IFK Mora
IFK Mora is a Swedish alliance club from Mora , which is composed of six sports clubs specializing in different sports . The associated cross-country skiing club initiated the first Vasa run in 1922 and is the home club of internationally known athletes who were among the medal winners at the Winter Olympics . The football club played two seasons in the second highest Swedish league.
history
IFK Mora was founded in 1909 as a local branch of the Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna sports association , after IF Sport had been operated in the Engelbrecht ski club and the successor club Mora from 1896 . The club existed as a multi-sport club until 1992. Subsequently, the individual departments broke up as independent clubs, which were constituted under the umbrella of the alliance club.
Cross-country skiing
Nordic skiing has been the focus of the club since the beginning. At the beginning of the 20th century, club members achieved their first sporting successes. At the beginning of March 1922, the association ordered the first Wasalauf, which took place on the 19th of the month and was won by Ernst Alm . In the following years Anders Ström was the most important athlete of the club, on the one hand as the club's first Olympian to take part in the 1928 Winter Olympics and on the other hand, as the club's first runner to win the Vasa race in 1931. In the following years, however, Nils Karlsson put him in the shade. A total of nine times winner of the Wasaluaf between 1943 and 1953, he won Olympic gold at the 1948 Winter Olympics and was world champion over the 50-kilometer distance in the same year. The club repeatedly presented winners of the Wasalauf and participants in the Olympic Games such as Lars-Arne Bölling or Anna Haag .
Soccer
At the beginning of the 20th century, the members of the Engelbrecht ski club decided to include football in their program. The club then changed its name to Mora IF . The team played for a long time in the lower class area of the Swedish league pyramid, in 1945 the club missed the promotion games to the second division as second behind Långshyttans AIK . Two years later she was the victim of a league reform and relegated to the fourth division. After the club had meanwhile started fifth class, the club returned to the third division for the 1975 season. Quickly established in the top flight of the season Västra Svealand , the team dominated the 1982 season. In the promotion games against Karlslunds IF they missed promotion to the second division with two defeats. In the following three years, the club reached second place twice in the table again in 1986 as first in the promotion round. This time he prevailed against IFK Kalix and rose to the second division for the first time.
IFK Mora placed in his first second division season before IFK Västerås and Degerfors IF on the last non-relegation place. In the 1988 season, however, the team won only two of their 26 season games and rose as bottom of the table together with Skellefteå AIK at the end of the season. Also in the third division she played against relegation, which took place in 1990. Initially still in the front of the table, the club slipped increasingly and rose again in 1998 to the fifth division, but managed to rise again two years later. After the direct relegation, the club crashed first into the sixth division, later also into the seventh division. At the end of the 2010 season they returned to the sixth division.
Orienteering
Well-known runners of the club were or are Radka Brozkova , Graham Gristwood , Martin Johansson and Michal Smola . In 1948 the men's relay won the Swedish relay championship with Gunnar Mattsson-Frost, Gunnar Larsson and Lennart Berg.