Erica Johansson (born February 5, 1974) is a

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former

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who specialized in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. She is the 1992 World Junior Champion, the 1993 European Junior Champion, and the 2000 European Indoor Champion. She also competed at the

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Career

Born in

Landvetter Landvetter is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality situated in Härryda Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 7,152 inhabitants in 2010. It is the second largest town in the municipality and has given its name to the international a ...

Härryda Municipality Härryda Municipality (''Härryda kommun'') is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Mölnlycke, with about 19,000 inhabitants. Göteborg Landvetter Airport, Sweden's second-largest airpo ...

, Johansson was a promising junior who equalled the Swedish record as a 15-year-old with 6.50 meters, to win European Junior silver in 1989. A year later, she won the silver medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships, jumping 6.50 again. She yet again jumped 6.50 when finishing fourth at the 1991 European Junior Championships, missing out on the bronze medal to

Iva Prandzheva Iva Prandzheva ( bg, Ива Пранджева, born 15 February 1972 in Plovdiv) is a former Bulgarian Athletics (sport), athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump. She had to retire from athletics in 2000 after she was caught ...

on countback. The highlights of her successful junior career was winning gold medals at the 1992 World Junior Championships with 6.65 metres, and at the 1993 European Junior Championships with 6.56. Her greatest achievement at senior level came at the 2000 European Indoor Championships, where she won the gold medal with a jump of 6.89 metres. She retired after the 2001 season.

International competitions

Personal bests

Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

- 6.99 (2000), ''National record'' *

High jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

- 1.78 (1989) *

Triple Jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

- 13.95 (1999) *100 meters - 11.88 (1997) *200 m - 23.75 (1997) *800 m - 2:21.95 (1989) *100 m hurdles - 13.63 (1998) *400 m hurdles - 58.86 (1994)

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* 1974 births Living people Swedish female long jumpers Olympic athletes of Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics People from Härryda Municipality Sportspeople from Västra Götaland County 20th-century Swedish women {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub