Erik Abrahamsson (Erik Adolf Efraim "Erik Aber" Abrahamsson 28 January 1898 – 19 May 1965) was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 athlete who competed mainly in the men's long jump

Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

 during his career.

Abrahamsson started playing bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 with Södertälje SK

Södertälje SK

Södertälje Sportklubb is a Swedish professional ice hockey club playing in HockeyAllsvenskan. Södertälje were charter members of Elitserien when the league was founded in 1975 and have since played 24 seasons in the league...

 (SSK), in 1914. Later he picked up ice hockey in 1921 and played with AIK and IFK Stockholm

IFK Stockholm

IFK Stockholm is multi-sports club in Stockholm, Sweden. It is most known for its football team.- Background :The club was formed 1 February 1895 as IF Kamraterna by two young students, Louis Zettersten and Pehr Ehnemark, and was the first IFK club...

, and also in the Swedish national ice hockey team. He won European championships

Ice Hockey European Championships

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 1921

Ice Hockey European Championship 1921

The Ice Hockey European Championship 1921 was the sixth edition of the ice hockey tournament for European countries associated to the International Ice Hockey Federation ....

. Together with his older brother Carl

Carl Abrahamsson

Karl Gustaf Emanuel "Carl, Calle Aber" Abrahamsson was a Swedish track and field athletic, bandy and ice hockey player who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics. He was also a coach and captain, mainly in the Swedish club Södertälje SK.Abrahamsson participated in building the bandy section of...

, Abrahamsson managed to convince the Södertälje SK board of directors to incorporate ice hockey in the club in 1925. The club is still a major team in Sweden's major league, Elitserien

Elitserien

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. Later, in the same year 1925, SSK played in the Swedish championship final for the first time, and SSK won the title as Swedish champions, with Abrahamsson in the team and after his brother scored the gaming winning goal against Västerås SK.

Abrahamsson competed for Sweden in the 1920 Summer Olympics

1920 Summer Olympics

The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium....

 held in Antwerp, Belgium

Belgium

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, in the long jump where he won the bronze medal. He also won the Swedish championships in the long jump three times, 1921–1923.