Gunilla Lindberg, born May 6, 1947 in Upplands Väsby

Upplands Väsby

Upplands Väsby is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Upplands Väsby Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 35,977 inhabitants in 2005.-Overview:...

 is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 sports official.

Lindberg took up a position in the offices of the Swedish Olympic Committee

Swedish Olympic Committee

The Swedish Olympic Committee is the Swedish National Olympic Committee . The Swedish Olympic Committee organize the Swedish participation in the Olympics, choose the participants and run the "Elitprogrammet".The committee has 35 Olympic national federations members and 12 by the IOC national...

 (SOC) in 1969, and was appointed SOC's Secretary-General in 1989. She was elected to the board of the European Olympic Committees

European Olympic Committees

The European Olympic Committees is an organization based in Rome, Italy. Its European membership consists of 49 National Olympic Committees.- Member countries :...

 in 1993, and was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee

The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

 (IOC) in 1996. In 2000, she was elected to the board of the IOC, and since 2004 she is one of four Vice Presidents of the IOC.

Lindberg is also Secretary-General of the Association of National Olympic Committees.

External links

• http://www.eurolympic.org/jahia/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/82?language=eng
• http://www.sok.se/?open&f=F1&id=99772&mid=10..noexpand&