Annette Viveka Tånnander-Bank (born Annette Tånnander on 13 February 1958 in

Malmö Malmö is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, sixth-largest city in Nordic countries, the Nordic region. Located on ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

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is a Swedish athlete who competed in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hep ...

and

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

events. She represented her native country twice in the Olympics: She was seventh in the 1976 Montreal Olympic high jump, clearing 1.87 m, and finished 14th in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic heptathlon with 5,908 points.Olympic Games, Los Angeles, July-August 1984, Women's heptathlon
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AIAW The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was a college athletics organization in the United States, founded in 1971 to govern women's college competitions in the country and to administer national championships (see AIAW Cham ...

for the Colorado Buffaloes track and field team, qualifying for the high jump finals at the 1979 AIAW Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

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External links

Sports-reference.com Profile

Annette Tånnander bio

Picture of Annette Tånnander from 1984
* 1958 births Living people Swedish heptathletes Swedish female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes from Malmö Olympic athletes for Sweden 20th-century Swedish sportswomen Colorado Buffaloes women's track and field athletes {{sweden-athletics-bio-stub