Personal information | |
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Nationality | Swedish |
Born | 7 March 2006 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Pole vault |
Club | IFK Göteborg |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | Pole vault: 4.42m (2025) |
Kajsa Roth (born 7 March 2006) is a Swedish pole vaulter. She is a multiple-time national champion, having won titles both indoors and outdoors from 2024. [1]
She competed in gymnastics before taking-up athletics at the age of eleven years-old, and quickly developed an aptitude for the pole vault. She trained from an early age as a member of IFK Göteborg. [2] She cleared four metres to qualify for the final of the pole vault at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, Israel in August 2023, before ultimately placing eighth overall. [3] [4]
Roth set a new personal best of 4.15 metres in early 2024. [5] Shortly afterwards she won the Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships for the first time in February 2024 in Karlstad, with a clearance or 4.12 metres. [6] [7] Unfortunately, she suffered a stress reaction in her shin and was therefore unable to compete during the summer of 2024. [2] She returned to retain her senior national title at the Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2025 in Växjö. [8]
She won the outdoors Swedish Athletics Championships in 2025. [9] That year, she increased her personal best to 4.42 metres. She placed third with 4.38 metres competing for Sweden at the Finnkampen tournament in Stockholm, Sweden in August 2025, finishing behind the experienced Finnish pair Elina Lampela and Wilma Murto. [10]
She was selected for the Swedish team to compete at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025. [11]