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Sep 01, 1916 Moscow, Russia Died on 05 Sep 2001 (aged 85)
Danish ice hockey player
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About Jørgen Hviid
- Jørgen Alfred Hviid (Latvian: Jergens Alfreds Hvids; 1 September 1916 – 5 September 2001) was a Danish and Latvian multi-sport athlete, and an officer in the Royal Danish Navy.
- He was primarily an ice hockey player, but also competed in speed skating and sailing. Hviid grew up in Riga, and played on the Latvia men's national ice hockey team as a teenager.
- He later moved to Denmark, and joined the Danish resistance movement at the onset of World War II, and began a military career.
- He founded the Kjøbenhavns SF hockey team in 1938, and served as the first captain of the Denmark men's national ice hockey team at the 1949 World Ice Hockey Championships.
- He won Danish ice hockey league championships as a player and as a coach, and was later a board member on the Danish Ice Hockey Union.
- He was posthumously inducted into both the IIHF Hall of Fame, and the Danish Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, and is referred to as the "father of Danish ice hockey".
