Angelica Bengtsson
Angelica Bengtsson in September 2010
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| Full name | Angelica Therese Bengtsson |
| Nationality |
 Sweden
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| Born |
8 July 1993 Väckelsång, Sweden |
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) |
| Website | http://www.angelicabengtsson.com |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | outdoor: 4.70 m (2015) indoor: 4.70 m (2015) |
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Angelica Therese Bengtsson (born 8 July 1993) is a Swedish track and field athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She became the first pole vault winner at the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, 2010.
She has been a highly successful youth and junior athlete, winning gold medals at the 2009 World Youth Championships and the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She set a mark of 4.47 m for the youth world record for the event in 2010 and broke the world junior record with a vault of 4.63 m in 2011. She has already had success at senior level, having won the national indoor championships twice. She is also the Swedish national record holder. Her father is Swedish and her mother is Afro-Brazilian.
Born on 8 July 1993 in Väckelsång, Sweden, Angelica Bengtsson initially started out in gymnastics and also hoped to follow in her father's footsteps in the javelin throw. It quickly became apparent that she had a talent for pole vaulting; however, and she began her career at club level for IFK Växjö, before going on to join Hässelby SK. She enjoyed her first global victory at the 2009 IAAF World Youth Championships, where at the age of sixteen she won the pole vault gold medal with a clearance of 4.32 metres. This was a significant winning margin of 22 cm over the rest of the field.
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