Susanna Kallur

Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur 2013
Full name	Susanna Elisabeth Kallur
nation	Sweden
birthday	16th February 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Huntington ,  United States
size	170 cm
Weight	61 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	7.68 s ( 60 m hurdles ) 12.49 s ( 100 m hurdles )
Trainer	Torbjörn Eriksson
National squad	since 1998
status	resigned
End of career	2017
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championship 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 2 ×
Indoor world championships bronze Moscow 2006 60 m hurdles  European championships gold Gothenburg 2006 100 m hurdles  European Indoor Championships gold Madrid 2005 60 m hurdles gold Birmingham 2007 60 m hurdles  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2003 100 m hurdles  Junior World Championships bronze Annecy 1998 100 m hurdles gold Santiago 2000 100 m hurdles bronze Santiago 2000 4 × 100 m
last change: March 5, 2017

Susanna Elisabeth Kallur (born February 16, 1981 in Huntington ) is a former Swedish athlete . Her greatest success was winning the 2006 European Championships in the 100 meter hurdles . She also holds the world record in the 60-meter hurdles.

life and career

The hurdler is the daughter of ice hockey player Anders Kallur and the twin sister of Jenny Kallur .

In 2005, Kallur won gold in the 60 meter hurdles at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid . She was able to successfully defend this title two years later in Birmingham . At the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006 , she won bronze over the 60 meter hurdles. In front of her home crowd, she won the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg in 12.59 seconds over 100 meter hurdles. For this she was honored by the listeners and viewers of the Swedish radio with the radio sport Jerringpris .

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , Kallur finished fourth in 12.51 seconds, just 0.05 seconds behind the winner Michelle Perry .

In February 2017, she announced the end of her career. Kallur had her last appearance at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2017 . There she made it to the finals and finished eighth.

Personal

Kallur lives and trains in Falun with her club Falu IK. At a height of 1.70 m, her competition weight is 61 kg. In June 2013 she became the mother of a daughter.

Personal bests

open air

• 100 m: 11.30 s (0.0 m / s), on August 22, 2006 in Malmö
• 200 m: 23.32 s (−0.3 m / s), on August 28, 2005 in Gothenburg
• 800 m: 2: 27.87 min, on September 6, 1998 in Huddinge
• 100 m hurdles: 12.49 s (+0.9 m / s), on September 16, 2007 in Berlin

Hall

• 60 m: 7.24 s on March 3, 2007 in Birmingham
• 60 m hurdles: 7.68 s, on February 10, 2008 in Karlsruhe ( world record )

Web links

Commons : Susanna Kallur  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Susanna Kallur
• Susanna Kallur in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Tears Did Shed , Aftonbladet (Swedish), accessed February 24, 2017.
2. ↑ http://www.dlv-xml.de/Storage/EventFiles/17IXXXXXXXXX10302/13387.pdf
3. ↑ WORLD INDOOR RECORD-HOLDER KALLUR EYES RIO RETURN. December 14, 2013, accessed June 6, 2016 .