Siv Gustavsson

Siv Gustavsson
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Sweden
IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Gold medal – first place 1981 Valencia 5 km walk
European Athletics Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1986 Stuttgart 10 km walk
Siv Gustavsson (Karlström) during the Finland-Sweden Athletics International in Stockholms 2019.

Siv Gustavsson[nb] (born 9 July 1957) is a Swedish former racewalking athlete.[1][2] She was the gold medallist at the 1981 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, making her the second ever female world champion in the sport.

Gustavsson also won a bronze at the 1986 European Athletics Championships – the first year women's walks were held at that event. She won fifteen Swedish national titles from 1976 to 2004 over distance from 3000 m to 20 km.[3]

  1. ^ Siw Ibanez. All Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-07-20.
  2. ^ Siv Gustavsson at World Athletics Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Swedish Championships Archived 2013-11-15 at the Wayback Machine. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-07-20.