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Carolina Klüft after winning the heptathlon at the World Athletics 2003 in Paris.
Carolina Evelyn Klüft (born February 2, 1983 in Borċs) is a Swedish athlete competing in heptathlon.
She won the heptathlon at the World Athletics 2003 in Paris with a score of 7,001, ahead of France's Eunice Barber, who had 6,755 points. She also won the heptathlon in the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens at 6,952 points with a margin of 517 points. Klüft is the third woman to score 7,000 or more points at the heptathlon.
Klüft has also competed successfully in Long Jump; at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships she won bronze medal.
Biggest Victories
- Gold Medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens
- Gold Medal at the 2005 IAAF European Indoor Championships, Madrid
- Gold Medal at the 2002 European Championships, Munich
External links
- BBC Sports Article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/world_athletics_2003/3178161.stm)
- Carolina Klüft (http://carolina-kluft.chez.tiscali.fr/)
| Olympic medalists in athletics (women) | Olympic Champions in Women's Pentathlon and Heptathlon |
| As Pentathlon: Irina Press | Ingrid Becker | Mary Peters | Siegrun Siegl | Nadezhda Tkachenko |
| As Heptathlon: Glynis Nunn | Jackie Joyner-Kersee (twice) | Ghada Shouaa | Denise Lewis | Carolina Klüft |