Malin Wästlund
Personal information | |
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Full name | Malin Charlotta Wästlund |
Born | 27 April 1964 |
Sport | |
Country | Sweden |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 15K run, half marathon |
Club | IF Spexarna |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests | 15K: 49:21 (1987) NR |
Malin Charlotta Wästlund (born 27 April 1964) is a Swedish former long-distance runner. She represented Sweden twice at the IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships, placing fourth in 1987 with a Swedish national record of 49:21 minutes for the 15K run and placing fifth at the 1988 race.[1][2] She also competed at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finished fifteenth in the women's senior race.[3]
Born in Högsbo, near Gothenburg, she competed for IF Spexarna during her career.[4] She won one national title in her career at the 1987 Swedish Half Marathon Championships.[5] She was also runner-up at the Swedish Cross Country Championships that year.[6] In Swedish cross country competitions, she won the 1987 Tjejmilen and was runner-up there and at the Lidingöloppet in 1989.[7]
International competitions
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1987 | World Women's Road Race Championships | Monte Carlo, Monaco | 4th | 15K | 49:21 NR |
1988 | World Cross Country Championships | Auckland, New Zealand | 15th | Senior race | 19:55 |
World Women's Road Race Championships | Adelaide, Australia | 5th | 15K | 50:42 |
National titles
[edit]- Swedish Athletics Championships
- Half marathon: 1987
References
[edit]- ^ 1987 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
- ^ 1988 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
- ^ Magnusson, Tomas (September 8, 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 6.0km CC Women - Auckland Elleslie Date: Saturday, March 26, 1988, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on October 16, 2007, retrieved October 23, 2013
- ^ Sveriges befolkning 1970, CD-ROM, Version 1.04, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2002).
- ^ Swedish Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ^ Svenska Mästerskapen i friidrott 1896-2005. Trångsund: Erik Wiger/TextoGraf Förlag. 2006
- ^ Malin Wastlan. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2020-03-21.