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SWEDISH TEAM MEDIA GUIDE IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Helsinki 2005 SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Helsinki 2005. Index 3 medals is the target . 3 MUSTAFA MOHAMED . 24 3 medals is The Swedish National Athletic Team: ANDREAS MOKDASI . 25 LENA ARUHN. 4 THOMAS NIKITIN. 25-26 KIRSTEN BELIN . 5 CECILIA NILSSON. 26 the target KAJSA BERGQVIST . 6-7 IDA NILSSON. 27-28 MATTIAS CLAESSON . 7-8 EMMA RIENAS . 28 The Swedish National Athletic Team is well prepared for the World EMMA GREEN . 8-9 ANNA SÖDERBERG . 29 Championships in Helsinki. Even LOUISE GUNDERT . 9 GABRIEL WALLIN . 30 though Christian Olsson has been STEFAN HOLM . 10-11 JOHAN WISSMAN . 30-31 forced to decline due to an injury, the MIKAEL JAKOBSSON . 11-12 BENGT BENGTSSON . 32 optimism and expectations are high. JENNY KALLUR. 12-13 FREDRIK SVENSSON . 32-33 Head coach Thomas Engdahl believes SUSANNA KALLUR . 14-15 MONICA SVENSSON. 33 in 3 medals. CAROLINA KLÜFT . 16-17 European Championships in sight . 35 Engdahl is the new head coach since last fall, when he succeeded Ulf World Championship preparations in Main sponsors . 35 Karlsson. Throughout his entire life, both as an athlete and in his professional the Finnish archipelago. 18 -19 Swedish Team Press Conferences . 36 career, athletics have been in focus for him. From 1995 to 1998 Thomas was PATRIK KRISTIANSSON . 20 Swedish Team Officials . 36 the women’s head coach. Engdahl’s first task as the new team coach was at ROBERT KRONBERG . 21-22 the Indoor European Championships in Madrid in March earlier this year. JIMISOLA LAURSEN. 23 The team delivered five medals; 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Engdahl was off to a good start at the job as the head coach but this also increased the expectations for continued success. Editor: Fredrik Trahn, Swedish Athletics Association Photo: Ryno Quantz, Hans Sjögren and Anders Egle. “Of course the pressure to produce top results is increasing as the Swedish Technical production:Text & Bildproduktion AB athletes have been so successful in recent years. At the 2003 World Facts compiled by: A. Lennart Julin (ATFS) Facts women and walking:Valuable assistance from Owe Fröberg (ATFS) and Birger Fält. Championships in Paris the team achieved five medals. Since Christian Olsson is injured the team is aiming for three medals at this championship”, says Note:The purpose of this guide is to be a source of background information for the media covering the IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Helsinki 2005.Thus individual pieces of information are of Thomas Engdahl. course free to use in articles and reports. However, the actual profiles must not be – wholly or partially – reprinted, published on Internet or entered into databases or similar electronic information systems. The Swedish World Championships team has usually consisted of some 20-25 athletes and with 26 athletes entered Helsinki fits that pattern. The team is a Media contact: Media contacts with the Swedish team shall be organised via Fredrik Trahn, Press Officer, phone +46-70-913 67 96 or [email protected] mixture of experience and youthful enthusiasm with the youngest having just turned 19 while the oldest is a quarter of century older. Swedish Athletic Association Box 11 Although the team size thus has remained fairly constant the number of ath- SE-171 18 SOLNA, SWEDEN Phone: +46-8-587 721 00 letes getting successfully involved in the hunt for the coveted championships Fax: +46-8-587 721 88 medals has recently risen noticeably. It remains to be seen if Helsinki 2005 E-mail: [email protected] will maintain that positive trend. Internet: www.friidrott.se 3 SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Helsinki 2005. SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Helsinki 2005. LENA Terece ARUHN (formerly UDD) KIRSTEN Margareta Kristina BELIN Pronounciation LEH-nah Ah-RUHN Pronounciation KISH-tenn Beh-LEEN Born 22 April 1970 (Lidingö) Born 2 May 1981 (Borlänge) Height/Weight 173 cm / 61 kg Height/Weight 176 cm / 60 kg Club IFK Lidingö (-'97), Hammarby IF ('98-'00), Club Kvarnsvedens GoIF SoIK Hellas ('01-'02), Ume FI ('03-) Coach Ulf Karlsson / Thomas Kyöttilä Coach Urban Aruhn Event Pole Vault Event 400m & 4x100m Personal bests 4.51 Göteborg 27.8.2002 **NR** Personal bests 52.32 Helsinki, FIN 23.8.2002 2005 best 4.45 Sollentuna 28.6.2005 11.58 Nice, FRA 12.5.2005 Progression 1998 2.35 2005 best 52.40 Gävle 18.6.2005 1999 3.68 3.87i 2000 3.60 3.75i Progression 400m 400m i 200m 200m i 100m 2001 4.22 1995 59.78 2002 4.51 1996 - 27.15 2003 4.40 1997 - 24.42 12.14/12.00w 2004 3.90 1998 - 24.59 11.89 2005 4.45 1999 56.86 24.93/24.81w 12.75 Major competitions 2001 European U23 Ch qual 2000 - 24.50w 11.94 2002 European Indoor Ch 7 2001 54.65i 23.73 11.91/11.67w European Ch 9 