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. 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.
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.
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. Yelena Isinbayeva condemned Green Tregaro's action at a press conference, but later clarified her views. 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.
Competition record
Representing 2002World Junior ChampionshipsKingston, Jamaica9thHigh jump1.80 m2003European Junior ChampionshipsTampere, Finland3rdHigh jump1.86 m2005European Indoor ChampionshipsMadrid, Spain8thHigh jump1.89 mEuropean U23 ChampionshipsErfurt, Germany2ndHigh jump1.92 mWorld ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland3rdHigh jump1.96 m2006World Indoor ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia14th (q)High jump1.90 mEuropean CupMálaga, Spain5th200 metres23.02 (wind: +0.6 m/s)4th4 × 100 m relay44.53European ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden11thHigh jump1.92 m5th4 × 100 m relay44.162007European Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom9th (q)High jump1.87 mWorld ChampionshipsOsaka, Japan7thHigh jump1.94 mWorld Athletics FinalStuttgart, Germany8thHigh jump1.85 m2008World Indoor ChampionshipsValencia, Spain13th (q)High jump1.86 mOlympic GamesBeijing, China6thHigh jump1.96 m2009European Team ChampionshipsLeiria, Portugal5thHigh jump1.95 mWorld ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany6thHigh jump1.96 m2010World Indoor ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar5thHigh jump1.94 mEuropean ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain2ndHigh jump2.01 m Diamond League 3rdHigh jump details2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea10thHigh jump1.89 m2012World Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey9th (q)High jump1.92 mEuropean ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland3rdHigh jump1.92 mOlympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom8thHigh jump1.93 m2013European Indoor ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden3rdHigh jump1.96 mWorld ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia5thHigh jump1.97 m Diamond League 3rd High jump details2014World Indoor ChampionshipsSopot, Poland5thHigh jump1.94 mEuropean ChampionshipsZürich, Switzerland9thHigh jump1.90 m2017European Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia19th (q)High jump1.86 m
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 Female two metres club
References
External links
www.friidrott.se Results DB interview with 20 years old Emma Green at SVT's open archive