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{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image = Erik Burman.jpg
| image_size = 150px
| nationality = {{Flag|Sweden}}
| position = Center
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| played_for = [[IK Göta Ishockey]]<br>[[Berliner Schlittschuhclub]]<br>[[Antwerpen]]
| birth_date = December 6, 1897
| birth_place = [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]
| death_date = March 31, 1985
| death_place = Stockholm, Sweden
| career_start = 1920
| career_end = 1941
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'''Hjalmar Erik Wilheim "Jerka, Burre" Burman''' (December 6, 1897 in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]] – March 31, 1985) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[ice hockey]] player and footballer who competed in the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] and in the [[1924 Winter Olympics]].

In 1920 he was a member of the [[Swedish National Team]] which finished fourth in the [[1920 Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics tournament]]. He played five matches and scored four goals. Eric Burman became the first goal scorer for Sweden ever, by scoring against Belgium, April 23, 1920.

In the [[Ice Hockey European Championship 1921|1921 European Championship]], Burman played for [[Sweden]] in the one game they played against [[Czechoslovakia]]. He scored three goals to help lead [[Sweden]] to a 6–4 win and a Championship title.

Four years later he finished again fourth with the Swedish team in the first [[1924 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament]].

Burman played both hockey and bandy for [[IK Göta]]. After the Olympics 1920 he played in Europe with [[Berliner SC]], 1921 and 1923. He won [[Swedish ice hockey champions|Swedish hockey championships]] 1923, 1929 and 1930, and Swedish bandy championships in 1929, together with [[IK Göta]]. He was living in Berlin before he moved to Antwerp and played hockey there with CP Antwerp, before he moved to the USA and some games with the Minneapolis Street Runners.<ref>http://www.azhockey.com/Bu.htm a to z encyclopaedia of ice hockey</ref>

He later returned to Sweden, and on November 26, 1940 Eric Burman became the oldest player ever in Swedish championships in hockey. In this match he also became the oldest ever scorer in Swedish in the same game. He was then 42 years, 11 months and 20 days, when IK Göta played [[IK Sture]] in the [[Svenska Serien]], the highest league in Swedish ice hockey between seasons 1935/1936 through 1943/1944.<ref name="A">http://www.swehockey.se Svenska Ishockeyförbundet</ref><ref name="b">http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv4n2/JOHv4n2c.pdf "THE BIRTH OF SWEDISH ICE HOCKEY - ANTWERP 1920" av Kenth Hansen</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.sok.se/5.1017605f109c54f7865800027609.html profile]

==References==
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