Sofie Natalie Skoog (born June 7, 1990) is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

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 ...

er. She represented her nation Sweden at the

2015 IAAF World Championships The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

, and at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

, finishing seventh in the final round of the women's high jump. Skoog currently trains as a member of the track and field squad for IF Göta Karlstad, under the tutelage of her coach

Stefan Holm Stefan Christian Holm (born 25 May 1976) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He won an Olympic Games, Olympic gold medal, a silver medal, silver in the World Championships in Athletics, World Championships, and one silver and one bronze medal in ...

, a former high jumper and Athens 2004 champion. Skoog competed for Sweden, along with her fellow countrywoman

Erika Kinsey Erika Anna Kristina Kinsey (née Wiklund; born 10 March 1988) is a Swedish high jumper. She was European Junior Champion in 2007. Biography Wiklund was born in Nälden on 10 March 1988. She took up sports as a child, playing ice hockey and assoc ...

, in the women's high jump at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Six months before her maiden Games, she jumped a height of 1.94 m to attain the IAAF Olympic entry standard by just a single centimetre at the Nordic Championships in Växjö. Having entered the final round with a personal best of 1.94 m set at the qualifying phase, Skoog managed to jump easily into the competition at 1.88, and then spent two attempts to get over 1.93 m. Unable to trump the 1.97-metre mark after three attempts, Skoog ended her Olympic campaign in a two-way tie with Germany's

Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch (born 7 October 1990 in Paris, France) is a German athlete specialising in the high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured height ...

for seventh place.

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* * Swedish female high jumpers Living people People from Hagfors Municipality 1993 births World Athletics Championships athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Sweden Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Värmland County {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub