Wictor Petersson

Wictor Petersson
nation	Sweden
birthday	1st May 1998 (age 22)
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	21.15 m
Trainer	Hässleholms AIS (until 2013) Malmö AI (since 2014)
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
U23 European Championships bronze Gävle 2019 19.53 m  U20 world championships silver Bydgoszcz 2016 20.65 m (6 kg)  Youth World Championships bronze Cali 2015 21.56 m (5 kg)
last change: June 13, 2020

Wictor Petersson (born May 1, 1998 ) is a Swedish shot putter .

Athletic career

Wictor Petersson gained his first international experience in 2015 when he won the bronze medal in the shot put at the Youth World Championships in Cali with a width of 21.56 m with the 5 kg ball and with the 1.5 kg discus with 53, 02 m came eleventh. The following year he won the silver medal at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz with 20.65 m with the 6 kg ball and was fourth in the discus throw with 61.23 m. In 2017, he finished sixth and eighth at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto with 19.80 m and 54.90 m. Two years later he won the bronze medal in the shot put at the U23 European Championships in Gävle with 19.53 m behind the Poles Konrad Bukowiecki and Leonardo Fabbri from Italy. In addition, he qualified in the shot put for the first time for the World Championships in Doha , where he did not reach the final with 20.31 m .

In 2019 Petersson became the Swedish champion in the shot put outdoors and in 2019 and 2020 also indoors.

Personal bests

• Shot put: 20.94 m, June 11, 2020 in Oslo
  • Shot put (hall): 21.15 m, March 1, 2020 in Gothenburg

Web links

• Wictor Petersson in the database of World Athletics (English)