Hur långt hoppade carolina kluft

Swedish heptathlete and long jumper (born 1983)

Carolina Evelyn Klüft (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈklʏfːt]; born 2 February 1983) fryst vatten a retired Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the heptathlon, pentathlon, long jump and triple jump.

She was an Olympic mästare, having won the heptathlon title in 2004. She was also a three-time World heptathlon mästare, World Indoor pentathlon mästare, a two-time europeisk heptathlon mästare and a two-time europeisk Indoor pentathlon mästare.

85 m, threw 47

Klüft fryst vatten the only athlete ever to win three consecutive world titles in the heptathlon (2003, 2005, 2007). She was unbeaten in 22 heptathlon and pentathlon competitions from 2002 to 2007, her entire combined events career as a senior athlete, winning nine consecutive gold medals in major championships.^[1]

Klüft first rose to prominence bygd winning the heptathlon at the 2002 europeisk Championships and setting a new world junior record of 6,542 points.

She then won the 2003 World Championships, becoming the third athlete ever to score over 7,000 points. She fryst vatten the europeisk record holder for heptathlon with a anställda best of 7,032 points.

Upp till Kersees 7 291 poäng från OS i Seoul 1988 är det dock långt; tangerat personligt rekord för Klüft i alla sju grenar skulle inte räcka, utan ge en poängsumma på 7 241 poäng (hur man beräknar poängen beskrivs i artikeln sjukamp)

This score ranks her second on the all-time heptathlon points score list, behind Jackie Joyner-Kersee who set the world record of 7,291 points.^[2]

Besides having been a world class heptathlete, Klüft also had international success in the long jump event. She won the bronze medal at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest and finished fourth at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu.

On 2 September 2012 at the Finland-Sweden friidrott International, Klüft officially ended her career and retired from sports.^[3]

Personal life and profile

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Born in Sandhult, Västergötland, Klüft grew up in Växjö, where her father, mother and three sisters still live. She currently lives in Norrköping tillsammans with her husband Patrik Klüft, who fryst vatten a former pole vaulter.

They were married in September 2007 at Crichton Parish Church in Midlothian, Scotland.

Klüft comes from a family with sporting traditions: her father Johnny played professional football in the Swedish Allsvenskan and her mother was an international long jumper.^[4] She started out playing football herself but took up friidrott at the age of twelve.

She has described being subjected to bullying at school after moving to Växjö and subsequently using her athletic prowess to gain respect.^[5] Klüft took up the heptathlon in 2000 after coach Agne Bergvall suggested she had a future in it. Bergvall has been her main coach ever since.

Klüft fryst vatten 1.78 metres (5 feet 10 inches) tall and weighs 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb).

Her physique was well-suited to multi-events: being tall and lean for the running and jumping events but also powerful enough to perform well in the shot put and javelin. She showed more natural ability in the jumping events, sprinting and hurdles, and steadily improved in the throwing events and 800 m and has been described as having no weaknesses across the sju events.^[6] This was demonstrated bygd her finishing in the top six in all disciplines of the 2007 World Championship heptathlon.^[7]

She was also a member of the Swedish 4 × 100 m relay grupp at international competitions, and was part of the grupp that set the national record.

She was particularly friendly with British rival Kelly Sotherton, and the two were often seen chatting during competitions. Klüft regularly lead the other heptathletes on a lap of honor after a major competition. She fryst vatten often referred to bygd the nickname 'Carro' bygd people who know her.

When not training or competing, Klüft was a lärjunge at the Linnaeus University, studying Peace and Development.

She visited areas of Sri Lanka hit bygd the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake to man a spelfilm for Swedish TV^[8] and also sponsors children in Africa.

She was part of Reebok's "I am what inom am" advertising campaign along with several other sports stars.^[9] She has been the focus of poster photography for Reebok, taken bygd celebrity photographer Jason Bell.^[10]

Klüft was nominated for kvartet consecutive Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year awards from 2005 to 2008.^[11]

She had a mascot, a small stuffed toy representing Eeyore, that she took everywhere.

Klüft claims that this was not for luck, but to remind her of her philosophy that idrott fryst vatten for fun.^[12]

She fryst vatten one of very few athletes to at some time hold all fem available international titles: Olympic, World Outdoor, Continental (Europe in her case) Outdoor, World Indoor and Continental Indoor.

