Robert Carrick

Robert Carrick (* 1873 ; † 1957 ) was a British - Swedish athlete and sports official. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern sport in Sweden. In 2009 he was inducted into the SFS Hall Of Fame for his services to Swedish football .

Career

Born in England, Carrick came to Gävle as a child because his father settled there professionally. After completing his school career in England, he returned to Sweden in the late 1880s to work in his father's company. After working as an auditor for Gefleborgs Enskilda Bank , he founded his own company for wood products in 1912. He also ran a brick factory and an agency for the insurance company Skandia .

Carrick joined Gefle IF in the early 1890s and competed in various sports for the club, on whose board he was represented from 1891. In athletics , gymnastics , skiing , figure skating and speed skating , rowing , sailing and cycling , he was soon one of the best athletes in Sweden and, for example, won the national championship over 100 and 110 meter hurdles. In the middle of the decade he was one of the initiators of a soccer team in the club. As head of the team, he established modern training methods and between 1899 and 1902 led them to triple triumph in the Rosenska Cup , one of the most important football competitions in Sweden at that time. In the first participations in 1905 and 1906 he reached the semi-finals of the Svenska Mästerskapet with the team .

Until 1928 he was on the board of Gefle IF. Between 1903 and 1908 he was also represented on the board of the Riksidrottsförbundet . In 1922 he took over the post of British Vice Consul in Gävle.

Web links

• Carrick on the website of Gelfe IF ( Memento from June 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• gd.se: "GIF: are i gott sällskap"