Kajsa Roth

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Kajsa Roth
Personal information
NationalitySwedish
Born (2006-03-07) 7 March 2006 (age 19)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Pole vault
Club IFK Göteborg
Achievements and titles
Personal bestPole 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]

Career

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]

References

  1. "Kajsa Roth". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 Ripsweden, Elwira. ""You are never alone"". goteborgfriidrott.se. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  3. "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  4. "The U20 European Championship in Jerusalem is underway". goteborgfriidrott.se. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  5. "This is what happens during the closing day at ISM". Friidrott.se. 18 February 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  6. "Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  7. "Kajsa Roth took home the gold in the women's pole vault: "The goal was to win"". Friidrott.se. 18 February 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  8. "Swedish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  9. "Swedish Championships". World Athletics. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  10. "Duplantis sist – trots "Mondos" coachning". nyheter24.se. 24 August 2025. Retrieved 4 September 2025.
  11. Karlsson, Mattias (1 September 2025). "Historic Swedish squad for the World Athletics Championships". aftonbladet.se. Retrieved 3 September 2025.