Erika Kinsey

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Erika Kinsey
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Personal information
Birth nameErika Anna Kristina Wiklund
Born (1988-03-10) 10 March 1988 (age 35)
Nälden, Sweden
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Event(s) High jump
Long jump
Triple jump
College team Central Missouri Jennies
ClubTrångsvikens IF
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)High jump: 1.97 m (2015)
Medal record
European Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Hengelo High jump
Updated on 14 August 2015.

Erika Anna Kristina Kinsey (née Wiklund; born 10 March 1988) is a Swedish high jumper. She was European Junior Champion in 2007.

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Biography

Wiklund was born in Nälden on 10 March 1988. [1] She took up sports as a child, playing ice hockey and association football in addition to competing in athletics; she did not start concentrating on the high jump until she was 14. [2] She was a leading age group jumper, clearing 1.86 m in 2004; the jump ranked her fourth on the world youth list that year, and second among athletes born in 1988 or later. [3] [4] In the following years her development stagnated, and she did not improve her personal best again until the 2007 indoor season; she placed fifth at the 2005 World Youth Championships and eighth at the 2006 World Junior Championships. [3] [5] In addition to the high jump, she occasionally competed in the long jump; she won both events at the 2005 Finland-Sweden youth international. [1] [5]

Wiklund won gold in the high jump at the 2007 European Junior Championships in Hengelo. In a very close competition, the top four all cleared 1.82 m; Wiklund later said she did not realize she had won on countback until a photographer told her. [1] Wiklund improved her personal best to 1.91 m in 2008, but concentrating on athletics exhausted her mentally; she dropped the sport in 2009 and moved to Norway, where her brother lived, taking up ice hockey again. [6] [7] She had a brief comeback in 2011, winning bronze with a jump of 1.82 m at the Swedish championships. [5] [8]

In 2013 Wiklund decided to make a second, more serious comeback; she resumed high jumping in 2014, now as a student at the University of Central Missouri. [8] In the summer of 2014 she married Daniel Kinsey, an American, and changed her name to Erika Kinsey. [1] [6] She attempted to qualify for the 2014 European Championships in Zürich, but failed to reach the qualifying standard of 1.90 m; she had a season best of 1.88 m both indoors and outdoors. [5] [6]

Kinsey's results improved in 2015; she was NCAA Division II champion in the high jump both indoors and outdoors, and in the triple jump indoors, helping the Central Missouri Jennies win their first team titles. [5] [9] She unexpectedly cleared 1.97 m at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary, improving her personal best from the MIAA outdoor championships by five centimetres; the jump moved her to third on the Swedish all-time list (behind Kajsa Bergqvist and Emma Green), and exceeded the qualifying standard for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing. [5] [7] She debuted in the IAAF Diamond League in July 2015 in Lausanne, jumping 1.94 m and placing third. [10]

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References

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  3. 1 2 Svärdkrona, Zendry (23 July 2007). "Bättre än Kajsa". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "High Jump - women - youth - outdoor - 2004". International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Erika Kinsey at Tilastopaja (registration required)
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  9. ↑ "UCM's Erika Kinsey Qualifies for Track and Field World Championships". University of Central Missouri Athletics. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
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