Athletics

- a way to spend 30 hours a week

Track is a large part of my life. I spend a lot of hours every week at the track or in the gym. I competed for Mölndals AIK Friidrott the first nine years of my career, but now I represent Ullevi Friidrott, running the 100m and 200m.

Ambitions

Written July 7th, 2006

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"Ambitions" was written in 2006 and is quite old by now, I'll try to get it updated before long...

It is the summer of 2006 and the European Championships is taking place in about one month. It's been quite some time since I updated this page on the web site. Sometimes it's due to lack of time and sometimes you just forget about it and only write on the home page and in the weblog. But this is what I wrote almost two years ago

The summer of 2006 is two years away. For the next two years my main focus will be the European Championships here in Göteborg 2006. My ambition is to be able to perform my best during those championships and that I will experience the event from the track with 50.000 persons in the seats on Ullevi Stadium...

... and that is still my goal for this summer.

Up until now I have managed to run a 10.49w in the 100m - that is below the qualifying standards but the little 'w' means it was run in a too strong tail wind. We ran a pretty good 4x100m relay in the European Cup, and I think that it's looking really good for a relay team in the Europeans but my main ambition is to qualify in the 200m - to do that I have to run 21.10 which is 1/10 second better that I did last year.

 

Personal bests and other merits

Swedish senior national team

Swedish junior national team

Swedish Championships

Swedish Junior Championships

Best results, year by year

Below is a table with the best results every year since I started running, that was in 1997 and the results from that summer is what I did without any track training what so ever...

I injured my back (got a slip disc) just before the 2002 season. I managed to compete some, dispite the injury, that summer but afterwards I had to spend and entire year doing rehab, that shows in the results from 2003.

Results year-by-year
Year Age 60m 100m 150m 200m
1997 18   11.45   23.50
1998 19 7.11i 11.05 / 10.85w   22.33
1999 20   10.57   21.68
2000 21 6.87i 10.69 16.00 21.66
2001 22 6.82i 10.51   21.22
2002 23   10.72   21.66
2003 24   10.92 / 10.89w   22.02
2004 25   10.62 / 10.48w?   21.59
2005 26 6.90i 10.61 15.85 21.22
2006 27 6.87i 10.65 / 10.49w 16.09 21.43 / 21.82i
2007 28 6.87i 10.79 / 10.71w 16.10 21.40 / 21.78i

 

Background

I've played football (soccer) all my life for the club Kållereds SK. But, when I was about to turn 18 I tried out track. 18 is usually seen as an old age to start doing something new but I guess it all turned out pretty good...