Stig Pettersson

Stig Pettersson
Medal record
Men’s athletics
Competitor for  Sweden
European Championships
Silver 1962 Belgrade High jump
Bronze 1958 Stockholm High jump

Stig Roland Helmer "Stickan" Pettersson (born 26 March 1935) is a Swedish high jumper. Pettersson won two medals at the European Championships and competed in three Olympic Games.

Career

Pettersson placed just outside the medals in three Olympic Games. At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne he jumped 2.06 m for 4th;[1] he was briefly in a tie for the Olympic record, but it was broken during the competition.[1] Four years later in Rome he cleared 2.09 m for 5th,[1] and in Tokyo in 1964 he placed 4th again, despite his best Olympic jump of 2.14 m.[1]

At the 1958 European Championships, held in his home city of Stockholm, Pettersson won the bronze medal with a jump of 2.10 m.[2][3] At the 1962 Championships in Belgrade he cleared 2.13 m, enough for silver behind future Olympic Champion Valeriy Brumel.[2][3]

Pettersson held the Swedish high jump record for almost eight years,[4] and his eventual personal best of 2.16 m from 1962 was at the time one of the best in the world.[5] Track & Field News ranked him in the world's top 10 in every year from 1956 to 1964.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Stig Pettersson Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "HÖJDHOPP - FRÅN FORNTID TILL NUTID" (PDF) (in Swedish). Svenska Friidrottsförbundet.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tilastopaja profile for Stig Pettersson
  4. ↑ Johansson, Bengt. "Swedish Records". Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  5. ↑ Löfvenhaft, Sören (19 July 2004). "Stilen fick svenskarna att hoppa högt" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter/Västerbottens Friidrottsförbund. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "World Rankings — Men’s High Jump" (PDF). Track & Field News.