Emma Green (athlete)
{{short description|Swedish high jumper}}
{{about|the athlete|the 19th century historic figure|Emma Green (nurse)|other uses|Emma Green (disambiguation){{!}}Emma Green}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Emma Green
| image = Emma Green-Tregaro by Augustas Didzgalvis.jpg
| image_size = 240px
| caption = Green Tregaro on World Championships in Moscow, Russia in August 2013
| nationality = {{flag|SWE|name=Swedish}}
| residence =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|12|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Gothenburg, Sweden
| death_date =
| death_place =
| height = {{convert|1.80|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|62|kg|lb stlb|abbr=on}}
| sport = Track and field
| event = High jump
| club =
| coach = Yannick Tregaro
| retired = 2017
| pb = 2.01 m (2010)
| medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's athletics}}
{{MedalCountry|{{SWE}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2005 Helsinki|High jump}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|2010 Barcelona|High jump}}
{{MedalBronze|2012 Helsinki|High jump}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Indoor Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|2013 Gothenburg|High jump}}
{{MedalCompetition|Continental Cup}}
{{MedalSilver|2010 Split|High jump}}
| show-medals =
| updated = 22 April 2012
}}
Emma Anna-Maria Green, also known as Emma Green Tregaro (born 8 December 1984) is a retired Swedish high jumper. She won a bronze medal in the event at the 2005 IAAF World Championships. She represented Sweden at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She finished 2nd at the 2010 European Athletics Championships 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 2005 World Championships in Athletics, 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.{{cite web |last=Lennart |first=Julin A. |title=Green defeats Lowe in Sollentuna |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=57246.html |publisher=IAAF |access-date=2 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705103656/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind%3D100/newsid%3D57246.html |archive-date=July 5, 2010 }} Only one month later, on 1 August 2010, at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, 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 Blanka Vlašić – her first continental medal. She won the Folksam Grand Prix in Gothenburg later that month, jumping 1.95 m.{{cite web |last=Lennart |first=Julin A. |title=Green pleases home crowd in Gothenburg |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=57959.html |publisher=IAAF |access-date=13 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100814132750/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind%3D100/newsid%3D57959.html |archive-date=August 14, 2010 }}
Apart from being a world class high-jumper she has been a Swedish champion at the 100 m, 200m and long jump and is also a top national level triple jumper.
She won a bronze medal in high jump at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki on 28 June.
Personal life
In 2011 Green married her coach Yannick Tregaro, who was also the coach of high jumper Kajsa Bergqvist and triple jumper Christian Olsson. The couple announced their divorce in early 2014.{{cite news|title=Emma Green Tregaro och Yannick Tregaro skiljer sig|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/friidrott/article18429298.ab|access-date=27 March 2015|newspaper=Aftonbladet|date=24 February 2014}}
=LGBT rights=
She is a supporter of LGBT rights 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.{{cite news |last=Шкель |first=Тамара |script-title=ru:Закон под "браво! |url=http://www.rg.ru/2013/06/13/chuvstva.html |access-date=20 August 2013 |newspaper=Rossiyskaya Gazeta |date=13 June 2013 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813033229/http://www.rg.ru/2013/06/13/chuvstva.html |archive-date=13 August 2013 |url-status=live |quote=(translation) .. It is now possible to impose a fine of 50 to 100 thousand rubles for gay propaganda on the Internet. }}{{cite news |title=Rainbow nail varnish could get Swedish athlete imprisoned |url=http://www.channel4.com/news/swedish-athlete-russia-gay-propaganda-emma-green-tregaro |access-date=20 August 2013 |newspaper=Channel 4 News |date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818121327/http://www.channel4.com/news/swedish-athlete-russia-gay-propaganda-emma-green-tregaro |archive-date=18 August 2013 |url-status=live |quote=Self-expression or gay propaganda? How a Swedish athlete at the Moscow World Championships could be imprisoned for her nail varnish. }} Yelena Isinbayeva condemned Green Tregaro's action at a press conference, but later clarified her views.