The last time a football team won the Jerring Prize was the men's national team after winning bronze at the World Cup in 1994. Now Mjällby has a chance for the Allsvenskan gold medal - despite the fact that the prize's statutes stipulate that the achievement must have been made against international opposition.
SportsWith an eye on future Olympics, 29 swimmers will get the chance at the European Short Course Championships in Poland in December. For many of them, it will be their debut in a senior championship.
SportsEight swimmers are ready for the "doping Olympics". Swedish swimming star Sarah Sjöström is not happy with this. What I wish is that they don't get so much media attention because they don't deserve it, she tells SVT Sport.
SportsEnvironmental and climate researcher Johan Rockström is appointed "Swede of the year", an award given by the organisation Swedes in the world.
SwedenKate Douglass continues to push the boundaries in the swimming world. The 23-year-old American wrote herself into the history books when she as the first woman ever went under 50 seconds on 100 meters freestyle on short course.
SportsMollie O'Callaghan has written herself into the history books. The Australian is the first woman to swim 200 meters freestyle on short course under 1.50.
SportsSarah Sjöström and several other swimming stars will be compensated in a big dispute with the International Swimming Federation. This after a settlement in an American court.
SportsSarah Sjöström does not intend to rush back to swimming after her dramatic childbirth. But she still believes in a possible comeback as early as next summer. Maybe it will be a championship comeback at the European Championship in Paris, says the swimming star to Dagens Nyheter.
SportsSwedish swimming star Sarah Sjöström has become a mother. Here are five other superstars who have given birth in the middle of their sports career – and come back.
SportsSarah Sjöström and her husband Johan de Jong Skierus have become parents. Sjöström gave birth to son Adrian in the ambulance during a chaotic delivery. "I really did not think I would survive", writes Sjöström on Instagram.
SportsIt was not five gold medals for Summer McIntosh, but a tie of Sarah Sjöström's record of five World Championship medals at the swimming championships in Singapore.
SportsIt will be no gold medal to show off to Sarah Sjöström. Sara Junevik missed the final on 50 meters butterfly in the World Championship after a hundredth drama. - It feels a bit hopeless, really sad actually, she says.
SportsAn entire swimming world is amazed by the twelve-year-old Chinese super talent Yu Zidi. But there are dark sides to making a commitment at such a young age. It is definitely a risk, says Sarah Sjöström's coach Antonio Lutula.
SportsSara Junevik struck with a strong performance notice directly on 50 meter butterfly in the World Championship in Singapore. With her second fastest race in her career, 25,59, she advanced to the semifinal with sixth time. It was relaxed, exactly the feeling I wanted to have, she says.
SportsSummer McIntosh swam to her third World Championship gold. But the anger was evident after missing the world record on 200 meter butterfly by 18 hundredths. I messed it up the last 15 meters, she says.
SportsIt was the Olympic Games announcement that changed everything. Sara Junevik, 25, can put all focus on the favorite event 50 meter butterfly. It will give results in the World Championship. I really want to be involved and fight, says the playful one who has received a clear message from Sarah Sjöström.
SportsKatie Ledecky won her sixth gold on 1,500 meters freestyle in the World Championship. But the American star went all in on the world record the last 250 meters.
SportsVictor Johansson is the shining exception. Otherwise, all Swedes have been knocked out in the trials after three days of World Championship. We are not here just to swim in the morning (trials), says national team captain Martina Aronsson.
SportsTwelve-year-old Chinese prodigy Yu Zidi was just six hundredths away from a bronze sensation on 200 meters medley. The gold winner, on the other hand, was no surprise: Summer McIntosh, 18, took home her second World Championship gold in two days.
SportsWorld Championship bronze and Olympic Games eighth place last year – eliminated directly in the trials on 100 meter butterfly in Singapore. Louise Hansson cried after the World Championship miss. It felt like I walked into a wall, she says.
SportsLast year, Louise Hansson took bronze in the World Championship – this year, there are probably only two medals to compete for. American star Gretchen Walsh, 22, is "given" for the gold. She is one in a million, says the Swede.
SportsUnderage sensation Summer McIntosh set three world records in five days earlier this year. In the World Championship, the swimming star from Canada is chasing five gold medals and can equal Sarah Sjöström's record in the number of simultaneous world records. I want to put on a show, says the 18-year-old ahead of the championship in Singapore.
SportsThe void is enormous. Without Sarah Sjöström in the World Championship, Sweden may for the first time in 39 years miss a medal. Something the national team captain Martina Aronsson takes for granted. I do not think we will see a Swedish medal here, but I wish I will be proven wrong, says Aronsson.
SportsSarah Sjöström will miss the World Championship as she is soon to become a mother. But even if the swimming star had not been expecting a child, she would have declined a World Championship start for the first time in her career. It was heading in the wrong direction, she says about the championship workload.
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