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Arena
  
Erikdsalshallen

Based in
  
Stockholm

Founded
  
1899

SoIK Hellas httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Full name
  
Sim- och idrottsklubben Hellas

Sport
  
bowling, track and field athletics, handball, swimming, orienteering, tennis , water polo soccer, table tennis, fencing, gymnastics, cross-country skiing, diving, ski orienteering, squash (earlier)

Team history
  
Pastorns gossar (1899–1912)

SoIK Hellas is a sports club in Stockholm, Sweden, established on 14 May 1899 as Pastorns gossar by Katarina Parish confirmation priest Ernst Klefbeck, before changing name to SoIK Hellas in 1912, also on the initiative of Ernst Klefbeck. Nowadays running bowling, track and field athletics, handball, swimming, orienteering, tennis and water polo, the club earlier even ran soccer, table tennis, fencing, gymnastics, cross-country skiing, diving, ski orienteering and squash.

The men's handball team won the Swedish national indoor handball championship in 1936, 1937, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1977. Even the men's water polo team has won Swedish championship titles.

In 2009, the club decided to become an alliance club starting in 2010.

References

SoIK Hellas Wikipedia