Stig Pettersson

Stig Pettersson
Personal information
Born 26 March 1935 (1935-03-26) (age 80)
Stockholm, Sweden
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) High jump
Club Kronobergs IK, Stockholm
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 2.16 m (1962)[1]
Medal record
Competitor for  Sweden
European Athletics Championships
1962 Belgrade High jump
1958 Stockholm High jump

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

Pettersson placed just outside the medals in three Olympic Games. At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne he jumped 2.06 m finishing fourth;[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 the fifth place,[1] and in Tokyo in 1964 he placed fourth 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 2 3 4 5 "Stig Pettersson Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 "HÖJDHOPP - FRÅN FORNTID TILL NUTID" (pdf) (in Swedish). Svenska Friidrottsförbundet.
  3. 1 2 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.
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