Ove Karlsson (sports journalist)

Ove Karlsson ( born 1944 in Motala ) is a Swedish sports journalist. The multiple author on the history of the Olympic Games in 1991, was a founding member of the International Society of Olympic Historians.

Career

Karlsson 1964 began his journalism career at the Swedish sports newspaper Idrottsbladet. In 1967 he moved to Associated Press, before 1971 Svensk idrott, joined the press organ of the Swedish Sports Federation. As a result, he was involved in a number of publications and books of the Sveriges Olympiska man committee. Also after joining the publishing house Brunnhages that in Strömbergs / Brunnhages later became, in 1976. During publishing, he was employed until 1991, since then he has worked as a freelance journalist.

Between 1973 and 1981, Karlsson was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive. In 1986 he was one of the founders of the Sveriges Olympic historian Förening and was until 1988 secretary of the organization. In 1991 he was one of the founding members of the International Society of Olympic Historians, for the Journal of Olympic History as an author he came into the episode in appearance and in which he sat on the Executive Committee since 2004. He also distinguished himself as founding president of the upmarket 1994 from the baptism Swedish Ice hockey Historical and Statistical Society with Subject Olympic Hockey from.