"Morfar Sigfrid" och "mormor Ruth". Sigfrid Edström barnbarn mötte skådespelarna i föreställningen ”Asea – här kommer framtiden”. Jan Mybrand spelar Aseas före detta vd Sigfrid Edström och Bodil ...
Johannes Sigfrid Edström (11 November 1870 – 18 March 1964) was a Swedish industrialist, chairman of the Sweden-America Foundation, and fourth president of the International Olympic Committee. During World War II, Edström and Brundage kept the workings of the IOC alive by frequent letters to the IOC Members, keeping them apprised of future plans when the War ended. In 1946, in the first post-war IOC Session in Lausanne, Sigfrid Edström was elected IOC President by acclamation. Sigfrid (J.
sigfrid edström, Sigfrid) Edström was the acting International Olympic Committee (IOC) president during World War II and was formally elected IOC President at the first post‑war session in Lausanne in 1946, making him the sitting IOC president for the 1948 London Summer Olympics — the first Summer Games after WWII [1] [2]. In 1912 Sigfrid Edström, later president of the IOC, founded the IF for athletics (track and field), the earliest of Olympic sports and perhaps the Games’ special focus. J. Sigfrid Edström, the fourth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1946 to 1952, was born on 21 November in Sweden, 137 years ago. It fell to him to lead the IOC in the middle of the Second World War.
sigfrid edström, During the Stockholm Games, Edström also organised the group that established the International Amateur Athletic Federation as the governing body of athletics. For his efforts, he became the first President of the IAAF, holding that office from 1913 to 1946. Edström stood down as IAAF president in 1946 to become the International Olympic Committee president, a post he held for six years before retiring at the age of 82. He died in Stockholm on .
