Sven Säfwenberg
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
21 May 1898 Uppsala, Sweden | ||
| Died |
15 January 1950 (aged 51) Gävle, Sweden | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| Sirius | |||
| 1913– | IFK Uppsala | ||
| National team | |||
| Sweden | |||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Sven Otto "Sleven" Säfwenberg (21 May 1898 – 15 January 1950) was a Swedish early sportman, mainly active as a bandy goalkeeper but also in ice hockey and sailing.
Born in Uppsala, Säfwenberg underwent education in Påhlmans Handelsinstitut, Stockholm, in 1923 and had various jobs in the sports equipment industry in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden from 1920 to 1927. In 1927 he started his own business producing and selling bandy sticks and balls.
Säfwenberg played in two clubs, IK Sirius and IFK Uppsala. Sune Almkvist persuaded him to choose IFK Uppsala, where he took over the goalkeeper spot for Seth Howander, which instead became a right defencemen.
After having debuted for the IFK Uppsala team in 1913, Säfwenberg won seven Swedish championships in bandy, from 1915 to 1920 and in 1933.[1] Säfwenberg was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1933.[2] As of 2024, he is still the only one awarded medal for a performance in bandy.[3] Säfwenberg was also awarded the Stora Grabbars Märke in bandy with number 1.[4]
He played one match for the Sweden national ice hockey team in the 1921 Ice Hockey European Championship and became European champion.
As a sailor he represented the Royal Swedish Yacht Club, Upsala Segelsällskap, Gefle Segelsällskap and Segelklubben Surfing.[1] He sailed in the Neptunkryssare class.[5]
He was brother of ice hockey player David[6] and bandy player Harry Säfwenberg.[1] He died in Gävle.
References
- ^ a b c Brewitz, Paul (1946). "Säfwenberg, Sven". Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon: uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. Band 6 S–Övrevoll (in Swedish). Stockholm: Nordisk familjeboks förlag.
- ^ "Sven "Sleven" Säfwenberg". Nationalencyklopedin.
- ^ "Nya gatan döps efter legendaren – men vem var egentligen Sleven?". 3 March 2024.
- ^ "Stora Grabbar - Svenska Bandyförbundet". www.svenskbandy.se. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015.
- ^ "Svante Lidén minns allmogens bandyhjälte – nej inte Snoddas". 10 February 2020.
- ^ "David Säfwenberg". Olympedia.
- 1898 års män i ord och bild 1898–1948: en bokfilm 1898–1948 och ett biografiskt lexikon, (in Swedish) edited by Ph.D. H Granvik, curator Nils Olsson, Carl Wahlstedt, K G Lindeström, Svenska Kulturförlaget, Stenström & Bartelson, Malmö 1948 page 765
- Sveriges dödbok 1947–2003, (CD-ROM version 3.0), edited by Sveriges Släktforskarförbund, SSf, 2005