Stefan Holm

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Stefan Holm
Olympic Games
Gold 2004 Athens High jump
World Championships
Silver 2003 Paris High jump
European Championships
Silver 2002 Munich High jump
Bronze 2006 Gothenburg High jump

Stefan Christian Holm (born May 25, 1976) is a Swedish athlete competing in the high jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the World Championships, 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals in the European Championships. His personal record in high jump is 2.40 m (indoors 2005) and 2.36 m (outdoors 2004).

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[edit] Biography

Holm is the son of father Johnny and mother Elisabeth, born in Forshaga. Has a three year older sister named Veronica. Holm married Anna in 2005 and they have a son, Melwin, born in 2004.

Holm's big breakthrough on to the world athletics scene came in 2000, when he finished 4th at the Sydney Olympics with a leap of 2.32m. Although only 24 years old at the time, Holm had been high jumping for over half of his life.

Holm, who is trained by his father Johnny Holm, has not always been a high jumper. For many of his childhood years, Stefan played soccer (following in the footsteps of his father, who was at that time a goalkeeper in ÖDIK in the fourth division), but it wasn't until 1991 when Stefan realized that he had more potential as a high jumper than a footballer.

Holm has the distinction of jumping 2 m or higher in six different techniques. With his height, being only 1.81m, he shares the unofficial World Record of height jumped above own height (59 cm). He has taken part in a Decathlon where he jumped higher in the high jump than in the pole vault.

He lives in Karlstad, Sweden and competes for Kils AIK.

In 2004, Holm was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.

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[edit] International medals

[edit] High jump

[edit] Other victories

[edit] Personal bests

  • High jump
    • 2.36 metres (outdoors)
    • 2.40 metres (indoors)

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Olympic champions in men's high jump
1896: Ellery Clark | 1900: Irving Baxter | 1904: Samuel Jones | 1906: Cornelius Leahy | 1908: Harry Porter | 1912: Alma Richards | 1920: Richmond Landon | Harold Osborn | 1928: Robert King | 1932: Duncan McNaughton | 1936: Cornelius Johnson | 1948: John Winter | 1952: Walter Davis | 1956: Charles Dumas | 1960: Robert Shavlakadze | 1964: Valeriy Brumel | 1968: Dick Fosbury | 1972: Jüri Tarmak | 1976: Jacek Wszoła | 1980: Gerd Wessig | 1984: Dietmar Mögenburg | 1988: Gennadiy Avdeyenko | 1992: Javier Sotomayor | 1996: Charles Austin | 2000: Sergey Klyugin | 2004: Stefan Holm
Preceded by
Carolina Klüft		 Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal
2004		 Succeeded by
Kajsa Bergqvist
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