Robert Kronberg

Robert Kronberg ( Leif Robert Kronberg, born August 15, 1976 in Gothenburg ) is a Swedish hurdler who specializes in the 110- meter track.

In 1997, he won in the hall about 60 m his first national title. More Halle title followed from 2000 to 2005, 2008 and 2009. Outdoors he was about 110 m from 1997 to 2006 ten times in a row, the Swedish championship.

At the World Athletics Championships in 1997 in Athens and 1999 in Seville he left each in the quarterfinals. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Athens, he managed then to the finals and finished eighth. The following year he was. At the World Championships in Edmonton fifth, and he finished fifth at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna and seventh at the European Championships in Munich 2002

While he was in Birmingham and seventh in Budapest in 2004 was sixth at the World Indoor Championships in 2003, he failed in the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in the semifinals.

In 2005, he finally won his first medal at a major international event at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid with bronze. A semi-final at the World Championships in Helsinki was followed by a fifth place at the European Championships 2006 in Gothenburg. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, he managed to turn the semi-finals.

Robert Kronberg is 1,81 m tall and weighs 80 kg. In 2006, he took along with the power metal band Hammerfall on a version of her piece The Fire Burns Forever from the album Threshold, which was released on the single from the album Natural High.

Personal Best

  • 60 m (Hall ): 6.79 s, February 7, 2004, Gothenburg
  • 50 -meter hurdles (Hall ): 6.46 s, March 4, 2001 Sindelfingen
  • 60 -meter hurdles (Hall ): 7.54 s, March 9, 2003, Lisbon
  • 110 -meter hurdles: 13.35 s 4 July 2001, Lausanne (Swedish record ) Hall: 13,50 s, 13th February 2003, Tampere
687499
de