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Top 10 Most Stunning Women Athletic Runners
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Susanna
Kallur- (Sweden) 60 m & 100m hurdles: Susanna
Elisabeth Kallur was born on February 16, 1981.She is a Swedish athlete
competing mainly in sprint hurdles. She has won several international medals,
including the gold
medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships. Kallur
holds the world indoor record for 60 m hurdles.
Kallur made a breakthrough by winning the 100 m hurdles at the 2000 World Junior
Championship. She then initially failed to make an impact on senior competition,
failing to make
the final of two World Championships and then the 2004 Olympic Games. She
improved her personal best to 12.67 seconds.
In 2005 she won her first senior gold medal at the 2005 European Indoor
Championships in Madrid. But once again she failed to reach the final of the
2005 World Championships
in Helsinki. She came third in the 2006 World Indoor Championships. Kallur, in
her biggest achievement to date, won the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European
Championships in
front of her home crowd in Gothenburg. She won in a time of 12.59 sec ahead of
Kirsten Bolm and Derval O'Rourke.
Kallur retained her title at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. She
finished only fourth in the 100 m hurdles at the 2007 World Championships in
Osaka, despite running a
personal best of 12.51s. However, the Swedish team had grounds for appeal, as
eventual winner Michelle Perry had crossed over into Kallur's lane. Indeed they
did register an
appeal, but after the time limit had elapsed. After the World Championships,
Kallur won the three remaining Golden League events in Berlin, Z�rich and
Brussels, posting a personal
best in the German capital and beating Perry in all three races.
After posting several fast times throughout the beginning of the 2008 indoor
season, Kallur broke the 60 m hurdles indoor world record, posting a time of
7.68 at a meeting in
Karlsruhe, Germany on February 10, 2008. Kallur was then the clear favourite for
the World Indoor title in Valencia and won her heat in 7.87 seconds, but did not
start the semi-finals, pulling out injured.
She fell at the first hurdle of her semi-final of the 100 m women's hurdles
event at the 2008 Olympic Games. She missed the entirety of the 2009 season
through a stress
fracture injury. She had surgery on her shin in late 2008 and, although she had
a metal plate removed in June 2009, she declared herself unfit for the 2009
World Championships.
She briefly returned to competition in 2010 running a time of 12.78 in New York
City to finish seventh and coming fourth over 100 m hurdles in the European Cup
in the 1st
Division. However, she was again sidelined from athletics in 2011. She had hoped
to compete at the World Championships but did not recover from injury in time.
She resumed
training in August at a low-intensity, saying that she wants to run in the
Olympics in 2012.
Born February 16, 1981 in Huntington, New York, U.S., Kallur is now a resident
of Falun, Dalarnas l�n, and trains with Falu IK. Her twin sister Jenny, who is 4
minutes older, is also
a 100 m hurdler. They are daughters of the ice hockey player Anders Kallur, who
won four Stanley Cup championships with the New York Islanders, and his wife
Lisa.
She is 1.69 m (5 ft 6 in) and weighs 61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb). She is coached
by Torbj�rn Eriksson and also by Karin Torneklint. Often called 'Sanna' in
Sweden.
As she was born in the USA, she has dual-citizenship. She studied at and
competed for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In January 2007 she won the Jerring Award, voted by the people of Sweden to be
the best sports person or team in Sweden at the time.
Number two in the vote was
the
Swedish national men's ice hockey team, which won Olympic gold and World
Championships in 2006.
Susanna and her twin sister Jenny have also done gymnastics and used to be
members of the Swedish Junior National Team.
Achievements
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2005 European Indoor Championships (Madrid)
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(60m Hurdles) Gold medal (7.80).
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2006 World Indoor Championships (Moscow)
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(60m Hurdles) Bronze medal
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2006 European Championships (G�teborg)
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(100m Hurdles) Gold medal
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2007 European Indoor Championships (Birmingham)
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(60m Hurdles) Gold medal
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Dated 07 December 2012
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