Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal
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Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal | |
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Date | 1925 | -
Country | Sweden |
Presented by | Svenska Dagbladet |
The Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal (Swedish: Svenska Dagbladets guldmedalj, but usually simply called Bragdguldet, "The Feat Gold") is an annual award "for the most significant Swedish sports achievement of the year". It has been awarded by a jury led by the Swedish morning paper Svenska Dagbladet since 1925. According to its statutes the Medal may be awarded in November or December to either an individual sportsperson or a team. An individual can be awarded the Medal no more than twice, and to receive a second medal, that athlete must be "regarded a class of his own".
Contents
List of gold medalists
1920s
- 1925 - Sten Pettersson, athletics
- 1926 - Arne Borg, swimming, and Edvin Wide, athletics
- 1927 - Sven Salén, sailing
- 1928 - Per-Erik Hedlund, cross-country skiing
- 1929 - Gillis Grafström, figure skating, and Sven Utterström, cross-country skiing
1930s
- 1930 - Johan Richthoff, wrestling
- 1931 - Sven Rydell, soccer
- 1932 - Ivar Johansson, wrestling
- 1933 - Sven "Sleven" Säfwenberg, bandy
- 1934 - Harald Andersson, athlete
- 1935 - Hans Drakenberg, fencing
- 1936 - Erik August Larsson, cross-country skiing
- 1937 - Torsten Ullman, shooting
- 1938 - Björn Borg, swimming
- 1939 - Sven Selånger, ski jumping and nordic combined
1940s
- 1940 - Henry Kälarne, athletics, and Håkan Lidman, athletics
- 1941 - Alfred Dahlqvist, cross-country skiing
- 1942 - Gunder Hägg, athletics
- 1943 - Arne Andersson, athletics
- 1944 - Nils 'Mora-Nisse' Karlsson, cross-country skiing
- 1945 - Claes Egnell, modern pentathlon
- 1946 - Arvid Andersson, weightlifting
- 1947 - Gösta Frändfors, wrestling
- 1948 - William Grut, modern pentathlon
- 1949 - Gert Fredriksson, canoeing
1950s
- 1950 - Lennart Bergelin, tennis
- 1951 - Rune Larsson, athletics
- 1952 - Valter Nyström, athletics
- 1953 - Bertil Antonsson, wrestling
- 1954 - Bengt Nilsson, athletics
- 1955 - Sigvard Ericsson, skating
- 1956 - Lars Hall, modern pentathlon, and Sixten Jernberg, cross-country skiing
- 1957 - Dan Waern, athletics
- 1958 - Richard Dahl, athletics
- 1959 - Agne Simonsson, soccer
1960s
- 1960 - Jane Cederqvist, swimming
- 1961 - Ove Fundin, speedway, and Sten Lundin, motocross
- 1962 - Assar Rönnlund, cross-country skiing
- 1963 - Jonny Nilsson, skating
- 1964 - Rolf Peterson, canoeing
- 1965 - Kjell Johansson, table tennis
- 1966 - Kurt Johansson, shooting
- 1967 - The Fåglum brothers (Erik Pettersson, Gösta Pettersson, Sture Pettersson and Tomas Pettersson), cycling
- 1968 - Toini Gustafsson-Rönnlund, cross-country skiing
- 1969 - Ove Kindvall, soccer
1970s
- 1970 - Gunnar Larsson, swimming
- 1971 - Stellan Bengtsson, table tennis
- 1972 - Ulrika Knape, diving
- 1973 - Rolf Edling, fencing
- 1974 - Björn Borg, tennis
- 1975 - Ingemar Stenmark, alpine skiing
- 1976 - Anders Gärderud, athletics, and Bernt Johansson, cycling
- 1977 - Frank Andersson, wrestling
- 1978 - Björn Borg, tennis, and Ingemar Stenmark, alpine skiing
- 1979 - Malmö FF, soccer
1980s
- 1980 - Thomas Wassberg, cross-country skiing (refused originally but accepted the medal in 2013)
- 1981 - Annichen Kringstad, orienteering
- 1982 - Mats Wilander, tennis
- 1983 - Håkan Carlquist, motocross
- 1984 - Gunde Svan, cross-country skiing
- 1985 - Patrik Sjöberg, athletics
- 1986 - Tomas Johansson, wrestling
- 1987 - Sweden men's national ice hockey team, ice hockey, and Marie-Helene Westin, cross-country skiing
- 1988 - Tomas Gustafson, skating
- 1989 - Sweden national table tennis team, table tennis
1990s
- 1990 - Stefan Edberg, tennis
- 1991 - Pernilla Wiberg, alpine skiing
- 1992 - Jan-Ove Waldner, table tennis
- 1993 - Torgny Mogren, cross-country skiing
- 1994 - Sweden national football team, soccer
- 1995 - Annika Sörenstam, golf
- 1996 - Agneta Andersson and Susanne Gunnarsson, canoeing
- 1997 - Ludmila Engquist, athletics
- 1998 - Sweden national handball team, handball
- 1999 - Tony Rickardsson, speedway
2000s
- 2000 - Lars Frölander, swimming
- 2001 - Per Elofsson, cross-country skiing
- 2002 - Susanne Ljungskog, cycling
- 2003 - Carolina Klüft, athletics
- 2004 - Stefan Holm, athletics
- 2005 - Kajsa Bergqvist, athletics
- 2006 - Anja Pärson, alpine skiing
- 2007 - Anja Pärson, alpine skiing
- 2008 - Jonas Jacobsson, shooting
- 2009 - Helena Jonsson, biathlon
2010s
- 2010 - Swedish men's Olympic 4×10 km relay team (Daniel Rickardsson, Johan Olsson, Anders Södergren, Marcus Hellner), cross-country skiing
- 2011 - Therese Alshammar, swimming[1]
- 2012 - Lisa Nordén, Triathlon
- 2013 - Johan Olsson, cross-country skiing[2]
- 2014 - Swedish women's Olympic 4×5 km relay team (Ida Ingemarsdotter, Emma Wikén, Anna Haag, Charlotte Kalla), cross-country skiing[3]
- 2015 - Sarah Sjöström, swimming[4]
See also
- Radiosportens Jerringpris, a prize established by the sport section of Sveriges Radio where the radio audience votes on the Swedish athlete or team that has made the best sport performance of the year