Lisa Gunnarsson

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Lisa Gunnarsson
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Lisa Gunnarsson at the 2020 Bauhaus Galan meeting in Stockholm
Personal information
Full nameLisa Ulrika Gunnarsson
Born (1999-08-20) 20 August 1999 (age 24)
Stockholm, Sweden
Height171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
CountrySweden
Sport Track and field
Event Pole vault
Club Louisiana State University (USA)
Virginia Tech (USA)
Hässelby SK (Sweden)
Stade Français (France)
Coached byAlain Donias
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)outdoor: 4.60 m (2018)
indoor: 4.55 m (2017)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
World U20 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Tampere Pole vault
European U20 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Grosseto Pole vault
European U23 Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Tallinn Pole vault
Updated on 2019-03-07

Lisa Ulrika Gunnarsson (born 20 August 1999) is a Swedish athlete who specialises in the pole vault. [1] Her personal bests in the event, 4.50 metres outdoors and 4.55 indoors, are both World youth best performances (under 18). Gunnarsson finished sixth at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and has won two French Championship titles.

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Biography

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Gunnarsson has only lived in Sweden for about three years, having spent most of her life abroad due to her father's professional assignments. She has lived in Sweden (twice), Argentina, Luxembourg (twice), France (twice) and since 2018 the United States. [2]

Gunnarsson started out as a very promising gymnast and was a member of the Swedish junior national team. At the time of the Summer Olympics in London she was practicing gymnastics for thirty hours a week. But as she watched her big role model in the sport, Jonna Adlerteg, finish 39th in the games' all-around competition she told her mother, Ulrika: "I'm not training this much just to finish 39th at the Olympics. I want to win gold!" That was when she decided not to invest any more time in gymnastics. [3] In her final competition representing the French club, Angers Gymnastique, Gunnarsson won the individual all-around title in the category "National B 13" at the French National Championships held in Troyes 4–6 May 2012. She scored 13.833 on the vault, 10.633 on the uneven bars, 9.466 on the balance beam and 12.466 on the floor exercise. Her total score for all four events was 46.398 points. [4]

Gunnarsson took up athletics at the age of 12, after she had moved to Paris, France with her parents. She first tried pole vaulting in the spring of 2013 and, despite injuring herself after a fall during her second practice, she decided to give it another try. That turned out to be the right decision. Gunnarsson had a natural talent for pole vaulting and cleared 2.40 metres in her very first competition on 27 April. Just 50 days later she had improved her personal best to 3.42. When asked what she thinks is the key to her rapid improvement in the event, Gunnarsson answered that she is very grateful of her gymnastics background which has provided her with the strength and flexibility required for pole vaulting. Gunnarsson has previously attended a school in Nantes, but in October 2016 she decided to move back to Paris, to be closer to her parents who live there. In 2016, Gunnarsson attended INSEP, a national training institute for elite athletes, where she was coached by Alain Donias. She has competed for the French athletics club Stade Français, as well as the Swedish club Hässelby SK. [5] In 2018, she competed for Virginia Tech as a college freshman. As of 2019, she competes for Louisiana State University. [6]

NCAA

YearCompetitionPositionEventTime
Representing Louisiana State University Tigers
2021 NCAA Div 1 Outdoor Track & Field Championships 1st Pole Vault 4.40 m (14 ft 5 in)
2021 Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships2nd Pole Vault 4.49 m (14 ft 8+34 in)
NCAA Div 1 Indoor Track & Field Championships 1st Pole Vault 4.56 m (14 ft 11+12 in)
2021 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships3rd Pole Vault 4.35 m (14 ft 3+14 in)
20202020 Southeastern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships1st Pole Vault 4.46 m (14 ft 7+12 in)
20192019 Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships6th Pole Vault 4.16 m (13 ft 7+34 in)
Representing Virginia Tech Hokies
2018 NCAA Div 1 Outdoor Track & Field Championships [7] 3rd Pole Vault 4.40 m (14 ft 5 in)
2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships2nd Pole Vault 4.45 m (14 ft 7 in)
NCAA Div 1 Indoor Track & Field Championships [8] 4th Pole Vault 4.41 m (14 ft 5+12 in)
2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships1st Pole Vault 4.35 m (14 ft 3+14 in)


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Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
2015 European U20 Championships Eskilstuna, Sweden5th4.10 m
European Youth Olympic Festival Tbilisi, Georgia2nd4.15 m
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands23rd (q) 4.00 m
World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland7th 4.10 m
2017 European Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia6th 4.55 m
European U20 Championships Grosseto, Italy1st4.40 m
World Championships London, United Kingdom17th (q) 4.35 m
2018 World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland2nd 4.35 m
European Championships Berlin, Germany13th (q) 4.35 m
2021 European U23 Championships Tallinn, Estonia3rd 4.40 m
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States 16th (q) 4.35 m
European Championships Munich, Germany 24th (q) 4.10 m


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