Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Born | 3 January 1994 | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 105 kg (231 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||
Club | Hässelby SK | ||||||||||||||
Coached by | Vésteinn Hafsteinsson | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Simon Pettersson (born 3 January 1994) is a Swedish athlete specialising in the discus throw.[2] He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships finishing eleventh in the final and the 2018 European Championships finishing fourth in the final.
His personal best in the event is 70.42 metres set in Norrköping, Sweden in August 2022, at the Swedish championship where he also won gold medal.[3] Earlier in his career he competed in the decathlon.
Pettersson competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal with a throw of 67.39 metres.