In October, he won at Singapore and reached the final in Beijing, losing to the Swede Magnus Norman.

Söderling became the first Swede to reach the French Open final since his coach Magnus Norman in 2000.

There, he beat Juan Mónaco 6 – 3, 7 – 6 ( 4 ) for the title, becoming the first Swede since his coach Magnus Norman ( in 2000 ) to win the singles title at the Swedish Open.

Another notable building in the square is an ancient Gothic warehouse called Alter Schwede ( The Old Swede ), erected around 1380.

Several Swede regiments were surrounded in a classic Cannae-style battle as Bauer's Russian cavalry swarmed around the Swedish army and attacked the Swedish rear guard.

ESCP Europe has been international since its start: The class of 1824 with a total of 118 students counted around 30 % foreigners with 7 Spanish, 2 Havanians, 5 Brazilians, 5 Dutch, 4 Germans, 2 Greeks, 2 Portuguese, 2 Americans, 2 Chilians, 1 Savoyard, 1 Italian, 1 Swede, 1 Russian and 1 Haïtian.

The Swede Garðar Svavarsson was one the first Scandinavian to settle in Iceland around 860 CE.

He was quickly touted as the only Swede who could follow in the footsteps of Stefan Edberg and Björn Borg, and was ranked as high as World No. 4 ( which he attained in 1999 ) in the ATP Rankings, reaching the final of the Australian Open the same year.

In the same vein, the distinctive refrain added to Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede, Ooga-ooga-ooga-chucka would start repeating and listeners would never know when it would end.

At that time, a friend " Swede " Hazlet was applying to the Naval Academy and urged Dwight to apply to the school, since no tuition was required.

The role of The Swede was written for Peter Stormare, but he could not be cast since he was playing Hamlet at the time.

When Olaf heard that Svein Forkbeard and Olaf the Swede had formed an alliance, he was angered and decided the time had come for an attack.

At that time it was not an elite event and was won by the relatively unknown Swede, Jaan Eslon ( on tie-break from the Argentine Roberto Debarnot ).

Because of his outstanding services, Sven Hedin was raised to the untitled nobility by King Oskar II in 1902, the last time any Swede was to receive a charter of nobility.

At the time, Lotus was experiencing financial difficulties and reports suggested that Shadow and Lotus would swap Pryce and Swede Ronnie Peterson.

In 1997 National Geographic Magazine published Mattias Klum ’ s photographs for the first time, which made him the first Swede to have his work on the cover, then and still as one of National Geographic ’ s youngest contributors.

Chris Amon, Mario Andretti, Jack Brabham, John Cannon, Mark Donohue, Vic Elford, George Follmer, Masten Gregory, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, Phil Hill, Denny Hulme, Jacky Ickx, Parnelli Jones, Roger McCluskey, Bruce McLaren, Paul Newman, Jackie Oliver, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Pedro Rodríguez, Swede Savage, Jo Siffert, John Cordts, David Hobbs, Jackie Stewart and John Surtees all drove Can-Am cars at one time or another.

At the time a hot prospect for the future, he was in direct competition with Swede Pär Zetterberg and Enzo Scifo, two players whose talent was already confirmed ; eventually he became a first-team regular, and then the maestro of the team after the departures of the pair in the late 1990s.

Lundgren's best ranking was 23rd in the world, but at the time he was the only 7th best Swede behind Mats Wilander, Stefan Edberg, Anders Järryd, Joakim Nyström, Henrik Sundström and Jan Gunnarsson.

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

In an article for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, Hill wrote: " Owing to the prominence of Mr Morrison, there had to be a ' goat ' and the undersigned being, as they thought, a friendless tramp, a Swede, and worst of all, an IWW, had no right to live anyway, and was therefore duly selected to be ' the goat '.

The legendary sagas have influenced later writers, for instance the Swede Esaias Tegnér, who wrote Frithiof's saga, based on the Friðþjófs saga ins frœkna.

Caricaturing the attempts by the Swede Olaus Rudbeck to pronounce Swedish the original language of mankind, Kempe wrote a scathing parody where Adam spoke Danish, God was a Swede, while the serpent was a francophone.

Alexander Orlov ( born Leiba Feldbin ; code-name Swede ), Philby's controller in Madrid, who had once met him in Perpignan, France, with the bulge of an automatic rifle clearly showing through his raincoat, also defected.

He then tried a " big dumb Swede ", which was also rejected.

An early neoclassicist in sculpture was the Swede Johan Tobias Sergel, and John Flaxman was also, or mainly, a sculptor, mostly producing severely classical reliefs that are comparable in style to his prints ; he also designed and modelled neoclassical ceramics for Josiah Wedgwood for several years.

In 1993, many of the biggest individuals and bands in Congo's history were brought together for an event that helped to revitalize Congolese music, and also jumpstarted the careers of popular bands like Swede Swede.

He also became the first man to fly a balloon over the North Pole in 2000, a trip that emulated the ill-fated attempt by Salomon August Andrée, a Swede, to fly to the North Pole in the 19th century and which he also described in a book called At The Mercy of the Wind.

Edberg also won the tennis tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics when the sport was an exhibition event and partnered with fellow Swede Anders Järryd to reach the final of the US Open.

Edberg also won the Australian Open and US Open men's doubles titles in 1987 ( partnering fellow Swede Anders Järryd ).

He then tried a " big dumb Swede ," which was also rejected.

Some foreign entrants for the RAC had also planned to take part in the 1st international rallycross at Lydden Circuit, on Saturday, 25 November 1967, but went home immediately after the rally had been cancelled at the eleventh hour on the evening of 17 November, and was replaced by a single special stage ( won by Swede Erik Carlsson in a Saab 96 V4 ) for the sake of the disappointed television companies.

At the start Andretti retained the first place, while Lauda got ahead of Watson ; on the second lap he was passed by a fast Riccardo Patrese in the Arrows, and on the third he was passed by the other Lotus of Ronnie Peterson too ; the Swede also passed Patrese, but had later to back off due to a tyre puncture.

He received the Nils V. " Swede " Nelson Award given to " best, most academically talented " football player in New England, and also the Harvard University Male Athlete of the Year following his senior season.

White also joined Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, touring through South America in late 2001, while Attack ( 2002 ) was White's first studio effort with the Swede.

A different approach to the walker is the rollator, also called wheeled walker, invented by the Swede Aina Wifalk in 1978, herself a polio sufferer.

Faiers was also a founding member of the Canadian Poetry Association, with James Deahl, Shaunt Basmajian and Wayne Ray and a founding member of Haiku Canada, with Eric Amann, George Swede, Margaret Saunders and others.

Connoiseurs of the game also rate Swede Henrik Sundström's one-handed backhand as technically magnificent and as powerful as many forehands, but Sundström's career was cut short by injury,

The character is also closely related to the common and quite nationalistic jokes of the three Scandinavian archetypes, the Norwegian, the Swede and the Dane.

Keller had constructed his brewery over artesian wells in a section of the Phalen Creek valley in St. Paul, Minnesota known as Swede Hollow.

A Swede of Greek descent, he has been known for his speed and precision since his mid-80s stint with King Diamond.