“It was scary to hang in a big crane and just fly back and forth”

“It was scary to hang in a big crane and just fly back and forth”

10,000 were in place in the center when Helsingborg beat Uppsala in Stadskampen 1999.

Susanne Erlandsson was to push down giant golf balls that lay on high pillars, hanging in a harness that rocked back and forth at the competitions in 1999. Image: Pär Eliasson In 1999 and 2001 there were competitions in Helsingborg and the influx of visitors to Hamntorget where the competition area was built up was enormous. In 1999, the police estimated that there were around 10,000 Helsingborgers on site to see the spectacle live. Järnvägsgatan and Drottninggatan had to be blocked off for car traffic because too many pedestrians moved in the streets and squares and simply did not fit the cars. Susanne Erlandsson today remembers the competitions as fantastically fun but much more difficult than what it looked like from the TV couch.Picture: Private Susanne Erlandsson has the competitions in bright memory. The cohesion of the team, which consisted of ten more or less famous Helsingborgers, was strong and even today she sometimes talks to some of them about how it was. When Stadskampen was decided in 2001, 150 tons of sand were laid out on Hamntorget. Photo: Barbro Hallin And as I said, it was much tougher and more difficult in reality than it probably looked from the TV couch. in the pools it was freezing cold, she says. On the front page of HD the next day, Susanne Erlandsson can be seen hanging in a harness a good distance up in the air. Just fly back and forth, she says. “/>Thousands of people showed up in the center at the Stadskamps competitions in 1999 and 2001. Picture: Anette Ericsson But it was not just the celebrities who got to get involved for Helsingborg to win. The residents of the city where the competition was decided were also invited to contribute. The then municipal director P-O Gunnarsson got assignments which he read out on TV and then it was only to hope that they would be obeyed. Tomas Di Leva entertained during the competitions in Helsingborg and Susanne Erlandsson remembers, among other things, that he drew moons, suns and other figures on the wrapping paper for the cakes that were in the room in the Steam Ferry Station where the participants waited between the competition elements. “He was fantastic and took his time for everyone,” she says. And gradually more and more elves appeared in the city in the middle of July. cheers from the crowd in the center echoed across the Sound when the summer evening passed last night. Thomas Ravelli, Sofia Wistam and Staffan Ling led Stadskampen during the 1999 season and visited Helsingborg, among others. Photo: Photo: Fredrik Hjerling/TV4 Even the hosts Sofia Wistam and Staffan Ling were impressed by the latter really took off when he described the achievement in a live broadcast. & quot; The biggest thing that has happened in Helsingborg since the city became Swedish in 1710 & quot; .It can probably be disputed. But that it was big and a lot of people when Stadskampen came to Helsingborg – everyone can probably agree on that.