Barbro Marie Susanne Lorentzon-Borg (born 11 June 1961) 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 ...

former

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who specialised 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 heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

. She held the Swedish record for the high jump from 22 June 1980 to 20 April 1997, when her lifetime best of was beaten by

Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist (; born 12 October 1976 in Sollentuna, Stockholm) is a Swedish former high jumper. She won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and ...

. She was born in

Västerås Västerås ( , , ) is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Mälaren, Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 154,049. Västerås ...

to Inga-Britt Lorentzon (a 1960 Olympian for Sweden in the high jump) and Inge Lorentzon, a national men's sprint champion. Susanne followed in her mother's footsteps while her sister, Annika, took up sprinting like her father.Susanne Lorentzon
Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2016-02-20. She made her international debut at the

1977 European Athletics Junior Championships The 1977 European Athletics Junior Championships was the fourth edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Ук ...

, coming 13th overall. Still a teenager, she matched the achievements of her mother by winning the Swedish high jump title in 1979 and was then selected to compete for her country at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

. On her Olympic debut she cleared a height of in qualifying but did not progress to the final. Lorentzon was a finalist at the

European Athletics Indoor Championships The European Athletics Indoor Championships is a biennial indoor track and field competition for European athletes that is organised by the European Athletic Association. It was held for the first time in 1970, replacing the European Indoor Games, ...

in 1982 and 1983 and placed twelfth at the

1982 European Athletics Championships The 13th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 September to 12 September 1982 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Men's results Compl ...

.Susanne Lorentzon
Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2016-02-20. She was chosen as Sweden's representative at the inaugural

1983 World Championships in Athletics The 1st 1983 World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983. Summary The overall med ...

, but again failed to make a global final. She was dominant nationally, however, winning all indoor and outdoor titles between 1981 and 1986 (bar the 1982 indoor title). The peak of her career was the 1985 season. She cleared a Swedish record of to take the silver at the

1985 IAAF World Indoor Games The World Indoor Games were arranged by the IAAF and held at the Palais Omnisports Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from January 18 to January 19, 1985. In 1987 the championship was renamed to the IAAF World Indoor Championships The World Athlet ...

and matched that mark outdoors. She also placed fourth at the

1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium, Piraeus, Attica, Greece, on 2 and 3 March 1985. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Participating nations * (10) * (5) * (13) * (4) * (21) ...

– her highest finish at that competition. She jumped for Sweden at European level indoors and out in the 1986 season, but did not reach the same heights. Her last individual international medal came at the Nordic Indoor Athletics Championships that year, jumping for the gold ahead of Finland's

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International competitions

National titles

Swedish Athletics Championships The Swedish Athletics Championships ( sv, Svenska mästerskapen i friidrott) is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Swedish Athletics Association, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Sweden.

**High jump: 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986Swedish Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-02-20. *Swedish Indoor Championships **High jump: 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-02-20. Competing as a guest, she was also the 1980 and 1984 winner at the Finnish Indoor Championships, and the 1981 winner at the Norwegian Indoor Championships.
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-02-20.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorentzon, Susanne Living people 1961 births Sportspeople from Västerås Swedish female high jumpers Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Sweden World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists

International competitions

National titles

See also

References

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