Participant crisis in Mästarnas mästare – then came a new injury

This week, filming for SVT’s “Masters of the Masters” began. This is the thirteenth year in a row that the contest program has aired, which premieres this spring.

But this is the first time that “Masters of the Masters” has been played in Sweden, and that’s because of the corona pandemic. The shooting location this time is Skåne and the areas around Båstad.

However, the recording did not go exactly as planned. Jan Boklöv resigned first and Anders Hedberg also resigned on Friday. Both are detained for health reasons even before the competitions began.

Bengt Gustafsson injured in “Masters of the Masters”

And when it was time for the second part of the competition, the next blow came.

Former volleyball player Bengt Gustafsson suffered a calf injury during a demanding competition on the sandy beach in Båstad.

It was one of the other participants, skier Johan Olsson, who first discovered that Gustafsson was lying on the beach at the finish line.

Olsson called the SVT doctor, who instantly closed Gustafsson’s bet.

– Broke her calf. Right now it hurts a lot, but I hope it’s just a cramp and not a breakdown, says Bengt Gustafsson, who left the competition site with a limp.

“We don’t have a reserve list”

Anders Wistbacka, Executive Producer of “Masters of the Masters” on the situation:

– It is not the case that we have a reserve list, and that there have been two withdrawals before the competitions started, I never think it has been before. Now we can hope that he is not so bad with Bengt but that he can continue to participate.