{{short description|Swedish journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Bengt Grive | image = Bengt Grive.jpg | image_upright = yes | caption = Grive in 1959. | birth_name = Bengt Edvin Axel Gustafsson | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|3|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|9|17|1921|3|21|df=y}} | death_place = Lidingö, Sweden | occupation = Sports commentator, journalist, writer | years_active = | spouse = {{marriage|Martha Svensson|1945}} | children = 1 }}
'''Bengt Edvin Axel Grive''' (born '''Gustafsson''', 21 March 1921 – 17 September 2003) was a Swedish sports commentator, journalist and author.<ref name="aftonbladet.se">{{cite newspaper|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/article10394887.ab |newspaper=Aftonbladet |title=Bengt Grive död |first=Caroline |last=Olsson |date=20 March 2008 |access-date=15 September 2019 |language=sv |archive-date=19 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319213524/https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/article10394887.ab |url-status=live}}</ref>
==Early life== Grive was born on 21 March 1921 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Edvin Gustafsson and Elsa (née Lindström).<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 395">{{cite book |editor-last=Salander Mortensen |editor-first=Jill |year=1996 |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1997 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1997 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |isbn=91-1-960852-7 |language=sv |id={{LIBRIS|3681533}} |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/0395.html |page=395 |access-date=15 September 2019 |archive-date=25 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325223655/http://runeberg.org/vemardet/1997/0395.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Grive worked as a firefighter in Stockholm during a few years in the 1940s.<ref name="aftonbladet.se"/>
==Career== In his youth, he was part of the Swedish elite in table tennis, during a few years and won the Swedish championship in the sport in 1951.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.kristianstadsbladet.se/familj/grive-skulle-fyllt-87-ar/ |newspaper=Kristianstadsbladet |title=Grive skulle fyllt 87 år |date=20 March 2008 |access-date=15 September 2019 |language=sv}}{{dead link |date=April 2021}}</ref>
Grive worked at ''Aftonbladet'' newspaper from 1951 to 1956, and performed as a variety show artist from 1953 to 1960.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 395"/> In 1960, he became a reporter for Sveriges Television, where he worked until 1990 when he became a freelance journalist.<ref name="Dagens Nyheter">{{cite news |url=https://www.dn.se/sport/en-svensk-mastare-har-gatt-ur-tiden/ |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |title=En svensk mästare har gått ur tiden |date=8 September 2003 |access-date=15 September 2019 |language=sv |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927143341/https://www.dn.se/sport/en-svensk-mastare-har-gatt-ur-tiden/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1993, he started working for Eurosport when the channel expanded its broadcast to the Nordics.<ref name="Dagens Nyheter"/> He got to commentate both tennis and ski jumping. He also became a mentor for among others {{ill|Chris Härenstam|sv}} and {{ill|Niklas Holmgren|sv}}.<ref name="aftonbladet.se"/>
He is best known for commentating Björn Borg's tennis finals in Wimbledon during the 1970s and 1980s. He also commentated table tennis, figure skating and football.
==Personal life== In 1945, Grive married Marta Svensson (1923–2005), the daughter of Ivar Svensson, a merchant, and Linnéa (née Eriksson). They had one daughter, Madeleine Grive (born 1955), a journalist.<ref name="Salander Mortensen (1996), p. 395"/>
==Bibliography== * {{cite book |last=Grive |first=Bengt |title=Pingis och alla tiders statistik |year=1967 |publisher=Norstedt |location=Stockholm |language=sv |id={{LIBRIS|1982658}}}} * {{cite book |title=Swedish tennis: media guide |year=1985–1989 |publisher=Volvo in Sports |location=Gothenburg |id={{LIBRIS|4109602}}}} * {{cite book |last=Grive |first=Bengt |author2=Tecknar-Anders |title=Glitter och stänk |year=1989 |publisher=Nordjem |location=Helsingborg |language=sv |isbn=9174820192 |id={{LIBRIS|7644125}}}} * {{cite book |last=Grive |first=Bengt |author2=Tecknar-Anders |title=Resor med mål |year=1991 |publisher=Nordjem |location=Helsingborg |language=sv |isbn=9174820311 |id={{LIBRIS|7644134}}}} * {{cite books |last=Grive |first=Bengt |title=Blå gula guld: OS 100 år |year=1995 |publisher=Nordjem |location=Helsingborg |language=sv |isbn=9174820427 |id={{LIBRIS|7644144}}}} * {{cite journal |last=Grive |first=Bengt |title=Personligt |year=2001 |journal=Röster om Lars Forssell |publisher=Stockholm : ABF, 2001 |pages=63–72 |id={{LIBRIS|3340520}} |language=sv}}
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==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Bengt Grive}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grive, Bengt}} Category:1921 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Swedish sports commentators Category:Swedish male table tennis players Category:Journalists from Stockholm Category:Sportspeople from Stockholm Category:20th-century Swedish sportsmen