Angelica Bengtsson

Angelica Bengtsson ( born July 8, 1993 Väckelsång ) is a Swedish pole vaulter.

Career

Since her early childhood operation Bengtsson gymnastics and athletics. Initially she planned to be like her father to specialize in the javelin. She then turned, however, the pole vault, as they had already created by their gymnastic training good conditions for the exercise of this discipline.

Three days after her 16th birthday Bengtsson won in convincing fashion, the gold medal at the IAAF World Youth Championships 2009 in Brixen. With skipped 4.32m surpassed their second-placed compatriot Michaela Meijer by 22 centimeters.

In early 2010 they already proved their competitiveness in the adult population, as they triumphed at the Swedish Indoor Championships. In May they also with 4.47 m achieved a youth world record. However, they decided not to start at the European Championships in Barcelona to instead prepare for the World Junior Championships in Moncton. There, she won with a height of 4.25 m. The following month, she won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. The World IAAF honored her as a junior athlete of the year 2010.

On February 20, 2011 Bengtsson won the Swedish Junior Championships in the hall. With a height of 4.52 m skipped it improved the nearly six -year-old junior world record of German Silke Spiegelburg by four centimeters. At the same time, it exceeded both the Swedish indoor record as well as the Swedish outdoor record. Only two days later, she scored at the XL Galan in Stockholm three Junior World Records, as they increased their personal Hallenbestleistung initially to 4.53 m, 4.58 m and then finally to 4.63 m. With her ​​victory at the European Junior Championships in Tallinn, she jumped 4.57 meters a new championship record.

2012 occupied Bengtsson at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in tenth place and won the gold medal at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona. At the Olympic Games in London, she already was eliminated in the qualifying.

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