Angelica Bengtsson

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Angelica Bengtsson
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Angelica Bengtsson in July 2015
Personal information
Full nameAngelica Therese Bengtsson
Nationality Flag of Sweden.svg Swedish
Born (1993-07-08) 8 July 1993 (age 30)
Väckelsång, Sweden
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight51 kg (112 lb)
Website http://www.angelicabengtsson.com
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)outdoor: 4.80 m (2019)
indoor: 4.81 m (2019)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Amsterdam Pole vault
European Indoor Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Prague Pole vault
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Belgrade Pole vault
European U23 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Tallinn Pole vault
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Tampere Pole vault
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Moncton Pole vault
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2012 Barcelona Pole vault
European Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Tallinn Pole vault
Youth Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2010 Singapore Pole vault
World Youth Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Brixen Pole vault
Updated on February 25, 2019.

Angelica Therese Bengtsson (born 8 July 1993) is a Swedish track and field athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She became the first pole vault winner at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, 2010.

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Bengtsson has won gold medals at the 2009 World Youth Championships and the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She set a mark of 4.47 m for the youth world record for the event in 2010 and broke the world junior record with a vault of 4.63 m in 2011. Bengtsson placed tied 4th at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, China, having set a national record of 4.70 m in the final. She set a then-national record with 4.81 m, set indoor in Clermont-Ferrand, on February 24, 2019. [1] Bengtsson has won eleven national titles.

On 1 November 2021, she announced her retirement from pole vaulting. [2]

Biography

Bengtsson was born on 8 July 1993 in Väckelsång; her father is Swedish and her mother is Afro-Brazilian. [3] Bengtsson initially started out in gymnastics and also hoped to follow in her father's footsteps in the javelin throw. It quickly became apparent that she had a talent for pole vaulting; [4] however, and she began her career at club level for IFK Växjö, before going on to join Hässelby SK. She enjoyed her first global victory at the 2009 IAAF World Youth Championships, where at the age of sixteen she won the pole vault gold medal with a clearance of 4.32 metres. This was a significant winning margin of 22 cm over the rest of the field. [5]

In spite of her youth, she took the national senior title at the Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships, beating her Swedish rivals with a clearance of 4.30 m. [6] Bengtsson established herself as one of top youth athletes at the 2010 European Youth Olympic Trials in Moscow in May. Having already won the competition, she improved the world youth record to 4.42 m and then immediately improved upon this with a 4.47-metre clearance. She attempted to break the Swedish senior record (raising the bar to 4.52 m) but failed in her three vaults. Her winning mark was enough to qualify her for the senior 2010 European Athletics Championships, but she opted to focus on the younger age category competitions instead. [7] [8]

Building upon her youth gold from the previous year, she added another gold medal to her collection at the 2010 Junior World Championship in Moncton. Although windy conditions reduced the level of performance, a first time clearance at 4.15 m sealed her victory over the older girls and she added an extra ten centimetres between herself and Holly Bleasdale for a winning mark of 4.25 m. [9] Her achievements made her one of the headline athletes at the first ever Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. [5] She duly delivered on her favourite status by winning the competition at a height of 4.30 m. Dismissing the challenge of the Silke Spiegelburg's world junior record of 4.48 m, Bengtsson went straight for the Swedish senior record, but again 4.52 m proved too much for the young athlete. [10] [11]

Bengtsson achieved that mark with a first time clearance at the Swedish Indoor Championships in February 2011, claiming both the world junior record and Swedish senior record at the same time. [12]

At the 2019 World Championships final, Bengtsson broke her pole in her third attempt on 4.80 m, thus having the right to re-take the attempt. She cleared that jump, which gave her 6th place in the competition, as well as a new Swedish outdoor record. [13]

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
2009 World Youth Championships Brixen, Italy 1st4.32 m
2010 World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 1st 4.25 m
Youth Olympic Games Singapore 1st 4.30 m
2011 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 12th (q) 4.35 m
European Junior Championships Tallinn, Estonia 1st4.57 m
2012 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 10th 4.30 m
World Junior Championships Barcelona, Spain 1st 4.50 m
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 19th (q) 4.25 m
2013 European Indoor Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 9th (q) 4.46 m
European U23 Championships Tampere, Finland 3rd 4.55 m
World Championships Moscow, Russia 16th (q) 4.45 m
2014 European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 5th 4.45 m
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 3rd 4.70 m
European U23 Championships Tallinn, Estonia 1st 4.55 m
World Championships Beijing, China 4th 4.70 m
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 3rd 4.65 m
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 14th (q) 4.55 m
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia 3rd 4.55 m
World Championships London, United Kingdom 10th 4.55 m
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 11th 4.50 m
European Championships Berlin, Germany 6th 4.65 m
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 14th (q) 4.40 m
World Championships Doha, Qatar 6th 4.80 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 13th 4.50 m

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