Stefan Holm

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Stefan Christian Holm (born 25 May 1976) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He won an Olympic gold medal, a silver in the World Championships, and one silver and one bronze medal in the European Championships. His personal records are Template:T&Fcalc (outdoors, set 2008) and Template:T&Fcalc (indoors, set 2005). Clearing the bar 59 centimeters (23 in) over his own height, he currently holds, jointly with American Franklin Jacobs, the world record for height differential.

Holm is currently coach of his son Melwin Lycke Holm.

Biography

His inspiration for high-jumping began when he was 8 years old. He saw a Swedish high-jumping legend, and former world-record holder, Patrik Sjöberg, compete on television.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He set an indoor personal best of Template:T&Fcalc in 2003 to win the Hochsprung mit Musik meeting, and managed to reach the same height outdoors the following year while winning the Internationales Hochsprung-Meeting Eberstadt. In 2004, Holm won the 2004 Summer Olympics high jump gold in Athens with a jump of 2.36 and was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> This year Holm also won the Jerring Award.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Holm finished 4th at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a leap of 2.32 m. On 13 September 2008 he announced his retirement from the sport. Holm ended his 20-year career with a second place at the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He briefly returned to high jump competition in 2010 for a charity event: the Auto Lounge Comeback competition in Sweden. As his main rival Patrik Sjöberg had a knee injury, Holm agreed to jump off his wrong foot to even the score. He beat Sjöberg in the wrong-footed faceoff and went back to his normal takeoff to jump 2.15 m for third behind Ukhov and Donald Thomas.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He became an IOC member at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires in September 2013.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In October 2019, he announced he would leave his seat following the 2020 Summer Olympics.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On his 40th birthday in May 2016, Holm set a new Swedish veteran record for 40-year-olds (M40). With 2.06 m he broke the previous record of 2.05 m, which had been held by Egon Nilsson for almost 50 years.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Holm participated in the Swedish version of Who Do You Think You Are? in 2016. The longest ancestry tracing in the series' history was successfully made, covering 29 generations and 1,000 years back to the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung. This lineage is on Holm's maternal great-great-great-grandfather's side.<ref>Template:Cite web Se 41:51–43:30 och 52:58–55:00 in i programmet.</ref>

Holm's son is Melwin Lycke Holm, winner of the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in the high jump, whom he coaches.<ref name=ea>Template:Cite web</ref> He has previously coached Swedish Olympic high jumper Sofie Skoog.

Competition record

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1993 European Junior Championships San Sebastián, Spain 11th 2.06 m
1994 World Junior Championships Lisbon, Portugal 7th 2.10 m
1995 European Junior Championships Nyíregyháza, Hungary 6th 2.17 m
1997 World Indoor Championships Paris, France 8th 2.25 m
1998 European Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 19th (q) 2.20 m
European Championships Budapest, Hungary 7th 2.27 m
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 6th 2.25 m
Universiade Palma de Mallorca, Spain 4th 2.25 m
World Championships Seville, Spain 10th 2.25 m
2000 European Indoor Championships Ghent, Belgium 4th 2.32 m
Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 4th<ref name="jump5">Template:Cite web</ref> 2.32 m
2001 World Indoor Championships Lisbon, Portugal 1st 2.32 m
World Championships Edmonton, Canada 4th 2.30 m
Goodwill Games Brisbane, Australia 1st 2.33 m
2002 European Indoor Championships Vienna, Austria 2nd 2.30 m
European Championships Munich, Germany 2nd 2.29 m
2003 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 1st 2.35 m
World Championships Paris, France 2nd 2.32 m
2004 World Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 1st 2.35 m
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 1st<ref name="jump5" /> 2.36 m
2005 European Indoor Championships Madrid, Spain 1st 2.40 m
World Championships Helsinki, Finland 7th 2.29 m
2006 World Indoor Championships Moscow, Russia 5th 2.30 m
European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 3rd 2.34 m
2007 European Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 1st 2.34 m
World Championships Osaka, Japan 4th 2.33 m
2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia, Spain 1st 2.36 m
Olympic Games Beijing, China 4th<ref name="jump5" /> 2.32 m

Other victories

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