Angelica Bengtsson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Angelica Bengtsson
Occupation	Pole Vaulter
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1993(1993-07-08)
Age	31
Birthplace	Väckelsång
Country	Sweden
Horoscope	Cancer

Angelica Bengtsson Biography

Angelica Bengtsson is one of the most popular and richest Pole Vaulter who was born on July 8, 1993 in Väckelsång, Sweden. Born on the 8th of July 1993, in Vackelsang, Sweden, Angelica Bengtsson initially began in gymnastics, and also wanted to follow in the footsteps of her father in javelin throwing. It soon became clear that she was gifted for pole vaulting, however she started her professional career at the club level with IFK Vaxjo, before going joining Hasselby SK. She was able to claim her first international win during the 2009 IAAF World Youth Championships, when at sixteen , she took home the gold medal in pole vaulting with an impressive clearance of 4.32 meters. It was an impressive winning margin of 22cm over the other competitors.

Bengtsson made that record with a first-time clearance during the Swedish Indoor Championships in February 2011 and securing both the junior world record as well as the Swedish record for senior simultaneously.

She has been a highly successful youth and junior athlete, winning gold medals at the 2009 World Youth Championships and the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She set a mark of 4.47 m for the youth world record for the event in 2010 and broke the world junior record with a vault of 4.63 m in

2011. Bengtsson placed tied 4th at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, China, having set a national record of 4.70 m in the final. She is also the current Swedish national record holder with 4.81 m, set indoor in Clermont- Ferrand, France, on February 24, 2019. She has won eleven national titles. Her father is Swedish and her mother is Afro-Brazilian.

Despite her young age she won the title of the nation’s senior champion during the Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships, overtaking her Swedish opponents by an impressive clearance of 4.30 meters. Bengtsson established herself as one of the best youth athletes during the 2010 European Youth Olympic Trials in Moscow in May. After winning the event her performance improved the world record for youth to 4.42 m , and then increased her performance to a 4.47-metre clearance of 4.47 meters. She tried to beat record for the Swedish records for seniors (raising the bars to 4.52 meters) but was unsuccessful in the three vaults. The score she achieved was sufficient to allow her to compete in the senior event of the 2010 European Athletics Championships, but she chose to concentrate in the lower age bracket competitions instead.

Angelica Bengtsson Net Worth

Angelica Bengtsson is one of the richest Pole Vaulter from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Angelica Bengtsson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Angelica Therese Bengtsson (born 8 July 1993) is a Swedish track and field athlete who is specialized in pole vaulting. She was the first winner of the pole vault at the first Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore in 2010.

Based on her youth gold from last one, this year she added a gold medal in the2010 Junior World Championship in Moncton. While the windy conditions slowed down the speed of her performance however, a first-time clearance of 4.15 m secured her victory over older girls. She also added ten centimeters between her with Holly Bleasdale for a winning score at 4.25 meters. Her feats led her to be one of the top athletes competing in the very first Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore. She deservedly earned her coveted status, winning the event with a record of 4.30 meters. Abandoning the Silke Spiegelburg the world record for juniors of 4.48 meters, Bengtsson went straight for the Swedish senior record. However, the record of 4.52 meters proved to be too high for the talented young athlete.

At the 2019 World Championships final, Bengtsson broke her pole in her third attempt on 4.80 m, thus having the right to re-take the attempt. She cleared that jump, which gave her 6th place in the competition, as well as a new Swedish outdoor record.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Facts & Trivia

Angelica Ranked on the list of most popular Pole Vaulter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Angelica Bengtsson celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.

How tall is Angelica Bengtsson?

5′ 4″

Who is the Swedish pole vaulter?

Personal information
Weight| 79 kg (174 lb)
Sport
Country| Sweden
Sport| Athletics

Who is the greatest pole vault athlete ever?

Who is the greatest pole vaulter of all time? The greatest pole vaulter of all time is Sergey Bubka. From 1983 to 1996, he won six consecutive IAAF World Championships. In 1988, at the Seoul Olympic Games, he won gold.

How much do professional pole vaulters make?

Annual SalaryWeekly Pay
Top Earners| $100,000| $1,923
75th Percentile| $74,000| $1,423
Average| $57,999| $1,115
25th Percentile| $32,500| $625

Who holds the world record in the pole vault?

EUGENE, Ore., July 24 (Reuters) – Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record with a jump of 6.21 metres on Sunday on the way to winning his first gold medal at the World Championships.