Stefan Holm
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Stefan Holm (born May 25, 1976 in Forshaga, Sweden) is an athlete competing in high jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the World Championships, 1 gold and 2 silver medals in the European Championships.
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Biography
Holm is an Olympic gold medalist. He won gold as the only athlete to jump 2.36 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. His personal record in high jump is 2.40 m (indoors 2005) and 2.36 m (outdoors 2004). Template:MedalTop Template:MedalSport Template:MedalGold Template:MedalBottom Stefan 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 merit of clearing at least 2 m in six different techniques. His height being 1.81m, he shares the unofficial World Record of height jumped above own height (59 cm).
He lives in Karlstad, Sweden and competes for Kils AIK.
International medals
High jump
- Gold medal, 2.40 metres, at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships, Madrid
- Gold medal, 2.36 metres, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens
- Gold medal, 2.35 metres, at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Athletics, Budapest
- Silver medal, 2.32 metres, at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, Paris
- Gold medal, 2.35 metres, at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Athletics, Birmingham
- Silver medal, 2.29 metres, at the 2002 European Athletics Championships, Munich
- Silver medal, 2.30 metres, at the 2002 European Indoor Athletics Championships, Vienna
- Gold medal, 2.32 metres, at the 2001 World Indoor Championships in Athletics, Lisbon
Personal bests
- High jump - 2.40 metres
External links
- Personal Home Page - (Swedish)
- Olympic Movement
- IAAF - International Association of Athletics Federations
- EAA - European Athletic Association
- BBC Sports Article - (2004 Summer Olympics)
| Olympic medalists in athletics (men) | 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 |
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