Carolina Kluft | Olympics
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Athlete Name: Carolina Kluft
Olympic Event: Women’s Long Jump (World Record: 7.52m Galina Chistyakova, URS)
Olympic team: Sweden
Height/Weight: 5'10" / 141 lbs
Personal Best: 6.97m (Tallinn)
2008 Beijing Olympics Expectation: Podium Finish
About Carolina Kluft: Kluft is renowned for her success in the Heptathlon for which she won gold in the 2004 Athens Olympics and was unbeaten between 2002 and 2007. However in March 2008, Kluft announced that she would not be defending her Heptathlon title at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and would instead focus on the women’s long jump. In 2004 Kluft won a bronze medal in the long jump at the World Indoor Championships but has little other experience competing outside the heptathlon. She has amassed an impressive five gold medals outside of the Olympics and is second on the all-time heptathlon points score list with 7,032.
(picture by Björn Bergman on commons.wikimedia.org)
Kluft Switches To Fast Twitch
Written by matt.renton on Fri, 2008-08-08 10:08 in Carolina Kluft Field Events Training
Heptathlon legend Carolina Kluft will enter the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a much less chaotic schedule than she is used to.
Carolina Kluft - Long Jump
Written by matt.renton on Thu, 2008-07-31 15:50 in Carolina Kluft Field Events
Olympic Chances: Despite her dominance in the Heptathlon, Carolina Kluft will not go into the Olympics as favourite to win the women’s long jump.
Carolina Kluft Olympic News
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