Kalle Berglund

Kalle Berglund

Kalle Berglund in July 2015
Personal information
Born	(1996-03-11) 11 March 1996 (age 25) Jämshög, Sweden
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	800 m, 1500 m
Club	Spårvägens FK
Coached by	Jan Bengtsson

Kalle Anders Berglund (born 11 March 1996 in Jämshög) is a Swedish middle-distance runner.^[2] He won the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 2017 European Indoor Championships.

During the Bislett Games in Oslo on 13 June 2019, he broke the Swedish record on the one English mile (1609 metres) distance with the time 3.53,83 minutes. With that, he broke Anders Gärderud's record on the same distance, which was 3.54,45 minutes.^[3]

International competitions[]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Sweden
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, United States	7th	800 m	1:47.31
2015	European Junior Championships	Eskilstuna, Sweden	4th	800 m	1:49.88
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	18th (h)	800 m	1:49.65
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	2nd	1500 m	3:45.56
	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	13th (h)	1500 m	3:44.56
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	11th (sf)	1500 m	3:40.05
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	11th (h)	1500 m	3:46.61
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	11th (h)	1500 m	3:41.25
2019	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	9th	1500 m	3:33.70
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	41st (h)	1500 m	3:49.43

Personal bests[]

Outdoor

• 400 metres – 48.20 (Espoo 2015)
• 800 metres – 1:46.85 (Cheboksary 2015)
• 1000 metres – 2:20.63 (Gothenburg 2015)
• 1500 metres – 3:33.70 (Doha 2019) NR

Indoor

• 400 metres – 51.19 (Karlskrona 2013)
• 800 metres – 1:47.62 (Växjö 2017)
• 1500 metres – 3:37.69 (Birmingham 2017) NR
• One mile – 4:01.00 (Athlone 2018)
• 3000 metres – 8:06.66 (Uppsala 2018)

References[]

• All-Athletics profile