| Sture Gillström | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Axel Sture Alexander Gillström | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 3 December 1908[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height: | 175 cm [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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]
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, during the season of 1933–34. Back in Hammarby for the 1934–35 season, Gillström scored a hattrick on 5 May 1935 against Västerviks AIS and become the team's top scorer for the season with eight goals.[4]
After definitely leaving Hammarby in 1936, Gillström finished his playing career with Sundbyberg in the Swedish lower divisions.[5]
Gillström also played ice hockey and won two Swedish championships, in 1932 and 1933, with Hammarby,[6] [7] the club's first domestic titles.[8]
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]
Besides being a sportsman, Gillström worked as a mechanical engineer for ASEA in both Stockholm and Västerås.[1]