Stefan Holm. Two other Swedish athletes won gold medals in the 2004 Olympic Games: heptathlete Carolina Klüft and triple jumper Christian Olsson. Susanna Kallur is the World record holder for the indoor 60m hurdles set in 2008. Electronic sports are also gaining momentum in Sweden since the launch of StarCraft II with Swedish national televisions covering Dreamhack events throughout the year. Notable names are Jonathan ""Jinro"" Walsh for his performances South Korea, and Marcus ""Thorzain"" Eklöf and Johan ""NaNiwa"" Lucchesi for being two of the top non-Korean players during 2011-2013. Swedish players have also"
"from 2001 to 2003, becoming the first defenceman since Bobby Orr to win three straight. In the 2003–04 season, he played in his 1,000th game of his career, having missed only 17 games in 12-and-a-half seasons (1994–95 was shortened to 48 games instead of the usual 82 by a labour dispute). In the 2002 Stanley Cup playoffs, Lidström was named the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player during the playoffs, becoming the first European to ever be awarded the trophy. Lidström began his career in Avesta, Sweden, playing with Skogsbo SK, before moving on to play"