Vanessa Kamga came to the Diamond League final with a severe ear infection and a ruptured eardrum. The European Championship bronze medallist in discus finished fifth with 62.53. “I am very proud of the performance,” she tells SVT.
SportsAnother withdrawal ahead of Finnkampen. Patricia Kamga misses the competition with back pain.
SportsSweden will have to do without Vanessa Kamga at Finnkampen. The discus star is ill and is forced to withdraw.
SportsThe European Championship form is holding up. Vanessa Kamga won the Gothenburg GP with three discus throws over 62 metres. “I’m super happy,” she tells SVT.
SportsThat Armand Duplantis would take home the season premiere of Diamond League in Chinese Xiamen was no giant shock. But that he would not take himself over six meters was all the more surprising. The Swede won the competition on a somewhat pale 5.92.
SportsLast year, Armand Duplantis launched his "world record year" in China. Now the world's best athlete is back in Xiamen and the pole vaulter is the brightest star at the Diamond League premiere.
SportsNew rules await in several events at the World Championship in athletics. Maja Åskag likes the change: It can benefit me, says the long jumper and triple jumper.
SportsArmand Duplantis was awarded twice at the Sports Gala. The pole vault star took home both the Male Athlete of the Year and the Performance of the Year, after having had a fantastic 2024 behind him.
SportsRoyal starlight, expected prize rain over Armand Duplantis and a new "Svennis" tribute. Here's everything you need to know ahead of the Sports Gala.
SportsNew rules await long jumpers and triple jumpers as well as throwers in the World Championship. "I am positive about the change", says Maja Åskag to friidrott.se. Discus thrower Vanessa Kamga is more doubtful about the new order.
SportsJudo athlete Tara Babulfath, Lucas Bergvall, football, discus thrower Vanessa Kamga and cyclist Jakob Söderqvist – it is the quartet that competes for the title as Rookie of the Year at the Sports Gala in January.
FootballThe hurdler Leo Magnusson did not get to go to the Olympic Games in Paris. But in Zagreb, he ran himself into third place all-time in Sweden – and second in Europe this year.
SportsVanessa Kamga continues to show top form. It was a victory and a Finnish Championship record for the Olympic Games five-woman in discus. The Swedish women have a two-point lead while the men are lagging behind by eleven.
SportsWith an extremely small margin, Sweden won the Finnkampen last year, both on the women's and men's sides. It can be just as even this year, as Olympic Games five Vanessa Kamga comes to Helsinki as one of the biggest Swedish names. It's going to be fun and I hope to be able to put on a little show, she says.
SportsIn the shadow of Armand Duplantis' pole vault show, Vanessa Kamga made a brilliant Olympic Games debut. The Swede finished fifth in the discus final in Paris. Nice to stir the pot a bit, says the 25-year-old.
SportsOlympic Games debutant Vanessa Kamga shone at Stade de France. She advanced to the final – and set a Swedish record. Good Lord, she says after 65.14 meters.
SportsAthletics faces prize money in this year's OS. Sweden's Olympic Committee (SOK) is skeptical. I think it's a trickiness that they introduce prize money in certain sports and not in others, says team manager Peter Reinebo.
SportsFor the first time, Kajsa Bergqvist will lead the Swedish athletics team in the OS. She will certainly tell them how it is to take a medal and how it is to live in the OS village. And maybe even the story about the auctioning off of the OS outfits. It became a really good little sum of money, she says.
SportsOn Wednesday, the Swedish Olympic team will be finalized. One of those who still hopes for a ticket is sprint star Julia Henriksson, who won the Swedish Championship gold on both 100 and 200 meters. I have shown everything I can now, she says.
SportsTen new names are clear for the Olympics in Paris. On Friday, among others, sprinter Henrik Larsson, who finished fourth in the 100 metres at the European Championship, received clearance from the Swedish Olympic Committee (SOK). It's a dream come true, he says.
SportsA fourth Swedish protest at the European Championship in athletics yielded a result. The 1,500-metre runner Samuel Pihlström, who was involved in a fall during the heats, gets to run in the final. However, the news now comes that the Swede will miss the final, after breaking his wrist in the fall.
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