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Sven Tumba

1931 - 2011

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Sven Tumba (born Sven Olof Gunnar Johansson; 28 August 1931 – 1 October 2011) was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 1960s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf and became Swedish champion in waterskiing. Johansson first became known as "Tumba" in the 1950s since there were other players with the same last name, and he grew up in the Swedish town of Tumba. In October 1960 he married his wife Mona, and five years later he, along with Mona, legally changed his family name to Tumba. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sven Tumba is the 1,494th most popular soccer player (down from 1,194th in 2019), the 489th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 411th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sven Tumba ranks 1,494 out of 21,273. Before him are Dominique Rocheteau, Zequinha, Serginho Chulapa, Gilberto Silva, Danilo Alvim, and Takashi Umezawa. After him are John Aston Sr., Kees Kist, Pietro Ferraris, Juan Manuel Asensi, Zoltán Halmay, and Nils Axelsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Sven Tumba ranks 240. Before him are Ingvar Wixell, Boris Pankin, Robert Morris, Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, Elliott Belgrave, and Robert Enrico. After him are Shunichiro Okano, Ernst Degner, León Febres Cordero, Galina Zybina, Bernard Panafieu, and Jean Béliveau. Among people deceased in 2011, Sven Tumba ranks 178. Before him are Clarence Clemons, Attilio Pavesi, Ingvar Wixell, Mutassim Gaddafi, Bernd Eichinger, and Ali-Reza Pahlavi. After him are María Mercader, Romuald Klim, Norio Ohga, James Hillman, Valery Rozhdestvensky, and Bhupen Hazarika.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven Tumba ranks 489 out of 1,879. Before him are Tommy Körberg (1948), Jeanna Bauck (1840), Carl Gustaf Ekman (1872), Conny Torstensson (1949), Sigge Parling (1930), and Laurentius Petri (1499). After him are Nils Axelsson (1906), Carl Swartz (1858), Henri Saint Cyr (1902), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883), and Gustaf Cederström (1845).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Sven Tumba ranks 29. Before him are Björn Nordqvist (1942), Erik Nilsson (1916), Bengt Gustavsson (1928), Knut Kroon (1906), Conny Torstensson (1949), and Sigge Parling (1930). After him are Nils Axelsson (1906), Roland Sandberg (1946), Orvar Bergmark (1930), Bertil Nordahl (1917), Tomas Brolin (1969), and Martin Dahlin (1968).

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