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| Born | 14 June 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long-distance running, Middle-distance running | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Carmen Cernjul (born 14 June 2007) is a Swedish middle-distance and long-distance runner. [1]
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Carmen Cernjul (born 14 June 2007) is a Swedish middle-distance and long-distance runner. [1]
She was a footballer in the academy at Hammarby Fotboll (women) and was selected for the Swedish under-18 national women's football team, before opting to focus on athletics. [2] She is a member of Spårvägens GoIF. [3]
Cernjul made her international championship debut at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia, where she entered the 800m but failed to advance from the heats. [4]
She won her semi-final heat before winning a bronze medal in the final over 800 metres at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. [5] [6]
She set a Swedish under-20 junior record indoors over 3000 metres running 9:08.42 in January 2025. [7] [8] Later that year, Cernjul set a new Swedish junior record in the 5000 meters with a time of 15:38.86. In June, Cernjul improved her personal best in the 1500 meters in Jessheim, Norway, finishing in 4:11.61. [9] She later lowered that personal best to 4:10.64 that sunmer. [10]
She won a silver medal over 1500 metres at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, finishing behind Lyla Belshaw of Great Britain, running 4:15.00. [11] [12] At the same championships, she also won a silver medal in the 3000 metres behind Innes FitzGerald of Great Britain. [13] [14]