Sven Tumba

Sven Tumba (born Sven Olof Gunnar Johansson; 27 August 1931 – 1 October 2011) was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 60s and also represented Sweden in football as well as golf.

Johansson first became known as "Tumba" in the 1950s since there were other players with the name Johansson, and Sven grew up in the Swedish town of Tumba. In 1965 he legally changed his family name to Tumba.

After his retirement from hockey, he became a serious golfer, a golf course designer and ambassador to the game of golf, even officially introducing the game of golf to the former Soviet Union. He died on 1 October 2011 after being on the Danderyds sjukhus hospital for three months due to an infection in the hip. He was subsequently embraced prior to the Elitserien games that were played that day.

Tumba played for the Swedish club Djurgårdens IF from 1950 to 1966, winning eight Swedish Championships and leading the league top goal scorer three years. He had a lengthy international career, playing for Sweden at 14 IIHF World Championships, four Winter Olympics, named best forward at the 1957 and 1962 World Championships and top scorer at the 1964 Winter Olympics. He also captained the national team. Djurgården has retired number 5 in his honor.

Tumba still holds the Swedish scoring record of 186 goals (in 245 games) for the Swedish national team, the Three Crowns.

In 1997 he was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame and was in 1999 awarded the "Best Swedish Ice-hockey Player of All Times", outvoting prominent players such as Peter Forsberg and Mats Sundin.

Tumba was the first European player to attend an NHL training camp, with the Boston Bruins in 1957.

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• 1950-63: 8-time Swedish Champion (1954, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63)
• 1952: Olympic bronze, Oslo, Norway.
• 1953: World Champion, Zurich-Basel, Switzerland.
• 1954: World Championship Bronze, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1956: Olympic 5th place, Cortina, Italy.
• 1957: Test player for Boston Bruins. He was offered a contract, but turned it down, since he then would have become ineligible to play for the Swedish national team.
• 1957: World Champion, Moscow, USSR (also nominated best forward.)
• 1958: World Championship Bronze, Oslo, Norway.
• 1960: Olympic 5th place, Squaw Valley, USA.
• 1962: World Champion, Colorado Springs, USA (also nominated best forward.)
• 1963: World Championship Silver, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1964: Olympic Silver, Innsbruck, Austria.
• 1965: World Championship Bronze, Tampere, Rauma, Finland.
• 1989: Nominated the best Swedish ice hockey player throughout time..

Leģendārais zviedru hokejists Svens Tumba naktī uz sestdienu mira slimnīcā 80 gadu vecumā, vēsta zviedru mediji.  

Tumba ilgstoši cīnījās ar prostatas vēzi.

Jūhansons, kurš 1965.gadā uzvārdu nomainīja uz Tumba par godu savai dzimtajai pilsētai, kļuva par pirmo hokejistu no Eiropas, kurš uzaicināts uz Nacionālo hokeja līgu (NHL).

Zīmīgi, ka astoņkārtējais Zviedrijas čempions hokejā Tumba kļuva arī par valsts futbola čempionāta uzvarētāju.

Hokejista karjeras laikā Tumba savā īpašumā ieguva sudraba un bronzas olimpiskās medaļas, kā arī ar Zviedrijas izlasi trīs reizes triumfēja pasaules čempionātā.

Tumbu 1957. un 1962.gadā atzina par pasaules čempionāta labāko uzbrucēju.

Tumbam vēl joprojām pieder rekords gūto vārtu skaita ziņā Zviedrijas valstsvienības labā. Zviedrijas izlasē Tumba kopumā aizvadīja 245 spēles, kurās izcēlās ar 186 precīziem metieniem.

Pēc sportista karjeras beigām Tumba aktīvi spēlēja golfu.

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