Birth Date: | 10 June 1922 |
Birth Place: | Stenungsund, Sweden |
Death Date: | 5 January 2013 (aged 90) |
Death Place: | Hisings Kärra, Sweden |
Height: | 1.68m (05.51feet) |
Weight: | 64kg (141lb) |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | 100 m, 200 m, long jump |
Club: | Kvinnliga IK Sport |
Pb: | 100 m – 12.0 (1948) 200 m – 25.8 (1946) LJ – 5.58 m (1948) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Ann-Britt Leyman (later Olsson; 10 June 1922 – 5 January 2013) was a Swedish sprinter and long jumper who won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Leyman never won a national long jump title, but she won 15 national sprint championships: in the 80 m (1941), 100 m (1942–44 and 1946–49) and 200 m (1942–47 and 1949). At the 1946 European Athletics Championships she finished fourth-sixth in the 100 m, 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay events.