2002 52.32 53.97i 23.76 24.44i 11.90 2003 World Indoor Ch qual (10) 2003 53.41 53.72i 24.06 24.64i 11.94 2005 European Indoor Ch qual (10) 2004 53.02 23.90 11.88/11.82w Internat. matches Outdoors: 8 2005 52.40 52.77i 23.47 24.06i 11.58 Indoors: 2 Major competitions 2002 European Ch 5 (400m) National titles Outdoors: 2001, 2002 7 (4x400m) Indoors: 2000, 2003 heat (4x100m) PB other events 60m i 7.82 Karlstad 30.1.2005 2005 European Indoor Ch heat (400m) 100m 12.31 Göteborg 2.7.2005 Internat. matches Outdoors: 8 TJ 10.48 Uppsala 23.5.1998 Indoors: 1 w 10.58 Uppsala 23.5.1998 National titles Outdoors (200m): 2002 Note: Former gymnast who took up athletics in '98 and who - following a considerable amount of (400m): 2004 persuasion - tried the pole vault in the autumn of that year. Indoors (200m): 2005 (400m): 2002 During '99-'03 had no less than 25 entries (ties and improvements) into the national record lists (16 PB other events 60m i 7.73 Solna 24.1.1998 outdoors, 9 indoors) although not all of the ties have been officially ratified. i 7.73 Sätra 19.1.2002 Now on the comeback trail after missing most of '03 and '04 due to injury. 100m 11.58 Nice, FRA 12.5.2005 Since last autumn coached by former national head coach Ulf Karlsson and doing much of her gen- 200m 23.47 Donnas, ITA 13.7.2005 eral training together with 3-times Olympic diver Anna Lindberg. 300m 38.90 Alfáz del Pi, ESP 19.4.2003 Opened her '05 in late January with an 8-step runup clearing 3.63 and within a month reached 12 Halfmar 1:34:18 Stockholm 3.9.1994 steps and 4.30. 30km XC 2:29:19 Lidingö 2.10.1994 LJ i 5.38 Lidingö 16.2.1985 Website: http://www.kirstenbelin.nu Athletics in family Husband Urban (formerly Johansson, b '66) 800m 1:48.17 '90. Note: Despite having success at a very early age (e.g. 8.37 for 60m at age 12) and being recognised as a major sprint talent quit the sport at age 15 not to return for a decade. During that “time-out” took up longdistance running for fitness completing three halfmarathons and also twice the extremely challenging “Lidingöloppet” 30 km cross-country race. Returned to “serious” sprinting at age 27 and immediately joined the national elite and within one year made first appearance on the national team. 4 5 SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Helsinki 2005. SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Helsinki 2005. KAJSA Margareta BERGQVIST Note: Ranked the No 1 female high jumper of the years '00 & '02 by ”Track & Field News”. Residing in Monte Carlo since spring of '01. Pronounciation KYE-sah BAIRJ-kvisst Snapped her right (non-take-off foot) achilles tendon in a competition on 18 July '04. Following Born 12 October 1976 (Sollentuna) operation and a long period of rehabilitation made sensational return to competition on 28 May '05 Height/Weight 175 cm / 59 kg by clearing 2.00! Has a 7-0 win-loss record this summer. Club Turebergs FK US university Southern Methodist University ('96-'99) All-time number of 2.00+ meets is currently at 34. Coach Yannick Tregaro Website: http://www.kajsabergqvist.nu Event High Jump Personal bests 2.06 Eberstadt, GER 26.7.2003 **NR** 2005 best 2.01 Gävle 19.6.2005 Progression 1988 1.38 1997 1.95 1989 1.56 1998 1.93 1990 1.56 1.61i 1999 1.98 1991 1.61 2000 2.01 1992 1.77 2001 2.00 1993 1.84 2002 2.05 1994 1.90 2003 2.06 1995 1.90 1.92i 2004 1.80 2.02i 1996 1.93 2005 2.01 Major competitions 1993 European Youth Olympics 1 1999 World Ch =4 European Junior Ch 8 2000 European Indoor Ch 1 1994 World Junior Ch (jump-off) 2 Olympic G =3 1995 World Indoor Ch 13 2001 World Indoor Ch 1 European Junior Ch 2 World Ch 3 World Ch qual IAAF Grand Prix final 4 1996 European Indoor Ch 6 2002 European Indoor Ch =2 Olympic G qual European Ch 1 1997 World Indoor Ch 8 World Cup 2 European U23 Ch 2 2003 World Indoor Ch 1 World Ch =5 World Ch 3 1998 European Ch qual MATTIAS David CLAESSON Internat. matches Outdoors: 18 Pronounciation Mah-TEE-uss KLAH-sonn Indoors: 1 Born 26 July 1986 National titles Outdoors: '97, '98, '99, '00, '01, '02, '03 Height/Weight 184 cm / 70 kg Indoors: '95, '00, '03 Club Mullsjö SOK (-'03), Hässelby SK ('04-) PB other events 100m 13.02 Huddinge 20.8.1994 Coach/Advisor Selfcoached 200m 26.65 Gävle 27.6.1992 Event 4x400m 400m 63.65 Enskede 16.6.1992 Personal bests 46.53 Sollentuna 27.5.2005 800m 2:31.7m Norrtälje 26.8.1989 Progression 800m 400m 400m i 60mH i 9.07 Solna 7.2.1993 2000 2:21.95i 100mH 14.98 Huddinge 21.8.1994 2001 - w 14.8m Gävle 9.9.1994 2002 - 52.10 51.54i LJ 5.73 Stockholm 15.8.1995 2003 1:51.07 49.07 49.79i TJ 11.74 Dallas,TX 21.3.1998 2004 1:47.07 47.50 47.61i SP 10.61 Gävle 9.9.1994 2005 1:48.38 46.53 47.79i ? 11.95 USA 1996 Major competitions 2003 European Youth Olympics 3 (800m) DT 24.66 Sollentuna 16.9.1992 2005 European Indoor Ch heat (800m) JT 36.60 Gävle 14.7.1999 European Junior Ch 1 (800m) Hep 4.952b Gävle 9-10.9.1994 Internat.