Malin Wästlund Explained

Malin Wästlund
Fullname:Malin Charlotta Wästlund
Birth Date:27 April 1964
Sport:Athletics
Event:15K run, half marathon
Club:IF Spexarna
Pb:15K: 49:21 (1987)

Malin Charlotta Wästlund (born 27 April 1964) is a Swedish former long-distance runner. She represented Sweden twice at the IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships, placing fourth in 1987 with a Swedish national record of 49:21 minutes for the 15K run and placing fifth at the 1988 race.[1] [2] She also competed at the 1988 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, finished fifteenth in the women's senior race.

Born in Högsbo, near Gothenburg, she competed for IF Spexarna during her career.[3] She won one national title in her career at the 1987 Swedish Half Marathon Championships.[4] She was also runner-up at the Swedish Cross Country Championships that year.[5] In Swedish cross country competitions, she won the 1987 Tjejmilen and was runner-up there and at the Lidingöloppet in 1989.[6]

International competitions

1987World Women's Road Race ChampionshipsMonte Carlo, Monaco4th15K49:21
1988World Cross Country ChampionshipsAuckland, New Zealand15thSenior race19:55
World Women's Road Race ChampionshipsAdelaide, Australia5th15K50:42

National titles

Notes and References

  1. https://more.arrs.run/race/10325/1/position/asc/2/position/asc 1987 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships
  2. https://more.arrs.run/raceSeries/1004 1988 IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships
  3. Sveriges befolkning 1970, CD-ROM, Version 1.04, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2002).
  4. http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/swe.htm Swedish Championships
  5. Svenska Mästerskapen i friidrott 1896-2005. Trångsund: Erik Wiger/TextoGraf Förlag. 2006
  6. https://more.arrs.run/runner/5835 Malin Wastlan