Andreas Almgren

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Andreas Almgren (2015)

Full name Andreas Almgren
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 12th June 1995 (age 25)
place of birth Sollentuna ,  Sweden
size 177 cm
Weight 66 kg
Career
discipline 800 m
Best performance 1: 45.59 min
society Turebergs FK
Trainer Urban Aruhn
status active
Medal table
U20 world championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
IAAF logo U20 world championships
bronze Eugene 2014 800 m
last change: June 5, 2020

Andreas Almgren (born June 12, 1995 in Sollentuna ) is a Swedish athlete who competes in the medium-distance runs .

Athletic career

Andreas Almgren comes from the Sollentuna community and has a sister. At the age of 10 he started athletics, the sport that his mother also played. At first he also played soccer in addition to athletics, but decided to focus on athletics after the stress of both sports became too high. He has been competing in the 800 meter run since 2010. A year later he competed over this distance at the U18 World Championships in Lille. He survived the preliminary run, but was eliminated in 1: 52.46 minutes in the semifinals. Overall, he finished 19th. In August 2012 he became Swedish U18 champion and improved his best time over 800 m one week later to 1: 50.45 min. In 2013 Almgren was the Swedish U20 indoor champion over 1500 meters and won the national championship title over 800 meters in the same age group in the summer. At the Swedish championships for adults in September he stayed for the first time under a time of 1: 50.00 min over 800 meters in a competition. In July 2014 he competed at the U20 World Championships in the USA. He moved into the final, in which he won the bronze medal with a time of 1: 45.65 minutes. His time meant a new Swedish junior record over 800 meters, and at that time he was the second fastest time ever run by a Swede over this distance. Subsequently, a month later took part in the European Championships in Zurich. There he reached the next round after the preliminary run, but then narrowly retired as sixth in his semi-finals. Overall, he took tenth place.

In spring 2015 he also competed over 800 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Prague. After the preliminary and semi-finals, he achieved a time of 1: 47.78 min in the final, with which he finished fourth. In August first appeared at world championships . In his lead he ran the sixth fastest time in 1: 48.06 minutes and was eliminated. Overall, he landed in 25th place. In the following years he could not qualify for international championships because he had to fight with numerous injuries in the following three years, for example in 2018 on the hip. In 2019 he made the decision to focus on the 1,500-meter run to compensate for the lack of speed that he lacks in order to be competitive in the world class over 800 m. In February 2020, when he won the Swedish Indoor Championships in 7: 48.34 minutes, he set a new national record over 3000 meters.

So far, Almgren has won 4 gold medals at national championships, twice over 800 and once over 1500 meters in the open air, as well as the one indoor title over 3000 meters.

Major competitions

year event place space discipline time
Starts for SwedenSwedenSweden 
2011 U18 world championships FranceFrance Lille 19th 800 m 1: 52.26 min
2014 U20 world championships United StatesUnited States Eugene 3. 800 m 1: 45.65 min
European championships SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich 10. 800 m 1: 47.55 min
2015 European Indoor Championships Czech RepublicCzech Republic Prague 4th 800 m 1: 47.78 min
World championships China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 25th 800 m 1: 48.06 min
open air
Hall
  • 800 m: 1: 46.56 min, February 19, 2015, Stockholm
  • 1500 m: 4: 04.86 min, February 24, 2013, Uddevalla
  • 3000 m : 7: 48.34 min, February 22, 2020, Växjö , (Swedish record)

Web links

Commons : Andreas Almgren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Almgren: Lärdomar att ta med sig men en säsong att glömma. In: springlfa.se. September 1, 2018, accessed June 5, 2020 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ Entry on sok.se
  3. ↑ Linus Lindahl: Svenskt skrällbrons i JVM. In: svt.se. July 28, 2014, accessed June 5, 2020 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Andreas Almgren nystarten njuter av. In: stockholmdirekt.se. September 5, 2019, accessed June 5, 2020 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Almgren, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish middle distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Sollentuna , Sweden