[2] Kristianstads SLS was for several years in the 1970s and 1980s Sweden's most successful swimming club.

It was under the leadership of Tommy Malmsten, swimmer and in the 1980s coach of the national team that the successes were won.

[13][14] [15][16][17][18][19] Kristianstads SLS had won 78 Swedish championship titles in women's events until 1985.

[20] On the men's side, they have won fewer, but still about twenty Swedish Championship golds.

[21] Tommy Malmsten now runs a very successful company in the swimming industry in Åhus.