Robert Kronberg

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Kronberg ( Leif Robert Kronberg ; born August 15, 1976 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish hurdler who specializes in the 110-meter course .

Life

In 1997 he won his first national title in the 60 m hall . Further indoor titles followed from 2000 to 2005, 2008 and 2009. In the open air, he was Swedish champions ten times in a row from 1997 to 2006.

At the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997 and in Seville in 1999 , he was eliminated in the quarter-finals. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2000 , he made the jump to the final and finished eighth. The following year he was fifth at the World Championships in Edmonton , and in 2002 he was fifth at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna and seventh at the European Championships in Munich .

While he finished seventh at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003 and sixth in Budapest in 2004 , he failed in the semifinals at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

In 2005 he finally won his first medal at a major international event at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid with bronze. A semi-final at the World Championships in Helsinki was followed by a fifth place at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he made it to the semi-finals again.

Robert Kronberg is 1.81 m tall and weighs 80 kg. In 2006 he recorded a version of their piece The Fire Burns Forever from the album Threshold with the power metal band Hammerfall , which was released on the single Natural High .

Personal bests

  • 60 m (hall): 6.79 s, February 7, 2004, Gothenburg
  • 50 m hurdles (hall): 6.46 s, March 4, 2001, Sindelfingen
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 7.54 s, March 9, 2003, Lisbon
  • 110 m hurdles: 13.35 s, July 4, 2001, Lausanne (Swedish record)
    • Hall: 13.50 s, February 13, 2003, Tampere

Web links

Footnotes

  1. gbrathletics: Swedish Indoor Championships
  2. gbrathletics: Swedish Championships