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Elin Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling is a retired Swedish gymnast. She competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in the obsolete event team portable apparatus. In 1956, she also won a bronze on the vault, the only Swedish gymnast to win an individual Olympic medal. Her landing was described as one of the best olympic finishes of all time.
Mamma Andersson is a Swedish contemporary artist. She is based in Stockholm and is married to artist Jockum Nordström.
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Roos is a surname with multiple origins. In Dutch, Low German, Swiss German and Estonian “Roos” means “Rose” and the surname is often of toponymic origin In 2007, 8600 people were named Roos and another 2880 “de Roos” in the Netherlands. In the UK, Roos may be of patronymic origin (“Andrews”) or indicating red hair. The name is also relatively common in Sweden, Finland and Estonia . People with the name "Roos" or "de Roos" include:
Fanny Matilda Charlotta Roos is a Swedish athlete specialising in the shot put. She won a silver medal at the 2021 European Indoor Championships, while setting an outright national record of 19.29 meters in the final. In doing so, Roos made history by becoming the first Swedish woman in 93 years, and the second overall, to medal in a throwing event at the Olympics, World-, or European Championships. The first to do so was Ruth Svedberg, who won a bronze medal in the discus throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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- 1 2 3 "Ann-Sofi Roos (Carlsson)" (in Swedish). Swedish Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 25 February 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2010.
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