Spårvägens SF, Spårvägens Simförening, is 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....

 swim team based in western Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. It is a part of Spårvägens GoIF

Spårvägens GoIF

Spårvägens GoIF, Stockholms Spårvägars Gymnastik och Idrottsförening, was founded in 1919 by employees of Stockholms Spårvägar. Today the club has 15 departments of sports and a total of 5,500 members...

 and started in 1946 by the Swedish champion on 200m and 400m Breaststroke Gunnar Sulling and Gunnar 'Hacke' Gustafsson for the employees of Stockholms Spårvägar

Stockholms Spårvägar

AB Stockholms Spårvägar , was a company founded in 1915 and owned by the City of Stockholm to coordinate and operate public transportation within the City...

. Since the late 1950s the club has been open for persons not working for Stockholms Spårvägar

Stockholms Spårvägar

AB Stockholms Spårvägar , was a company founded in 1915 and owned by the City of Stockholm to coordinate and operate public transportation within the City...

. During the 1970s it was a farm club for the competitive team SKK-Spårvägen consisting of Spårvägen and Stockholms KK

Stockholms KK

Stockholms KK is a Swedish swim club from Stockholm founded in 1895. They compete in swimming and water polo. The most famous swimmers of SKK is the twin brothers Arne Borg and Åke Borg. SKK organizes yearly an invitational meet named after Arne Borg, Arne Borgs minne.-Swimmers:*Arne Borg*Åke...

. The best swimmer in modern time is former world record holder Emma Igelström

Emma Igelström

Emma Igelström is a former breaststroke swimmer and European record holder from Sweden. She competed in the 2000 Olympics She quit her career because of Bulimia nervosa.-Long course :...

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Swimmers

• Anthony Ervin
  Anthony Ervin
  Anthony Lee Ervin is a former American swimmer. He has won two Olympic medals and two World Championship golds....
  
   (2006)
• Anders Holmertz
  Anders Holmertz
  Anders Holmertz is a Swedish retired swimmer who was a leader in freestyle races in the 1980s and at the beginning of 1990s, though often missing personal success. He also settled a record in the 400 m freestyle...
  
  
• Mikael Holmertz
  Mikael Holmertz
  Mikael Holmertz is a former Swedish swimmer that specialised in butterfly and brother to Swedish Olympic silver medal winner Anders Holmertz. He won two national short course titles in 100 m butterfly representing Motala SS. After his active career he became head coach in Linköpings ASS and...
  
  
• Emma Igelström
  Emma Igelström
  Emma Igelström is a former breaststroke swimmer and European record holder from Sweden. She competed in the 2000 Olympics She quit her career because of Bulimia nervosa.-Long course :...
  
  
• Louise Jöhncke
  Louise Jöhncke
  Louise Jöhncke is a former freestyle swimmer from Sweden, who competed for her native country at two consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. Her biggest successes came on short course ; she won the world title as a member of the Swedish relay Team in the 4×200 m freestyle at the 1999 FINA...
  
  
• Johanna Sjöberg
  Johanna Sjöberg
  Johanna Sjöberg is a former international swimmer from Sweden, who won her first medal in 1997 by the European Swimming Championships in Sevilla: a bronze in the 100 m butterfly.-References:*...
  
  

External links

• Spårvägens SF's Official Homepage