{"id":176263,"date":"2026-08-17T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=176263"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:18:08","slug":"blagult-medaljregn-i-birmingham-duplantis-skrev-historia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/a-shower-of-gold-and-silver-medals-in-birmingham-duplantis-made-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A Flurry of Medals for Sweden in Birmingham \u2013 Duplantis Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sweden leaves the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham with five medals\u2014two gold, one silver, and two bronze. Armand Duplantis made history with his fourth consecutive European Championship gold, while Andreas Almgren and Samuel Pihlstr\u00f6m made it a dream night for Sweden.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweden did not match its record of six medals from the 2006 European Championships. But it still ended up with five medals: gold to <strong>Armand Duplantis<\/strong> and <strong>Andreas Almgren<\/strong>, silver to <strong>Samuel Pihlstr\u00f6m<\/strong> and a bronze medal for <strong>Wictor Petersson<\/strong> and <strong>Vanessa Kamga<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mondo makes history \u2013 dedicates the gold medal to his grandmother<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, Duplantis became the first pole vaulter ever to win four European Championship titles\u2014and four in a row, at that. After a fierce battle with Greece\u2019s Emmanouil Karalis, the Swede secured the gold medal and then set a new championship record of 6.15 meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2013 The gold is for Grandma<\/em>, he said afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duplantis's grandmother <strong>Ingrid Hedlund<\/strong>, who has been described as one of his biggest fans, passed away at the age of 92, one month before the championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Almgren crushed the opposition<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As early as Saturday, Andreas Almgren had secured the European Championship gold medal in the 10,000 meters. The Swede led from the front and defeated his competitors in commanding fashion before stepping onto the top step of the podium on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\"I've been dreaming about this for a long time.\".<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just minutes after Almgren\u2019s gold-medal race, the next Swedish success came. Samuel Pihlstr\u00f6m was in last place on the final lap of the 1,500-meter final but pulled off a tremendous sprint to take silver with a time of 3:36.16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Five medals\u2014and five fourth-place finishes<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pihlstr\u00f6m was just eight hundredths of a second ahead of bronze medalist Andrew Coscoran. Sweden also had five fourth-place finishes during the championship\u2014and thus came close to a much larger haul of medals.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shower of medals for Sweden in Birmingham! Duplantis made history, Almgren crushed the competition, and Pihlstr\u00f6m delivered an incredible final sprint<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,1522,205],"tags":[703,838,2441],"class_list":["post-176263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kultur","category-mellan","category-nyheter","tag-armand-duplantis","tag-friidrott","tag-medalj"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}