Sture "Stöttan" Gillström (3 December 1908 – 28 January 1978) was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bandy player, known for representing Hammarby IF in all three sports.
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 Sture Gillström in the Hammarby shirt, cerca 1930. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Axel Sture Alexander Gillström 3 December 1908[1] Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 January 1978 (aged 69)[1] Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Early life edit
Sture Gillström grew up in a working-class home in a southern part of Stockholm known as Södermalm. He and his two siblings were raised by the mother, since the father died in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.[1]
Athletic career edit
Football edit
He started to play football with the local club Hammarby IF as a youngster. On 2 August 1925, at the age of 16, Gillström debuted in the senior team, in the first fixture of the Division 2 campaign, and scored two goals as Hammarby won 3–2 against Sundbybergs IK.[3]
Gillström established himself as an important offensive player in Hammarby, competing in the Swedish second tier, and was the club's top scorer during four seasons.[1] In total, Gillström made 159 league appearances for Hammarby, scoring 72 goals, between 1925 and 1936.[2]
He enjoyed a brief stint at the Allsvenskan club AIK, during the season of 1933–34. Back in Hammarby for the 1934–35 season, Gillström scored a hattrick on 5 May 1935 against Västerviks AIS and become the team's top scorer for the season with eight goals.[4]
After definitely leaving Hammarby in 1936, Gillström finished his playing career with Sundbyberg in the Swedish lower divisions.[2]
Ice hockey edit
Gillström also played ice hockey and won two Swedish championships, in 1932 and 1933, with Hammarby,[5][6] the club's first domestic titles.[7]
Bandy edit
Gillström also showed promise as a bandy player, winning the Stockholm junior district championship in 1926 with Hammarby.[3] As a player in the men's senior team, Gillström helped establish Hammarby among the top bandy clubs in Sweden at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s.[1]
Personal life edit
Besides being a sportsman, Gillström worked as a mechanical engineer for ASEA in both Stockholm and Västerås.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f "Det här var Sture "Stöttan" Gillström" (PDF) (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 2000. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ a b c "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (in Swedish). AIK. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ a b "1926" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Hammarby IF:s historia". hifhistoria.se. Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ^ "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Sture Gillström" (in Swedish). Eliteprospects. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "1932" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.