Egil Henrik Bjerklund (5 September 1933 – 29 September 2022) was a Norwegian
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
player. He played for the
Norway national team and participated at the
Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held i ...
in
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, ...
and in
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
.
[ He was awarded ]Gullpucken Gullpucken ( translit. ''the Golden puck'') is awarded by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation (NIHF) to the best Norwegian ice hockey player each year. The award is subject to consideration which means it is not necessarily awarded every year. ...
as the best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1961.[
Bjerklund died on 29 September 2022.][
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1933 births
2022 deaths
Ice hockey people from Oslo
Ice hockey players at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Norway men's national ice hockey team coaches
Norwegian ice hockey defencemen
Norwegian ice hockey left wingers
Olympic ice hockey players for Norway
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