Moa Hjelmer

Moa Hjelmer ( born June 19, 1990 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish athlete, focusing on the 200 - and has specialized 400-meter run.

Hjelmer ran at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona in 2010 in the Swedish 4 x 100 - meter relay team, which reached the seventh place. In the U23 European Athletics Championships Ostrava 2011 she won the silver medal over 200 meters. On 13 August 2011 she presented with 51.58 s on a new Swedish record in the 400 -meter run and thus beat the previous record of Ann -Louise Skoglund 1986 by eleven hundredths of a second. About the same distance they reached at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, the semi-final round, while she was eliminated in the 200 - meter race already in the flow. At the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki Moa Hjelmer won the gold medal in the 400 meters. They improved with 51.13 s their own Swedish national record. In London was for them but at the Olympic Games already in the 1st round last stop.

In March 2013, it won the bronze medal in the 400 -meter run at the Indoor Athletics Championships 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

In qualifying for the World Athletics Championships 2013, it is - as later Green Tregaro - Gone with rainbow-colored fingernails at the start, to protest against the controversial legislation against homosexuals in Russia.