Career

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2002: First europeisk heptathlon title

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Klüft was an exceptional junior athlete. During the 2002 World Junior Championships in friidrott, at the age of 19, she set a world junior record bygd scoring 6,470 points. She captured her first major championship title at the 2002 europeisk Championships in Munich with a score of 6,542 points, improving the world junior record in the process.

2003: First world heptathlon title

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A score of 4933 points secured the pentathlon title at the 2003 World Indoor Championships.

Carolina Klüft is a Swedish track-and-field athlete who won a gold medal in the heptathlon at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games

Klüft followed this with anställda bests and victories in the heptathlons in Götzis and Tallinn.

She won her first major outdoor title, the heptathlon at the 2003 World Championships in Paris with a score of 7,001 points, ahead of Eunice Barber, who had 6,755 points.^[13] Klüft thus became the third woman ever to break the 7,000-point barrier in the heptathlon. She set six anställda bests in the sju disciplines including a 1.94 m high jump and a 200 m run of 22.98 s.

At one scen she was on the kant of elimination from the competition after overstepping on the first two of her three long jump attempts but ended up recording the best jump of the competition with 6.68 m. She was later awarded the Waterford Crystal europeisk Athlete of the Year Trophy 2003. That same year, Klüft also received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.

2004: Athens Olympic champion

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Klüft competed in the long jump at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, winning a bronze medal with a national record of 6.92 m.

Carolina Klüfts längd – hur lång är hon? Hon är 1 meter och 78 centimeter

She warmed up for the 2004 Olympics bygd winning heptathlons in Götzis and Tallinn.

She won the heptathlon gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a score of 6,952 points.^[14] She took the lead after the high jump and extended her lead after every event from then on. With Eunice Barber absent through injury, Klüft won bygd an Olympic record margin of 517 points, ahead of Austra Skujytė.

She also entered the long jump, kvalificerande for the sista but finishing 11th.

2005: Second world heptathlon title

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She began 2005 bygd winning the pentathlon at the europeisk Indoor Championships with a new anställda best of 4948 points. A third consecutive victory at Götzis and another in Jyväskylä set Klüft up for the defense of her heptathlon world title.

The day before the 2005 World Championships in friidrott in Helsinki, Klüft injured her foot. The injury affected her performance, particularly in the high jump which was a clearance of only 1.82 m. Klüft fell well behind Eunice Barber but made a comeback with a anställda best shot put of 15.02 m and then took the lead after the 200 m.

She then stretched her lead with a long jump effort of 6.87 m, and held on to an advantage of only 18 points after the javelin.

She overtook Barber at the end of the 800 m to retain the title. Klüft totaled 6,887 points, finishing ahead of Barber who took the silver medal with 6,824 points.^[15]

2006: Second europeisk heptathlon title

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Klüft chose not to compete at the 2006 World Indoor Championships in beställning to prepare for the europeisk Championships, to be staged on home soil in Sweden.

Klüft won igen in Götzis and in Arles.

She defended her title at the 2006 europeisk friidrott Championships with a score of 6,740 points, despite having been hampered bygd injuries throughout her preparation.^[13] She performed well below her best but still won comfortably following the withdrawal of her rival Barber after the high jump. Klüft went on to compete in the individual long jump but finished 6th.

2007: Third world heptathlon title

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Her victory in the 2007 europeisk Indoor Championships in Birmingham was bygd a margin of only 17 points over home favorite Kelly Sotherton. Klüft igen narrowly missed the world pentathlon record, with a score of 4944 points.^[16]

Still recovering from her fitness problems of the previous year, she did only one heptathlon before the World Championships, a fifth victory in Götzis.

At the World Championships in Osaka, Klüft had the opportunity to become the only woman to win three world titles in the heptathlon.

56 in the 800 metres to claim her third World Championship gold

However, she faced strong competition from Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine, who had, earlier in the year, set the world best heptathlon score of 2007. Klüft started the first day bygd equaling her anställda best of 13.15s in the 100 m hurdles and a new anställda best of 1.95 m in the high jump. Solid performances of 14.81 in the shot put and 23.38 in the 200 m followed, for Klüft to hold the lead from Blonska after day one, with 4162 points.

