This is how they want to promote Swedish sports research 

Under the flag "Active health", SOK has identified five different areas.

Performance technology and analysis, for example, they want to produce the world's best skis.

Strength, endurance and fitness, recovery and women's training.

HC Holmberg, professor of sports science and responsible for SOK's initiative, gives an example. 

- Does the menstrual cycle affect how to train?

Does it affect performance?

Does it affect women differently.

With that knowledge, you can then vary the training in slightly different ways, he says. 

Researchers in the various fields will be involved around the country at several different universities.

The investment will last over 2024 and is described as the largest research investment that SOK has made. 

RF's investment: Researching coach 

At the same time, the Swedish Sports Confederation has its methods for promoting Swedish sports research.

For example, a "graduate school" wants to train league captains and elite coaches who also have a foothold in the research world.

If the bridge between academia and elite sports becomes shorter, it is believed that it will be able to give elite sports better conditions. 

Not entirely different from the background that Peter Matsson has.

At the same time as he was the national captain of the Swedish national golf team, he was a doctoral student.

Today he is RF's elite sports director. 

- That you have a role in practical development in sports and at the same time keep up to date with research and academic development.

We have some fantastically good examples today in Swedish sports that are about to emerge.

But more are needed, he says.  

The separate initiatives take place while SOK, RF and Parasport Sweden have agreed on a common strategy for the future of Swedish elite sports.

In the common strategy, whose overall goal is a more coordinated elite sports support, the research has a part. 

"Had hoped they could have agreed" 

The fact that SOK and RF are launching their own research initiatives they see themselves as a complement rather than an opposition to the joint strategy. 

The Center for Sports Research has, among other things, the task of coordinating sports research in Sweden.

Director Christine Dartsch Nilsson is basically positive about SOK and RF's latest investments.

But she had hoped for a more developed collaboration. 

- I had hoped that they could have agreed on a more joint initiative where we are also prepared to have a dialogue with RF and SOK on those issues.

It has not happened, I do not know why, she says.