{{cite news |last=Luhn |first=Alec |title=Isinbayeva says Green Tregaro's gesture was disrespectful to Russia |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/15/yelena-isinbayeva-green-tregaro-rainbow-gesture |access-date=21 August 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816211907/http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/15/yelena-isinbayeva-green-tregaro-rainbow-gesture |archive-date=16 August 2013 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title=Olympics: Isinbayeva says 'misunderstood' over anti-gay remarks |url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130816/olympics-isinbayeva-says-misunderstood-over-anti-gay-remarks |access-date=20 August 2013 |newspaper=GlobalPost |date=16 August 2013 |agency=Agence France-Presse |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822053908/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130816/olympics-isinbayeva-says-misunderstood-over-anti-gay-remarks |archive-date=22 August 2013 |url-status=dead |quote=Russian pole vault legend Yelena Isinbayeva attempted Friday to play down the furore provoked by her anti-gay remarks, saying she was "misunderstood" and opposed to discrimination against homosexuals. }} The Swedish Olympic Committee subsequently cautioned their athletes against engaging in the same type of manifestation as Green Tregaro's at the upcoming Winter Olympics 2014.{{cite news |title=Swedish Athletes Warned Ahead of Sochi Games |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323980604579026644268541568 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |agency=WSJ Wire Services |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822010555/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323980604579026644268541568.html |archive-date=22 August 2013 |url-status=live |quote=The Swedish Olympic committee has cautioned Swedish athletes not to engage in the type of political manifestations carried out by Swedish high jumper Emma Green Tregaro at the track and field world championships in Moscow this month. }}
Competition record
| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |
| colspan="6"|Representing {{SWE}} |
|---|
| 2002
|9th |High jump |
| 2003
|European Junior Championships |Tampere, Finland |bgcolor=cc996|3rd |High jump |1.86 m |
| rowspan=3|2005
|European Indoor Championships |Madrid, Spain |8th |High jump |
| European U23 Championships
|Erfurt, Germany |bgcolor=silver|2nd |High jump |
| World Championships
|Helsinki, Finland |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |High jump |
| rowspan=5|2006
|Moscow, Russia |14th (q) |High jump |
| rowspan=2|European Cup
|rowspan=2|Málaga, Spain |5th |200 metres |23.02 (wind: +0.6 m/s) |
| 4th
|4 × 100 m relay |44.53 |
| rowspan=2|European Championships
|rowspan=2|Gothenburg, Sweden |11th |High jump |
| 5th
|4 × 100 m relay |
| rowspan=3|2007
|European Indoor Championships |Birmingham, United Kingdom |9th (q) |High jump |
| World Championships
|Osaka, Japan |7th |High jump |
| World Athletics Final
|Stuttgart, Germany |8th |High jump |1.85 m |
| rowspan=2|2008
|Valencia, Spain |13th (q) |High jump |
| Olympic Games
|Beijing, China |6th |High jump |
| rowspan=2|2009
|Leiria, Portugal |5th |High jump |1.95 m |
| World Championships
|Berlin, Germany |6th |High jump |
| rowspan=3|2010
|Doha, Qatar |5th |High jump |
| European Championships
|Barcelona, Spain |bgcolor=silver|2nd |High jump |
| colspan=2 | Diamond League
| align="center" bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd |High jump | align="center" | details |
| 2011
|Daegu, South Korea |10th |High jump |
| rowspan=3|2012
|Istanbul, Turkey |9th (q) |High jump |
| European Championships
|Helsinki, Finland |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |High jump |
| Olympic Games
|London, United Kingdom |8th |High jump |
| rowspan=3|2013
|European Indoor Championships |Gothenburg, Sweden |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |High jump |
| World Championships
|Moscow, Russia |5th |High jump |
| colspan=2 | Diamond League
| align="center" bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | High jump | align="center" | details |
| rowspan=2|2014
|Sopot, Poland |5th |High jump |
| European Championships
|Zürich, Switzerland |9th |High jump |
| 2017
|European Indoor Championships |Belgrade, Serbia |19th (q) |High jump |
Personal bests
- High jump
- Indoor – 1.98 m
- Outdoor – 2.01 m (2010)
- Long jump
- Outdoor – 6.41 m
- Triple jump
- Outdoor 13.16 m
- 100 meters
- Outdoor 11.58 seconds
- 200 meters
- Outdoor 23.02 seconds
- 4 × 100 m
- Outdoor 44.53 seconds
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Emma Green Tregaro}}
- {{Official website|http://www.emma-green.se/}}
- {{World Athletics||name=Emma Green}}
- {{cite web|title=EAA – Emma Green's biography |url=http://www.tilastopaja.net/db/atweaa.php?ID=5477 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222070220/http://www.tilastopaja.net/db/atweaa.php?ID=5477 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 22, 2013 |access-date=August 11, 2005 }}
- [http://www.friidrott.se/rs/arsbasta/12/arsbasta_k.html www.friidrott.se Results DB] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329182233/http://www.friidrott.se/rs/arsbasta/12/arsbasta_k.html |date=2016-03-29 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151002000717/http://www.oppetarkiv.se/video/2367644/sportnytt interview with 20 years old Emma Green at SVT's open archive] {{in lang|sv}}
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