Kluft was an exceptional junior, developing very quickly compared to most multi-event athletes. During the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics, at the age of 19, she set read more...

A massive score of 4933 points secured the pentathlon title at the 2003 World Indoor Championships. Klüft followed this with personal bests and victories in the heptathlons in read more...

Klüft competed in the long jump at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, winning a bronze medal with a national record of 6.92 m. She warmed up for the 2004 Olympics by winning read more...

She began 2005 by winning the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships with a new PB of 4948 points. A third consecutive victory at Götzis and another in Jyväskylä read more...

She chose not to compete at the 2006 World Indoor Championships in order to prepare for the European Championships, to be staged on home soil in Sweden. Klüft won again in Götzis read more...

Her victory in the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham was by a margin of only 17 points over home favourite Kelly Sotherton. Klüft again narrowly missed the world read more...

She competed in an indoor triathlon (60 m hurdles, long jump and 400 m) in the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. Klüft narrowly won the competition after setting an indoor personal read more...

Although Klüft did not defend her heptathlon title at the Beijing Olympics, she has stated that she may yet contest another heptathlon, after the 2008 season.

Carolina Evelyn Klüft (in Swedish pronounced [klʏft]) (born February 2, 1983) is a Swedish athlete competing in triple jump, long jump and formerly in heptathlon and pentathlon. read more...

Born in Sandhult, Västergötland, Carolina Klüft grew up in Växjö, where her father, mother and three sisters still live. She currently lives in Karlskrona together read more...