Sweden have announced the first 33 athletes that will be travelling to Birmingham this summer for the European Athletics Championships, as they look to climb the medal table.
Mondo Duplantis headlines the stacked team that also features former Olympic and two-time world champion Daniel Stahl and defending European champion over 20km race walk Perseus Karlstrom who will contest the newly introduced half marathon race walk.
The women’s team includes Vanessa Kamga, who just missed the discus podium in Tokyo last year, the former two-time world U20 champion Maja Aska in triple jump, and Fanny Roos who has made multiple world, Olympic and European finals.
Gabriel Wallmark, who took the men’s world U20 title in triple jump in 2021, has also been confirmed as part of the team after jumping 16.34m in March this year.
Thobias Montler will also return to the championships as he hopes to make it back on the long jump podium after taking silver in 2022.
On the track, world 10,000m bronze medallist and European half marathon record-holder Andreas Almgren will be looking to avenge his fourth place finish in the 5000m in 2022 and 10,000m in 2024 as he contests the longer distance again this year.
Samuel Philstrom will be looking to make his first senior podium having taken bronze at the Espo 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships and placing fourth at the world indoors earlier this year.
Suldan Hassan, Archibald Casteel and Ebba Tulu Chala will compete in the men’s marathon while Samrawit Mengsteab, Carolina Johnson, and Hanna Lindholm will race in the women’s marathon.
Oskar Edlund, a European U20 silver medallist and U23 bronze medallist, will contest the 400m hurdles.
Joining Roos in the women’s shot is Axelina Johansson, who took bronze at world indoors this year, as Wictor Petersson will take to the circle for the men’s shot.
Full squad selection so far (final selections still to be made)
Women:
Axelina Johansson, shot put
Carolina Johnson, marathon
Erika Warff, heptathlon
Fanny Roos, shot put
Hanna Lindholm, marathon
Julia Henriksson, 200 meters
Katharina Graman, triple jump
Louise Ekman, high jump
Lovisa Karlsson, heptathlon
Maja Askag, triple jump
Samrawit Mengsteab, marathon
Sarah Lahti, 5,000 meters
Tilde Bjerager, 400 meter hurdles
Vanessa Kamga, discus
Men:
Andreas Almgren, 10,000 meters
Andreas Kramer, 800 meters
Archibald Casteel, marathon
Armand Duplantis, pole vault
Daniel Stahl, discus
Ebba Tulu Chala, marathon
Emil Uhlin, decathlon
Gabriel Wallmark, triple jump
Leo Magnusson, 3,000 m hurdles
Oliver Sandberg, pole vault
Oskar Edlund, 400 meter hurdles
Perseus Karlstrom, walking
Samuel Pihlstrom, 1,500 meters
Simon Sundstrom, 3,000 m hurdles
Suldan Hassan, marathon
Thobias Montler, long jump
Vidar Johansson, 3,000 m hurdles
Wictor Petersson, shot put
William Asker, pole vault