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}} Carolina Evelyn Klüft ((:klʏft)) (born 2 February 1983) is a Swedish retired athlete competing in heptathlon, triple jump, long jump, and pentathlon. She won the Olympic heptathlon title in 2004. She is also a three-time World and double European heptathlon champion. Klüft first rose to prominence by winning the heptathlon at the 2002 European Championships and setting a new world junior record of 6,542 points. She then won the 2003 World Championships becoming the third athlete ever to score over 7,000 points. She is the European record holder for heptathlon with a personal best of 7,032 points. This score ranks her second on the all-time heptathlon points score list, behind Jackie Joyner-Kersee who set the world record of 7,291 points.〔(Top all-time heptathlon scores )〕 Klüft was unbeaten in 22 heptathlon and pentathlon competitions since March 2002, winning nine consecutive gold medals in major championships. She is the only athlete ever to win three world titles in heptathlon. On 2 September 2012 at the Finland-Sweden athletics international at Ullevi Carolina Klüft officially ended her career and retired from sports. ==Personal life and profile== Born in Sandhult, Västergötland, Klüft grew up in Växjö, where her father, mother and three sisters still live. She currently lives in Norrköping together with her husband Patrik Klüft, who is a former pole vaulter. They were married in September 2007 at Crichton Parish Church in Midlothian, Scotland. Klüft comes from a family with sporting traditions: her father Johnny played professional football in the Swedish Allsvenskan and her mother was an international long jumper.〔(2004 interview, The Independent )〕 She started out playing football herself but took up athletics at the age of twelve. She has described being subjected to bullying at school after moving to Växjö and subsequently using her athletic prowess to gain respect.〔(Observer interview, 2005 )〕 Klüft took up the heptathlon in 2000 after coach Agne Bergvall suggested she had a future in it. Bergvall has been her main coach ever since. Klüft is 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) tall and weighs 65 kg (140 lb / 10.2 stone). Her physique is well-suited to multi-events: she is tall and lean for the running and jumping events but also powerful enough to perform well in the shot put and javelin. She has shown more natural ability in the jumping events, sprinting and hurdles, and has steadily improved in the throwing events and 800 m and has now been described as having no weaknesses across the seven events.〔(IAAF biog )〕 This is demonstrated by her finishing in the top six in all disciplines of the 2007 World Championship heptathlon.〔(2007 World Championship results )〕 She is also a member of the Swedish 4 x 100 m relay team at international competitions, and was part of the team that set the national record. She is particularly friendly with British rival Kelly Sotherton, and the two can often be seen chatting during competitions. Klüft regularly leads the other heptathletes on a lap of honor after a major competition. She is often referred to by the nickname 'Carro' by people who know her. When not training or competing, Klüft is a student at the Linnaeus University, studying Peace and Development. She visited areas of Sri Lanka hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake to make a film for Swedish TV〔(Plan Sri Lanka )〕 and also sponsors children in Africa. She is part of Reebok's "I am what I am" advertising campaign along with several other sports stars.〔(Carolina Kluft, I am what I am )〕 She has been the focus of poster photography for Reebok, taken by celebrity photographer Jason Bell.〔(Extraordinary performances in an ordinary world )〕 Klüft was nominated for four consecutive Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year awards from 2005–2008.〔(Carolina Kluft: Laureus profile )〕 She has a mascot, a small stuffed toy representing Eeyore, that she takes everywhere. Klüft claims that this is not for luck, but to remind her of her philosophy that sport is for fun.〔(Stars of Athens 1: Carolina Kluft )〕 She is one of very few athletes to at some time hold all five available international titles: Olympic, World Outdoor, Regional (Europe in her case) Outdoor, World Indoor and Regional Indoor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carolina Klüft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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