Linus Pettersson (born 13 May 1987) is a Swedish

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

player who currently plays for

Sandvikens AIK Sandvikens AIK (commonly known as SAIK) a sports club in Sandviken, Sweden. The bandy section plays its home games in the Göransson Arena in Sandviken. They play in a black outfit. History Sandvikens AIK was founded on 16 March 1901. Originall ...

as a defender.

Career

Club career

Pettersson is a youth product of

IFK Motala IFK Motala is a sports club in Motala, Sweden, founded in 1932 and practicing bandy and soccer. IFK Motala's bandy team currently plays in Elitserien, and home games are played at the Motala Isstadion Motala () is a locality and the seat of Mota ...

and has represented

Sandviken Sandviken is a locality and the seat of Sandviken Municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden with 39,234 inhabitants in 2019. It is situated about 25 km west of Gävle and lies approximately 190 km north of Stockholm. The rail journey ...

and

Zorky Zorky (russian: Зоркий) is a bandy club based in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. Its team currently plays in the Russian Bandy Super League, the top tier of the Russian bandy championship. The club was founded in 1954. Zorky have ha ...

International career

Pettersson was part of Swedish World Champions teams of

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, and

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Honours

Country

; Sweden: *

Bandy World Championship The Bandy World Championship is a competition between bandy-playing nations' men's teams. The tournament is administrated by the Federation of International Bandy. It is distinct from the Bandy World Cup, a club competition, and from the W ...

: 2010, 2012, 2017

References

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* * 1987 births Living people Swedish bandy players Sandvikens AIK players Expatriate bandy players in Russia Zorky Krasnogorsk players Sweden international bandy players Bandy World Championship-winning players {{Sweden-bandy-bio-stub