SWEDISH TEAM

SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. European Championships in Athletics – Barcelona 2010.
PB other events 1500m 4:32.24 Borås 27.6.1998
3000mSt 11:12.75 Tranås 24.5.1998
300mH 38.85 Karlskrona 4.8.2000
LJ 6.81 Stockholm 16.9.2000
SP 9.48 Helsingborg 29.9.2007
DT 26.28 Helsingborg 29.9.2007
HT 23.68 Helsingborg 29.9.2007
JT 38.05 Helsingborg 29.9.2007
Athletics in family Father Mats (Persson, b '49): 800m: 1:59.4m '66.
Note: Winter of '04 ran the 200m in six meets, improved the NIR on four occasions and won all races but the last, the
WICh final which he lost by 0.06.
In March '06 ran an unofficial European Indoor record for 300m in Liévin lowering Erwin Skamrahl's 20 years old mark of
32.72 by 0.11.
First international success as a 400m-runner (silver at '01 European Juniors) but then chose 200m as main event to improve
his speed. However, long term focus remained at 400m and after '06 ECh 200m silver switched priorities and re-focused on
the 1-lap event.
In summer of '07 lowered PB by over one second and in Osaka WCh ran sub-45 in all three rounds.
Had four individual silvers, one bronze and two 4th places from international championships before striking gold at '09
European Indoors.
From '01 WCh to '09 WCh competed in every championship (Olympic, World and European) outdoors and indoors, i.e. did
17 straight championship starts before passing the '10 indoor season.
Website: http://www.johanwissman.com