Kajsa Bergqvist
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Full name | Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden | 12 October 1976||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | High jump (outdoor): 2.06 m High jump (indoor): 2.08 m (world record) Heptathlon: 4952 points[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 18 August 2013. |
Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist (Swedish pronunciation:
Biography
Career
Bergqvist was born up in Sollentuna Municipality in Stockholm County. Her interest in sport began when she was 6 years old and tried sports such as football, volleyball, badminton, swimming, and cross-country skiing, none of which was able to keep her interest.
When she was 10 years old, she was persuaded by her big brother, Anders, to compete in
Bergqvist continued to train in several athletic events until she was 15 years old, when a new coach, Bengt Jönsson, came to her club, Turebergs FK. Soon after his arrival, he and Bergqvist chose to concentrate on the event that was her best, high jump.
She attended
During 2001–2008 she lived in Monaco.
By 2004, lack of progress and long travel distances caused Bergqvist to end the relationship with her coach, Bengt Jönsson. She joined a group of athletes (including Olympic gold medalist Christian Olsson) under Yannick Tregaro.
At a competition in Båstad, on 18 July 2004, Bergqvist tore her Achilles tendon. Due to the injury, she missed the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but managed to return to form just in time for the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki. There she made an impressive series of jumps to edge out Chaunté Howard for the gold medal. Her Helsinki victory earned the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal for that year.
In 2006, she had been ranked the number one female high jumper in the world but failed to win in that summer's European Championships in front of her home fans in Gothenburg, having to settle for a bronze medal.
At the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in Arnstadt, Germany, on 4 February 2006, Bergqvist set her first world record: she made an indoor leap of 2.08 on her first attempt, surpassing Heike Henkel's 2.07 m leap on 8 February 1992. The record was not totally unexpected since she jumped 2.00 m already in the warm up for the competition.
Bergqvist chose not to compete in the
Bergqvist married director Måns Herngren on New Year's Eve in 2007 and shortly afterwards, on 7 January 2008, announced that she would retire from high jumping. She had found her life entering "a new phase" and that she no longer felt as motivated to keep competing, even after her break in 2007.
Post-athletics
Since her retirement, she has been an
In 2021 Bergqvist became head coach of the Swedish national athletics team.[5]
Personal life
Bergqvist married director Måns Herngren on New Year's Eve in 2007. The couple announced their divorce in early 2011.[6]
In December 2011, Bergqvist confirmed in an interview that she is in a relationship with a woman and stated: "As lesbian as I feel today, as heterosexual I felt when I was together with Måns. But when I get old and look back on my life, perhaps one can think that I'm bisexual." This announcement came after a period of rumours concerning Bergqvist's personal life.[7]
International medals
High jump
- Olympic Games
- World Championships in Athletics
- World Indoor Championships in Athletics
- 2003, Birmingham– 2.01 m – Gold
- 2001, Lisbon– 2.00 m – Gold
- European Athletics Championships
- 2006, Gothenburg – 2.01 m — Bronze
- 2002, Munich – 1.98 m — Gold
- European Indoor Athletics Championships
- 1997, Turku – 1.93 m – Silver
- World Junior Championships in Athletics
- European Athletics Junior Championships
- 1995, Nyíregyháza – 1.89 m – Silver
Other victories
High jump
- 1997: Bloomington, IN NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship– 1.93 m
- 1999: – 1.90m
- 1999: Brussels (Golden League) – 1.97 m
- 2000: Stockholm (Grand Prix) – 1.96 m
- 2001: Vaasa (European Cup first league) – 1.92 m; Rome (Golden League) – 1.98 m; Monaco (Golden League) – 1.99 m; Berlin (Golden League) – 1.96 m
- 2002: Seville (European Cup first league) – 1.98 m; Lausanne (Grand Prix) – 2.04 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League-meet) – 1.97 m; Stockholm (Grand Prix) – 2.00 m; Brussels (Golden League-meet) – 1.99 m
- 2003: Ostrava (Grand Prix) – 2.01 m; Lappeenranta (European Cup first league) – 1.96 m; Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt – 2.06 m (outdoor personal best)
- 2005: World Athletics Final) – 2.00 m
- 2006: World Athletics Final) – 1.98 m
- 2007; Vaasa (European Cup first league) – 1.92 m; Sheffield (Grand Prix) – 1.95 m
See also
References
- ^ Kajsa Bergqvist's IAAF profile
- ^ "2.08 world indoor high jump record for Bergqvist in Arnstadt". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-09-11.
- IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-09-11.
- ^ Kajsa Bergqvist blir förbundskapten – lämnar SVT, 4 June 2021
- ^ Ågren, Joel (13 February 2011). "Så går Kajsa vidare". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Roström-Andersson, Sofia (20 December 2011). "Kajsa Bergqvist kommer ut". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 10 October 2019.
External links
- Kajsa Bergqvist at Olympics.com
- Kajsa Bergqvist at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- "IAAF – World Rankings – Women's High Jump". Archived from the original on 1 August 2005. Retrieved 31 August 2005.
- "EAA – Kajsa Bergqvist's biography". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 August 2005.
- "Swedish high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist retires". Associated Press. Retrieved 7 January 2008.
- BBC Sports Article – (2005 World Championships in Athletics)