There was concern about how the corona pandemic would affect the activities of the country's sports associations.
New figures from the Swedish Sports Confederation, based on LOK support, show that the number of association activities fell by 7.6 per cent during the spring, compared with the same period in the two previous years.
- The spring has been terrible, because it just slammed.
You just had to keep your head above the water surface, says Peter Lööf, chairman of the Stockholm Association with a focus on Thai boxing.
Martial arts worst affected
It was mainly a type of sport that had it tough - martial arts.
The country's six special federations, which are categorized as martial arts federations, had a reduction of 20 to 40 percent.
This is what the change looked like for the combat union
For Peter Lööf's association, which is based in Stockholm, the spring meant major changes in the business.
Among other things, they cleaned up the entire gym and moved the training outdoors.
- We took everything we could.
We created distance between everything and stopped training against each other.
It is still a sport where we touch each other all the time, so it has been a tough year so far, he says.
Of the country's ten largest sports, five were negatively affected.
Where it was the big hall sports, floorball, basketball and handball, that had a hard time maintaining their activities.
This is what the change looked like for five of Sweden's biggest sports.
"Became an abrupt end"
Erik Ekelund, 15, has been training Thai boxing in the association for five years.
For him, and the rest of the martial artists, it was an element that disappeared completely.
- There was an abrupt end to the competitions.
Something I think is the most fun, that you get to have a training period where you train yourself and learn new things, to then be able to test in a match.
It was completely changed, he says to SVT Sport.