Sture Gillström

Sture Gillström
Sture Gillström
	Sture Gillström in the Hammarby shirt, cerca 1930.
Born	Axel Sture Alexander Gillström; 3 December 1908; Stockholm, Sweden
Died	28 January 1978 (aged 69); Stockholm, Sweden
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)
Position(s)	Left winger / Forward
Youth career
1922–1925	Hammarby IF
Senior career*
Years	Team
1925–1933	Hammarby IF
1933–1934	AIK
1934–1936	Hammarby IF
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Position	Defenceman / Forward
Played for	Hammarby IF; AIK
Playing career	1926–1934
Playing position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
1927–1933	Hammarby
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.; † Appearances (Goals).;

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.

Early life

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

Football

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, one of Hammarby's main rivals, during the season of 1933. He scored 3 goals in 5 appearances for AIK in the first division, but the competition from other attacking players like Per Kaufeldt was ultimately to hard, and Gillström soon decided to return to Hammarby.^[2]

After definitely leaving Hammarby in 1936, Gillström finished his playing career with Sundbyberg in the Swedish lower divisions.^[2]

Ice hockey

Gillström also played ice hockey and won two Swedish championships, in 1932 and 1933, with Hammarby,^[4]^[5] the club's first domestic titles.^[6]

He was listed as a reserve player for AIK, but did not make any appearances, when the club was crowned Swedish champions in 1934.^[2]

During his hockey career, Gillström was called up to the Swedish national team several times, but failed to win any caps for his county.^[2]

Bandy

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

Besides being a sportsman, Gillström worked as a mechanical engineer for ASEA in both Stockholm and Västerås.^[1]

References

^ ^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 ^d ^e ^f "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.
^ "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.

[biographyham-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Det här var Sture "Stöttan" Gillström" (PDF) (in Swedish). Hammarby Fotboll. 2000. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[biographyaik-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (in Swedish). AIK. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[debut-3] "1926" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[goldhockey-4] "Sture Gillström - Hammarbyaren som blev svensk mästare i ishockey" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Ice Hockey Association. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[hockeycareer-5] "Sture Gillström" (in Swedish). Eliteprospects. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

[firstgold-6] "1932" (in Swedish). HIF Historia. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

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