Sven Tumba

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One of Swedens greatest sport icons Sven Tumba together with the legendary Jack Nicklaus.

Sven Tumba Johansson was one of the most prominent Swedish ice hockey players of the 1950s and 60s. He also represented Sweden in football as well as golf.

Johansson first became known as “Tumba” in the 1950s since there were other players with the same last name, and he grew up in the Swedish town of Tumba. In October 1960 he married his wife Mona, and five years later he, along with Mona, legally changed his family name to Tumba.

After his retirement from hockey and football, he became an accomplished golfer, a professional waterskier, a golf course designer as well as an ambassador to the game of golf. He even officially introduced the game of golf to the former Soviet Union when he built Russias first course just outside Moscow.