Susann Sundkvist
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Nationality | Finnish | ||||||||
Born | (1957-12-08) 8 December 1957 (age 66) Larsmo, Finland | ||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||
Event | High jump | ||||||||
Coached by | Göran Brunell | ||||||||
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Susann Sundkvist (born 8 December 1957) is a Finnish athlete.[1][2][3][4][5] She competed in the women's high jump at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Sundkvist has won six consecutive Finnish championships in the High jump at the senior level. Her record has been 1.87 m since 1976. Sundkvist has improved the Finnish record six times from 1974 to 1976 (from 1.75 to 1.87 m). At club level she represented Idrottsföreningen Drott and Kokkola Veikko of Pietarsaar. She reached silver in the European Athletics U20 Championships in 1975 in Athens with a measure of 1.86 m. She was coached by Göran Brunell.
Sundkvist is the youngest winner of the Finnish high jump championship. The 1973 championship reached 15 years, 8 months and 2 days. It is also the youngest medal (14 years, 8 months, 4 days).
She won 1976 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships, because in that year some non-Italian athletes were invited to participate in some competitions.[6]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Performance | Notes |
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1976 | Olympic Games | ![]() | 15th | High jump | 1.84 m | [7] |
1977 | European Indoor Championships | ![]() | 10th | High jump | 1.80 m | |
1978 | European Indoor Championships | ![]() | 11th | High jump | 1.85 m |
References
- ^ "Susann Sundkvist – Mentoring Finland's next generation of women athletes". european-athletics.org. European Athletic Association. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ Palm, Päivi (18 December 2008). "Entiset urheilijat tukevat nykyisiä". Turun Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ "Hyppylajit". Sport.fi (in Finnish). Valo, Finnish Olympic Committee, Finnish Paralympic Committee, Kihu. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ Hiitelä, Juha (13 August 2016). "Tekeekö Kristiina Mäkelä maanantaina suomalaista olympiahistoriaa?". Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ Moisio, Jukka (18 June 2015). "Keskikesän taikaa radalla ja kentällä – yleisurheilun kautta aikain parhaat juhannustulokset". Etusuora (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Susann Sundqvist Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
External links
- Susann Sundkvist at World Athletics
- Susann Sundkvist at Olympedia
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