Michaela Meijer
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Michaela Meijer (born 30 July 1993) is a Swedish
athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...
who specialises in the
pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...
. She competed at the 2015 World Championships in
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, reaching the final. In 2016, Meijer competed at the
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in
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, but was eliminated in the qualification round, finishing 17th with 4.45 meters. In addition she won silver medals at the 2009 World Youth Championships and the 2015 European U23 Championships, both times finishing behind her compatriot,
Angelica Bengtsson Angelica Therese Bengtsson (born 8 July 1993) is a Swedish track and field athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She became the first pole vault winner at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, 2010. Bengtsson has won gold medals ...
. Her personal bests in the event are 4.83 metres outdoors (
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, 2020), which is also the Swedish record and 4.75 metres indoors (
Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...
2019).


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(q = qualification round)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meijer, Michaela 1993 births Living people Swedish female pole vaulters World Athletics Championships athletes for Sweden Athletes from Gothenburg Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Swedish women European Games competitors for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games