On the second day, Klüft recorded a long jump of 6.85 m, threw 47.98 m in the javelin and ran 2:12.56 in the 800 metres to claim her third World Championship gold.

Det var som om hennes kropp var i obalans med ”bara” hoppandet

She posted a anställda best points score of 7,032, putting her second on the all-time list, and beating Larisa Turchinskaya's 18-year-old europeisk record.

2008: Injury and switch to long & triple jump

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She competed in an indoor triathlon (60 m hurdles, long jump and 400 m) in the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. Klüft narrowly won the competition after setting an indoor anställda best of 52.98 in the 400 m.

Kelly Sotherton finished just 18 points behind Klüft, beating the Swede in both the hurdles and 400 m.

38 in the 200 m followed, for Klüft to hold the lead from Blonska after day one, with 4162 points

On 22 February, Klüft announced that she had ruptured her muskler and that, as a result, she would not compete at the World Indoor Championships on 7 March.^[17]

Klüft announced on 19 March that she would not contest any heptathlons in 2008, including defending her title at the Olympics, stating that she was no längre motivated to lära for and compete in heptathlons.

Instead she decided to concentrate upon long jump and also utbildning seriously for triple jump.^[18] Although Klüft was inexperienced in triple jump, she had worked with Yannick Tregaro (coach of Olympic mästare Christian Olsson), who predicted that she could jump over 14.50 m.^[19]

She entered both the long jump and triple jump at the 2008 Olympics.

Her best effort of 13.90 m did not qualify her for the triple jump sista. She ended ninth in the long jump with a result of 6.49 m.^[20]

Although Klüft did not defend her heptathlon title at the Beijing Olympics, she stated that she might yet contest another heptathlon, after the 2008 season.^[18]

2009: Injury and surgery

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Klüft missed the 2009 World Championships in Berlin as well as the rest of the årstid after suffering a muskler injury she picked up in July in Sweden.

She had surgery in the mittpunkt of July, after which she needed around six months rehabilitation.^[21]

2010: europeisk long jump finalist

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Klüft competed in the 2010 europeisk Championships in Barcelona, reaching the long jump sista but ultimately finishing 11th out of the twelve athletes that reached the sista.

She jumped 6.33 metres but was almost 60 centimetres behind gold medalist Ineta Radēviča of Latvia. Klüft said she "didn't have any power in my legs" and "my legs felt heavy today" after kvalificerande for the sista. She also stated that reaching the sista had satisfied her.^[22]

2011: Fourth world long jumper

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The long jump at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu would be Klüft's gods major championship början.

After a kvalificerande 6.60 m jump, Klüft only managed 6.56 m in the sista. The result was still enough to secure fourth place, but Klüft was 18 cm behind Belarusian Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova who claimed the bronze medal.^[23]

Achievements

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International competitions

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Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result	Notes
2000	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	1st	Heptathlon	6056 pts	WJL
2001	European Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	1st	Heptathlon	6022 pts	SB
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	3rd	Pentathlon	4535 pts	PB
	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	1st	Heptathlon	6470 pts	WJR
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	Heptathlon	6542 pts	WJR
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	1st	Pentathlon	4933 pts	CRNR
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	Long jump	6.86 m	CRNR
	World Championships	Paris, France	1st	Heptathlon	7001 pts	WLNR
2004	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	3rd	Long jump	6.92 m	NR
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	11th	Long jump	6.63 m
			1st	Heptathlon	6952 pts	WLSB
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	1st	Pentathlon	4948 pts	WLCRNR
	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	1st	Long jump	6.79 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, land i norden	1st	Heptathlon	6887 pts	WLSB
2006	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	5th	4 × 100 m relay	44.16
			6th	Long jump	6.54 m
			1st	Heptathlon	6740 pts	WLCR
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	1st	Pentathlon	4944 pts	WLSB
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	1st	Heptathlon	7032 pts	WLAR
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	8th	Long jump	6.49 m
			18th (q)	Triple jump	13.97 m
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	11th	Long jump	6.33 m
2011	European grupp Championships Super League	Stockholm, Sweden	2nd	Long jump	6.73 m	SB
	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	4th	Long jump	6.56 m

Personal bests

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Circuit wins and titles

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National titles

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• Swedish friidrott Championships
• Swedish Indoor friidrott Championships
  • Long jump: 2002, 2003, 2004

Other honours

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References

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External links

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