Emma Anna-Maria Green, also known as ''Emma Green Tregaro'' (born 8 December 1984) is a retired

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high jumper. She won a bronze medal in the event at the 2005 IAAF World Championships. She represented Sweden at the

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and 2012 Summer Olympics. She finished 2nd at the

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with a new personal best of 2.01 m.

Biography

Emma Green was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she lived with mother Maria, father Lennart, and younger brother Erik. She finished gymnasium in 2003, then with a goal to participate in the 2006 European Athletics Championships. She won the bronze medal in the

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, where she got the result 1.96 metres — a new personal best. On 1 July 2010 Emma Green improved her personal best to 1.98 m when she won at the Sollentuna GP, beating her previous best which had lasted almost five years. Only one month later, on 1 August 2010, at the 2010 European Championships in

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, she improved her personal best twice over within 5 minutes; first she jumped 1.99 and then just minutes later she jumped 2.01. This was her first time over the two-metre mark and was worth a European silver medal behind

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– her first continental medal. She won the

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in Gothenburg later that month, jumping 1.95 m. Apart from being a world class high-jumper she has been a Swedish champion at the 100 m, 200m and

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and is also a top national level

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er. She won a bronze medal in high jump at the

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on 28 June.

Personal life

In 2011 Green married her coach Yannick Tregaro, who was also the coach of high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist and

er Christian Olsson. The couple announced their divorce in early 2014.

LGBT rights

She is a supporter of

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and painted her nails in rainbow colors during the 2013 World Championships in Moscow as an act of defiance against Russia's recent ban on gay propaganda.

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condemned Green Tregaro's action at a press conference, but later clarified her views. The Swedish Olympic Committee subsequently cautioned their athletes against engaging in the same type of manifestation as Green Tregaro's at the upcoming

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Competition record

Personal bests

* High jump ** Indoor – 1.98 m ** Outdoor – 2.01 m (2010) *

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** Outdoor – 6.41 m *

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** Outdoor 13.16 m *

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** Outdoor 11.58 seconds * 200 meters ** Outdoor 23.02 seconds * 4 × 100 m ** Outdoor 44.53 seconds

References

External links

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www.friidrott.se Results DB

interview with 20 years old Emma Green at SVT's open archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Emma 1984 births Living people Swedish female high jumpers Swedish people of Estonian descent Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Swedish LGBT rights activists Örgryte IS Friidrott athletes Athletes from Gothenburg