Elin Östlund (born 14 February 1992) is a Swedish sprinter. She is a two-time Swedish Athletics Championships national champion in the

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slight ...

(outdoors) and

60 metres 60 metres, or 60-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At indoor events, the 60 metres is run on lanes set out in the mi ...

(indoors), and a finalist at the

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in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the indiv ...

Biography

Östlund's first appearance at the senior Swedish Athletics Championships was in 2008, where she finished 7th in the

100 m The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at ...

with a time of 12.12. Her first international championship final was in 2013, when she finished 6th in the 4 × 100 m at the

. In 2017, Östlund made her

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debut at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting. She finished 8th in the

200 m The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a Sprint (running), sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run th ...

with a time of 23.82 seconds. Her first two national titles also came that year, both indoors (in the

60 m 60 metres, or 60-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name ...

) and outdoors (in the 200 m). Östlund then had an

achilles tendon The Achilles tendon or heel cord, also known as the calcaneal tendon, is a tendon at the back of the lower leg, and is the thickest in the human body. It serves to attach the plantaris, gastrocnemius (calf) and soleus muscles to the calcane ...

injury, which healed by her 2020 season opener. Later that year, she set personal bests at 60 metres and 200 metres indoors. Östlund trains with the KFUM Örebro club in

Örebro Örebro ( ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...

, Sweden.

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