Karoline Nemetz (married name: Ettemark; born 28 June 1958) is a
Swedish
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former
middle- and
long-distance runner
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Within e ...
.
Nemetz grew up in
Eskilstuna
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and began competing in
athletics
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and
skiing
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. She eventually settled on running as her focus and made her breakthrough at national level in 1978 by winning the
1500 metres
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and
3000 metres
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titles at the
Swedish Athletics Championships
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cross country running
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short race title.
[Swedish Championships]
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
Nemetz won her first major medal at the
1980 World Championships in Athletics
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. This was a two-event competition created by the
International Amateur Athletics Federation
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in response to the lack of the women's
400 metres hurdles
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and 3000 m run at the
1980 Summer Olympics
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. Nemetz took the 3000 m silver medal behind
Birgit Friedmann. Her runner-up time of 8:50.22 minutes was a new
Swedish record and she was the first to beat
Inger Knutsson's Swedish time for that distance. Nemetz's time stood for almost sixteen years, at which point
Sara Wedlund
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improved the mark by a second and a half.
[SWE Record Progressions- Track]
Association of Road Racing Statisticians
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. Retrieved on 2014-02-22. Nemetz also retained her Swedish short cross country title, but
Katharina Jönnå and
Birgit Bringslid took that year's Swedish track titles.
[ She won the 3000 m at the 1980 ]DN Galan
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in Stockholm
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.
In 1981 Nemetz won her third 3000 m national title. She also set two further Swedish records: running 15:59.84 for the 5000 metres
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at the Bislett Games
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History
The first international athletics meeting at Bislet ...
,[ and 2:37:06 hours for the ]marathon
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when placing sixth at the 1981 New York City Marathon
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. Nemetz was awarded the Stora grabbars märke
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award at the end of the season.Stora Grabbar
Friidrott. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
Her career abruptly came to a halt in 1982 as she suffered an Achilles tendon
The Achilles tendon or heel cord, also known as the calcaneal tendon, is a tendon at the back of the lower leg, and is the thickest in the human body. It serves to attach the plantaris, gastrocnemius (calf) and soleus muscles to the calcaneus (h ...
injury. The subsequent operation affected her ability to train and she retired from the sport.
References
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Living people
1958 births
Swedish female middle-distance runners
Swedish female long-distance runners
World Athletics Championships medalists
People from Eskilstuna
Sportspeople from Södermanland County