The others are Norway's Stein Eriksen, Borghild Niskin, Inger Bjørnbakken, Astrid Sandvik, King Olav V ( his son ), Erik Håker, Jacob Vaage, King Harald V ( his paternal grandson ), and Queen Sonja ( his paternal granddaughter-in-law ), and Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark.

Maria Johansson ( born May 24, 1965 in Gothenburg, Sweden ) is a former female boxer who is the daughter of Sweden's first and, so far, only, world Heavyweight boxing champion, Ingemar Johansson.

The film received an overwhelmingly positive reception and won four Guldbagge Awards ( Sweden's official film awards ) at the 1999 ceremony.

Sweden's Bjorn Wirdheim won the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship for Drivers

Sweden's row of three successive Championships was broken in Slovenia in 2004, when Germany won despite not being touted as a medal candidate by news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur.

* At the age of 72, Sweden's 100 metre running deer double-shot event champion Oscar Swahn won in the team event to become the oldest Olympic champion ever.

Claes Johanson won Sweden's only gold medal in the light heavyweight competition, with his fellow finalist from Russia, Martin Klein, retiring before fighting Johanson in the final.

In January 1999, Philippoussis and Jelena Dokić won the Hopman Cup for Australia, defeating Sweden's Åsa Carlsson and Jonas Björkman in the final tie.

This unrelenting approach towards drug users, together with generous treatment opportunities have won UNODC's approval and is cited by the UN as one the main reason for Sweden's relatively low drug prevalence rates.

Whilst in Gothenburg, the employees established a team, Örgryte Idrottsällskap and won Sweden's first ever football match.

< i > Bleeding Heart Square </ i > won Sweden's Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar, in 2009.

Sweden's Carolina Klüft had won the 2003 World Championship, becoming only the third woman over 7, 000 points, with Eunice Barber, a native of Sierra Leone now representing France, placing second.

The Swedish translation of the novel ( Änglarösten ) won Sweden's Martin Beck Award for the best crime novel in translation.

The race was won by Ferrari's Argentine driver Carlos Reutemann, with Sweden's Ronnie Peterson, driving the revolutionary Ground effect Lotus 78-Ford, on pole position with a time of 1: 40. 45.

Having been named Sweden's best singer in 2000, he has also won awards for his lyrics and for the band's live performances.

In the end, it was Sweden, skipped by Anette Norberg who won her first championship, and Sweden's first since 1999, with a win in the final over the United States, skipped by Cassandra Johnson.

Sweden failed to win any of their matches at that tournament, but after scoring against Brazil, Brolin was soon signed by Italian club AC Parma for £ 1. 2 million pounds ( out of a possible 12 buyers ), and also won his first Guldbollen as Sweden's footballer of the year.

Things improved in Sweden's next game with Russia, with Brolin playing behind Martin Dahlin and the towering Kennet Andersson, as Sweden won 3 – 1.

Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a longtime collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions.

In 1959, both the football team and Djurgårdens IF's hockey team won their respective Swedish Championships of Sweden's two most popular sports, a remarkable happening.

On 4th August 2012, Spirig won Gold in the Olympic Women's Triathlon, winning a close race in a photo finish with Sweden's Lisa Nordén.

He has performed for royalty, won awards for his artistic efforts and shared the stage with many of Sweden's most beloved artists.

Jönsson won Guldpucken ( Sweden's player of the year ) in 1997.

She won a best newcomer award in Sweden's Grammy awards in 1996.

In 1989, he won the Guldbollen as Sweden's Footballer of the Year.

In the decade which followed, artists who began their careers outside of the progressive milieu, such as Sweden's Tiamat ( originally a death / doom act ), Green Carnation and Opeth ( both formed in the death metal mould ), developed a progressive sound and became identified with the progressive metal genre.

Braathens bought strategic ownerships in both Saga Tours and Sweden's Atlas Resor to secure their part of the charter market.

Winston Churchill claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues and played both sides for profit, a criticism mimicked in criticism towards Sweden's policy towards the German occupation of Denmark and Norway upheld partly by transportation reinforcement through Swedish territory, sanctioned by Hansson's cabinet.

Amid high food prices in 1972, Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare developed the idea of " basic foods " that were both cheap and nutritious, and " supplemental foods " that added nutrition missing from the basic foods.

The Swedish situation was further weakened by being at war with France and Denmark, both of whom threatened Sweden's possessions with a joint invasion of 45, 000 troops in Denmark ( under French general Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ) and a further 36, 000 in Norway.

He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party and his uninterrupted tenure of 23 years as head of government is a record for parliamentary democracies, with the popular expression " Sweden's longest Prime Minister " referring to both his physical stature and tenure ( the Swedish word lång meaning both long and tall ).

It is said that an area ( of both Sweden and Norway ) corresponding to 9 % of Sweden's surface area can be seen from the summit, which approximates to more than 40, 000 km² – almost the size of the Netherlands.

The reasons behind this last provision were both internal and external: British citizens were forbidden to engage in trade on Asia and within Sweden suspicions ran high against foreigners, as they were thought to siphon off Sweden's riches.

The British invasion of Norway and Germany's counter-attack on, and occupation of both Norway and Denmark, coupled with the fact that Finland was battling the Soviets, made Sweden's position extremely tenuous, in that countries on both sides of the European conflict were poised on Sweden's borders and could potentially strike at any moment.

Frostenson is one of Sweden's foremost poets, of a style both experimental and archaic.

Sweden's empire was also expanding having seized Livonia as well as Pomerania, both important sources of timber.

The English and the Dutch both rejected Sweden's right to their colony, but the Dutch had greater reason for concern since they had already discovered that the Delaware River began above the 42nd parallel north and the extent of their North American claim.

Hedman was chosen for the Swedish squad at the Euro 2000 where he played all Sweden's matches and conceded goals from Bart Goor and Emile Mpenza against Belgium and from Luigi Di Biagio and Alessandro Del Piero against Italy ( both lost 2-1 ).

Brava has performed in numerous Christmas concerts over the years, most notably headlining Sweden's original Christmas tour Julkonserten both in 2004 and 2008, touring in concert halls and arenas all around the country.

For example, Sweden's biggest morning paper " Dagens Nyheter " ( Daily News ) wrote: " Professional, sure and certain LP-debut ... low key but self-sure personality with sprinkles of both temperament, humor and tenderness.

The history of Sweden's railways has included both state-owned and private railways.