Stig Pettersson
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| Full name | Stig Roland Helmer Pettersson | |||||||||
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| birthday | March 26, 1935 | |||||||||
| place of birth | Stockholm , Sweden | |||||||||
| size | 190 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg | |||||||||
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| discipline | high jump | |||||||||
| Best performance | High jump: 2.16 m | |||||||||
| society | Kronobergs IK | |||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||
| End of career | 1965 | |||||||||
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Stig Roland Helmer Pettersson (born March 26, 1935 in Stockholm ) is a former Swedish athlete who specialized in the high jump .
Active career
Pettersson became the first Swedish champion in high jump in 1956 and was thus qualified for the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . In Melbourne, Pettersson easily managed the qualifying height of 1.92 m. In the final he jumped the Olympic record with 2.06 m. Three other jumpers had also mastered this height, Pettersson was the only one only in the third attempt. At 2.08 m it was over for him, he finished fourth behind Igor Kaschkarow from the Soviet Union. The American Charles Dumas won ahead of the Australian Chilla Porter .
1957 and 1958 Pettersson was again Swedish champion. At the European Championships in 1958, which were held in Stockholm, he jumped 2.10 m and was behind the Czechoslovak Jíři Lanský with the same height but more failed attempts in 3rd place. European champion was Pettersson's teammate Richard Dahl . Further state championships followed in 1959 and 1960. He jumped a new Swedish record in 1960 with 2.13 m.
At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , Pettersson again easily reached the qualifying height, this time 2.00 m. In the final, he jumped 2.09 m, but remained in 5th place in 1961 and 1962, he won the Swedish national championships for the sixth and seventh time in a row. In 1962 he improved the Swedish record to 2.16 m. This record could only be improved in 1968. In 1962 the European Championships took place in Belgrade . With 2.13 m Pettersson won the silver medal behind Valeri Brumel from the Soviet Union.
In 1964, Stig Pettersson was the eighth and final Swedish champion. For the third time he took in Tokyo at the Olympic Games in part. Again he qualified for the final. He jumped 2.14 m, but remained in the thankless fourth place as in 1956. In 1965 he ended his active career. Between 1956 and 1964, Pettersson was one of the ten best high jumpers in the world, according to the US athletics magazine Track & Field News . In 1958 he even topped the list.
Later career
At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Stig Pettersson was team leader for the Swedish athletes. At the opening ceremony he was the flag bearer of the Swedish team.
Web links
- Stig Pettersson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ world rankings in the high jump by Track & Field News (engl.) ( Page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Pettersson, Stig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pettersson, Stig Roland Helmer (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |