Emil Johansson (born 10 June 2002) is a Swedish
sprint
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er. He was the
2020 Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships winner in the 400 metres.
Biography
After achieving the fastest mark at the trials, Johannson earned his first international medals at the
2019 European Youth Olympic Festival. He won a gold in the individual 400 metres, and a silver medal running the 300 metres leg of the
Swedish medley relay Swedish relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners. The first runner runs 100 meters, the second one 200 m, the third one 300 m and the fourth runner 400 m, so the total length of the race is one kilometer.
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.
In 2020, Johansson achieved his first national title by winning the
2020 Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships. Outdoors, he won the
Finnkampen in a personal best of 46.95 seconds.
In 2023, Johansson was a member of the
Swedish record-breaking team in the
mixed 4 × 400 metres relay
The mixed 4 × 400 metres relay is a 4 × 400 metres relay in which teams field two men and two women, in whatever order they choose. It was introduced at the 2017 IAAF World Relays and was then held at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in ...
. The following week, he won the Swedish
BAUHAUS-galan trials in the 400 metres. The time was a personal best of 46.69 seconds, his first time improvement in three years.
Johannson is from
Bollstanäs,
Upplands Väsby and he competes for the
Turebergs FK
Turebergs Friidrottsklubb is an athletics club based in Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden.
Some athletes affiliated with it are Olympic high jump champion Kajsa Bergqvist and her coach Bengt Jönsson, sprinters Eric Josjö
Bo Er ...
athletics club.
Statistics
Personal bests
References
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Living people
2002 births
Swedish male sprinters
21st-century Swedish people
People from Upplands Väsby Municipality
Swedish Athletics Championships winners