Milker Svärd Jacobsson

Milker Svärd Jacobsson
Melker Svärd Jacobsson (2019)
Full name	Milker Svärd Jacobsson
nation	Sweden
birthday	8th January 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Lund ,  Sweden
size	188 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	5.71 m (open air) 5.82 m (hall)
society	Örgryte IS
Trainer	Gustav Hultgren
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U18 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European Indoor Championships bronze Glasgow 2019 Pole vault  U18 world championships silver Lille 2011 Pole vault
last change: August 20, 2020

Melker Svärd Jacobsson (born January 8, 1994 in Lund ) is a Swedish athlete who specializes in the pole vault .

Life

Melker Svärd Jacobsson comes from the city of Lund. He first played hockey before taking up athletics and pole vaulting in Malmö at the age of ten. In Malmö he attended a school with a sporting profile and moved to Gothenburg in 2015, where he has been training under the guidance of Gustav Hultgren ever since.

Athletic career

Svärd Jacobsson first took part in pole vault competitions in his Swedish homeland in 2009. At the national championships, he was able to occupy ninth place. Just one year later, he jumped the five-meter mark and qualified for the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. He traveled there in August with a best performance of 5.11 m and was able to move into the final. In it, however, he only jumped 4.85 m and thus narrowly missed the podium in fourth. In 2011 he was Swedish indoor runner-up with a jump of 5.35 m. He was able to almost confirm this height in Recklinghausen in June with 5.33 m and traveled a month later to the U18 World Championships in Lille. As in the youth games, he moved into the final, in which he was runner-up with 5.15 m. A year later he started in the older age group at the U20 World Championships in Barcelona. In the final he set a new best in the open air with a jump of 5.35 m, finishing the competition in sixth place. By September he had even improved to 5.48 m.

In 2013, Svärd Jacobsson started at the European Indoor Championships in his Swedish homeland for the first time in an international adult championship. Although he also set a new indoor record in qualifying with 5.50 m, this was not enough for the final. Overall, he finished 14th. In July he jumped 5.50 m outdoors. In his first competition in 2014 in the open air season, he climbed to 5.60 m and was able to start at the European Championships in Zurich in August . There he was only able to jump 5.30 m in the qualification and was eliminated as 19th overall. As a result, injuries threw him back again and again. At first, bone deposits, with which he has been struggling since he was ten, made it almost impossible for him to move. In autumn 2014, he had an operation on his hip because of this. In 2015, problems arose in his groin that puzzled several doctors, physiotherapists and osteopaths because they had no explanation for the pain. Due to the persistent pain, he missed the entire 2015 season and even thought about giving up competitive sport. In 2016, he went to Munich for treatment by Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt , who, before quitting his job at FC Bayern Munich , also treated athletics stars like Usain Bolt , where the problem that arose due to a weakening of the stomach was resolved was. This made Svärd Johansson fit in time for the 2016 season. In April he was able to score 5.70 m in the USA and thus also qualified for the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. However, he could not start there in August due to Achilles tendon problems. A month earlier he made it into the finals of the European Championships in Amsterdam, where he was no longer able to start due to the emerging Achilles tendon problems. In 2017 he became the first Swedish champion.

In 2018 he finished ninth at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 5.70 m and was then able to defend the national championship title. In August he stayed at the European Championships in Berlin without a valid attempt. In 2019, Svärd Jacobsson set his indoor best performance with 5.82 m in February and competed at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow a month later . There he celebrated his greatest sporting success to date by winning the bronze medal. In August he set up his best performance in the open air with 5.71 m and thus qualified for the World Championships in Doha. However, he was not able to start there again. Until 2020 he was three times Swedish champion and two Swedish indoor champion.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	height
Starts for Sweden
2010	Youth Olympic Games	Singapore	4th	Pole vault	4.85 m
2011	U18 world championships	Lille	2.	Pole vault	5.15 m
2012	U20 world championships	Barcelona	6th	Pole vault	5.35 m
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg	14th	Pole vault	5.50 m
2014	European championships	Zurich	19th	Pole vault	5.30 m
2016	European championships	Amsterdam	14th	Pole vault	5.50 m
	Olympic Summer Games	Rio de Janeiro		Pole vault	DNS
2018	Indoor world championships	Birmingham	9.	Pole vault	5.70 m
	European championships	Berlin	32.	Pole vault	ogV
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow	3.	Pole vault	5.75 m
	World championships	Doha		Pole vault	DNS

Personal best

open air

• Pole vault : 5.71 m, August 11, 2019, Bydgoszcz

Hall

• Pole vault: 5.82 m, February 10, 2019, Bærum

Web links

• Melker Svard Jacobsson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Melker Svard Jacobsson in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on the website of the Swedish Olympic Committee
2. ^ Erik Karlsson: Comebacksuccén efter mardrömsåret ( sv ) aftonbladet.se. April 10, 2016. Accessed August 20, 2020.
3. ↑ Results on european-athletics.org
4. ↑ Kent Jönsson: Bonos läkare räddade OS-hoppets karriär ( sv ) sydsvenskan.se. May 17, 2016. Accessed August 20, 2020.
5. ↑ Svärd Jacobsson commissar OS - skadad ( sv ) expressen.se. August 12, 2016. Accessed August 20, 2020.