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MDA8

The third class of the MDA program launched in the autumn of 2012. In total 6 professional atheletes from various sports participated. Below you can find a brief summary of their merits.

Helena Ekholm

Helena is an experienced former biathlon athlete, who have had great sucess competing in the WC.  She has won two individual WC gold medals and 3 WC bronze and 3 mix relay medals. She also won the total World cup 2008/2009 and was hence awarded the Jerring Award, the Svenska Dagbladet medal and the Sportswoman of the Year (2010) at Idrottsgalan. Not only does Helena have an impressive athletic bakground, but she does also obtain a bachelor degree in Business administration and a university degree in law. She finished her sports career in 2012 and continued as an employee at PWC (2012-2016), boardmember in Swedish Biathlon Union (2013-2018) to now having her own personal trainer company and training studio concurrent to  acting as a expert commentator for SVT.

Björn Svensson

Björn was born in 1986 into a 

Erika Grahm

At the age of 14, Erika began playing ice hockey for MoDo and only 5 years later was she announed team captain. After 8 years, she continued her career and role as team captain for Brynäs. Though ending her professional play in 2021, she holds the position of the 4th most goal scoring player in the SDHL, the first woman to be included in the international hockey database Elite Prospects, and with 2 Olympic plays. She remained engaged in ice hockey ithrough the role of Sports Manager and Head of the female team at Brynäs IF. She has started many projects in moDo andd Brynäs aiming to attract and maintain young females in ice hockey.  

 

Maria Danielsson

 

Martin Jönsson

 

 

Louise Permelin