14 Facts About Kajsa Bergqvist

Kajsa Bergqvist won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships.

Kajsa Bergqvist's personal outdoor record of 2.06 m, set in Germany in 2003, is a Swedish record.

Kajsa Bergqvist continued to train in several athletic events until she was 15 years old, when a new coach, Bengt Jonsson, came to her club, Turebergs FK.

Kajsa Bergqvist was the NCAA champion in 1997 with a clearance of 1.93 in the rain at the Indiana University over Amy Acuff of UCLA ending her streak at two.

Kajsa Bergqvist won the NCAA meet again in 1999 with a height of 1.90 in Boise.

Kajsa Bergqvist joined a group of athletes under Yannick Tregaro.

At a competition in Bastad, on 18 July 2004, Kajsa Bergqvist tore her Achilles tendon.

At the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting in Arnstadt, Germany, on 4 February 2006, Kajsa Bergqvist set her first world record: she made an indoor leap of 2.08 on her first attempt, surpassing Heike Henkel's 2.07 m leap on 8 February 1992.

Kajsa Bergqvist chose not to compete in the 2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships, opting, instead, to concentrate on defending her world outdoor crown.

Kajsa Bergqvist had not started the indoor season well and was nowhere near the form which had seen her set the world record the year before.

Kajsa Bergqvist married director Mans Herngren on New Year's Eve in 2007 and shortly afterwards, on 7 January 2008, announced that she would retire from high jumping.

Kajsa Bergqvist had found her life entering "a new phase" and that she no longer felt as motivated to keep competing, even after her break in 2007.

In 2021 Kajsa Bergqvist became head coach of the Swedish national athletics team.

Kajsa Bergqvist married director Mans Herngren on New Year's Eve in 2007.