13 Notable alumni of
Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
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The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences is 2535th in the world, 803rd in Europe, and 16th in Sweden by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Princess Birgitta of Sweden
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Princess Birgitta of Sweden is a member of the Swedish royal family. She is the second child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and an elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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Pia Sundhage
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Pia Mariane Sundhage is a Swedish football manager and former professional player. Most recently she was the head coach of the Brazil women's national team. As a player, Sundhage played most of her career as a forward and retired as the top scorer for the Sweden national team, but she also had stints playing as a midfielder and a sweeper.
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Erik Hamrén
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- bandy playerassociation football playerassociation football manager
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Erik Anders Hamrén is a Swedish manager and former football player, who most recently was the manager of Danish Superliga club AaB. He also previously coached the Sweden national football team between 2009 and 2016 and the Iceland national football team from 2018 to 2020.
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Sven Tumba
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- ice hockey playerassociation football playergolfer
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Sven Tumba was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf and became Swedish champion in waterskiing.
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Bosse Parnevik
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- impressionistfilm actorcomedianactor
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Bo Sigfrid Parnevik (born 20 March 1938, in Gothenburg) is a Swedish impersonator, revue artist and comedian. He is member of Lokalrevyer i Sverige and gives the "Parnevik Scholarship" to good revue artists every year. His son is professional golfer Jesper Parnevik.
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Anders Gärderud
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- middle-distance runnerorienteer
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Sven Anders Gärderud is a Swedish former track and field athlete, winner of the 3000 m steeplechase event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
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Sven-Åke Lundbäck
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- cross-country skier
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Sven-Åke Lundbäck is a former Swedish cross-country skier. He competed at the 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics in the 15 km, 30 km and 4 × 10 km events and won a gold medal over 15 km in 1972. He was close to a bronze medal in the 4 × 10 km relay in 1972, but fell near the finish; he had another fourth place in the relay in 1980.
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Gunnar Larsson
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- swimmer
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Karl Gunnar Larsson is a former swimmer from Sweden. He won the 400 metre individual medley event at the 1972 Summer Olympics by two one-thousandths (0.002) of a second over American Tim McKee, breaking the Olympic record. The controversy over the accuracy of such timing was the reason the international swimming rules were subsequently changed, and today swimming times are measured in hundredths of a second.
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Viktor Balck
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- soldiergymnastsports official
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Viktor Gustaf Balck KVO KCMG was a Swedish Army officer and sports personality who was one of the original members of the International Olympic Committee, president of the International Skating Union for 30 years, the driving force behind the Nordic Games, and who is often called "the father of Swedish sports".
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Per-Olof Åstrand
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- physicianphysiologist
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Per-Olof Åstrand was a Swedish professor of physiology at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH) in Stockholm 1970–1977, and 1977–1988 at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and a member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet (1977–1988). Åstrand is considered a "pioneer", "legend" and one of the "founding fathers" of modern exercise physiology.
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Mona-Lisa Englund
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- badminton playerhandball playerfigure skaterathletics competitor
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Mona-Lisa Englund was a Swedish athlete, who competed in track and field athletics, figure skating, handball and badminton among other sports. Her best achievement was fourth place in the pentathlon at the 1950 European Championships.
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Emmy Alasalmi
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- ice hockey player
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Emmy Gunilla Alasalmi is a Swedish ice hockey defenseman and member of the Swedish national team, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with AIK Hockey and also serving as assistant general manager of the team. She holds the record for most games played in an AIK uniform and is seventh all-time among all SDHL players.
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Henrik Lange
- Enrolled in the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
- Studied in 1933-1934
- Occupations
- military personnel
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Lieutenant General Henrik Lange was a Swedish Coastal Artillery officer. Lange's senior commands include postings as Inspector of the Swedish Coastal Artillery, Chief of the Naval Staff and military commander of the Western Military District.
