Sven Axel Tankred Eklund (3 December 1916 – 6 June 1997) was a Swedish curler and sports executive. He was the alternate on the team that represented Sweden during the 1963 Scotch Cup, the World Men's Curling Championship at the time. He was also a former president of the

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and is a

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inductee. Eklund curled out of the Åredalens Curlingklubb in

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, Sweden with teammates John-Allan Månsson, Curt Jonsson,

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, and Magnus Berge when he represented Sweden at the 1963 Scotch Cup. He later became the captain of the Swedish national curling team, and he also became president of the International Curling Association, now known as the

. He was also active in the curling club Fjällgårdens CK. At the national level, he was a four-time Swedish men's champion curler (1952, 1954, 1955, 1959), played at third position. In 1966 he was awarded with the ''Svenska Curlingförbundets Guldmedalj'' by the Swedish Curling Association. In 1966 he was inducted into the

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. In 1982 he was awarded with the Elmer Freytag Award from the World Curling Federation. In 1968 Eklund produced the Swedish curling manual ''Curling''."Curling".
Libris.kb.se. Retrieved 16 February 2014.

Teams

Personal life

Eklund was the father of actress

Britt Ekland Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including roles in ''The Double Man (1967 film), The Double Man'' (1967), ''The Night They ...

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* Swedish male curlers Swedish curling champions 1916 births 1997 deaths Curlers from Stockholm Swedish sports executives and administrators 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-curling-bio-stub