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Place of Birth: Västerås, Västmanland County, Sweden
About Susanne Lorentzon
- Barbro Marie Susanne Lorentzon-Borg (born 11 June 1961) is a Swedish former track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump.
- She held the Swedish record for the high jump from 22 June 1980 to 20 April 1997, when her lifetime best of 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1/4 in) was beaten by Kajsa Bergqvist. She was born in Västerås to Inga-Britt Lorentzon (a 1960 Olympian for Sweden in the high jump) and Inge Lorentzon, a national men's sprint champion.
- Susanne followed in her mother's footsteps while her sister, Annika, took up sprinting like her father.
- She made her international debut at the 1977 European Athletics Junior Championships, coming 13th overall.
- Still a teenager, she matched the achievements of her mother by winning the Swedish high jump title in 1979 and was then selected to compete for her country at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
- On her Olympic debut she cleared a height of 1.85 m (6 ft 3/4 in) in qualifying but did not progress to the final.Lorentzon was a finalist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 1982 and 1983 and placed twelfth at the 1982 European Athletics Championships.
- She was chosen as Sweden's representative at the inaugural 1983 World Championships in Athletics, but again failed to make a global final.
- She was dominant nationally, however, winning all indoor and outdoor titles between 1981 and 1986 (bar the 1982 indoor title).The peak of her career was the 1985 season.
- She cleared a Swedish record of 1.94 m (6 ft 4 1/4 in) to take the silver at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Games and matched that mark outdoors.
- She also placed fourth at the 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships – her highest finish at that competition.
- She jumped for Sweden at European level indoors and out in the 1986 season, but did not reach the same heights.
- Her last individual international medal came at the Nordic Indoor Athletics Championships that year, jumping 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1/2 in) for the gold ahead of Finland's Niina Vihanto.
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