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The most important all-embracing organisations for sports in Sweden are the Swedish Sports Confederation, and the Swedish Olympic Committee. In total over 2 million people (about 20% of the total population) are members of a sports club. The sports with most participants are football, floorball, equestrian sports, handball, golf, gymnasticsand ...
Sweden is the country with the longest Olympic Games medalling streak in history, having earned medals at every Olympic game since 1908. Sweden hosted the Games on one occasion, the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. The equestrian events of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne were held in Stockholm, due to quarantine reasons.
Participating nations at the opening ceremony of the 1912 Games in Stockholm. This is a list of nations, as represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs), that have participated in the Summer Olympic Games between 1896 and 2024. As of the 2024 Games, all of the current 206 NOCs have participated in at least two editions of the Olympic Games.
Avicii Arena, originally known as Stockholm Globe Arena and previously as Ericsson Globe, [ 2 ] but commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen ( pronounced [ˈɡlǔːbɛn] ⓘ; lit.'the Globe' ), [ 3 ] is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockholm, Sweden . The arena represents the Sun in the Sweden ...
Stockholm. / 59.32944°N 18.06861°E / 59.32944; 18.06861. Stockholm ( Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː (h)ɔlm] ⓘ) [ 10] is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, [ 11] with 1.6 million in the urban area, and ...
Melodifestivalen final (2013–2020, 2022–present) Nationalarenan, known as Strawberry Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a retractable roof multi-purpose stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Located next to the lake Råstasjön in Solna, just north of the City Centre, it is the largest stadium in Scandinavia. Since its opening, the venue has served ...
Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården(pronounced[ˈjʉ̌ː(r)ɡɔɳ]or[ˈjʉ̂ːrˌɡoːɖɛn]ⓘ) or, more officially, Kungliga Djurgården(Swedishfor 'The [Royal] Game Park'), is an island in central Stockholm, Sweden. Djurgården is home to historical buildings and monuments, museums, galleries, the amusement park Gröna Lund, the open ...
AIK (1912–1936) Djurgårdens IF (women) (2015–) Stockholm Olympic Stadium ( Swedish: Stockholms Olympiastadion ), most often called Stockholms stadion or (especially locally) simply Stadion, is a stadium in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by architect Torben Grut, it was opened in 1912; its original use was as a venue for the 1912 Olympic Games.