Erik Bergvall

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Erik Bergvall

Erik Bergvall (born April 7, 1880 in Västerfärnebo , Västmanland province , † February 4, 1950 in Bromma ) was a Swedish water polo player , journalist, author and sports official.

Bergvall took third place with the Swedish team at the 1908 Olympic Games in water polo . In 1906 and 1909 he became the Swedish water polo champion.

Bergvall was one of the founders of the Fédération Internationale de Natation Amateur (FINA) in 1908 and was a board member of the association until 1928. As early as 1904 he founded Svenska Simförbundet , the Swedish swimming federation, of which he was secretary between 1904 and 1908 and of which he was president from 1909 to 1932. Bergvall was a member of the board of the Swedish Sports Association ( Svenska gymnastik och idrottsföreningarnas riksförbund ) from 1903 to 1945. He was an assistant secretary at the Swedish NOK from 1913 to 1924. In 1906 he was already working in a position at a forerunner of today's Swedish NOK.

From 1916 to 1945 he worked as managing director of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium . As a journalist he worked for the sports newspaper Nordiskt Idrottslif from 1900 to 1903 and from 1905 until it was closed in 1920. He was the editor of the Official Report of the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm and was responsible for over 30 books as author or editor. Bergvall also published reports for the Olympic Games from 1920 to 1948, some of them on behalf of the National Olympic Committee of Sweden.

The Bergvall system , which was mainly used at the 1920 Olympic Games, is a form of tournament he devised which is based on the knockout system and which he named after himself. To determine the placements, a further tournament is held in the knockout system in which all teams are allowed to participate, which failed on the immediately better placed.

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SURNAME Bergvall, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish water polo player, journalist, author and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Västerfärnebo , Västmanland, Sweden
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1950
Place of death Bromma