Ebba Jungmark
Ebba Jungmark (born March 10, 1987 in Onsala ) is a Swedish high jumper .
Jungmark played soccer and handball at Onsala BK until 2003 before turning to athletics . At the World Junior Athletics Championships in Beijing in 2006 , she was fifth in the high jump. The following year she won the bronze medal at the U23 European Championships in Debrecen and started at the World Championships in Osaka , where she missed the qualification for the final.
In 2008, Jungmark went to Washington State University and immediately won the NCAA indoor championships . However, she missed large parts of the outdoor season due to a stress fracture in her foot and eventually returned to Sweden. At the European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, she could not qualify for the final. In the following year, however, she achieved the most important success of her career to date at the European Indoor Championships in Paris , when she won the bronze medal with a skipped 1.96 m behind the Italian Antonietta Di Martino and the Spaniard Ruth Beitia .
At the Indoor World Championships in 2012 , Jungmark won the silver medal. In the outdoor season she was tenth at the European Championships. At the Olympic Games in London , she was eliminated in qualification.
In March 2013 she won the silver medal in the high jump at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden .
Ebba Jungmark starts for Mölndals AIK and is trained by Emil Predan and Johnny Holm.
Web links
- Ebba Jungmark in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Expressen : "Jag vill ju bli bäst i världen" (Swedish), June 28, 2009
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jungmark, Ebba |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish high jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Onsala |