Louise Ekman
Swedish high jumper (born 1997)
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Louise Ekman (born 10 April 1997) is a Swedish high jumper. She won the Swedish Indoor Championships in 2023. In 2026, she moved to third on the Swedish all-time indoor list with a jump of 1.96 metres, later placing sixth overall at the 2026 World Indoor Championships.[1]
Biography
From Gävle,[2] Ekman is coached by Bengt Jönsson, and is a member of Gefle IF.[3][4] She was a finalist in the high jump at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships.[5] Ekman placed third at the 2021 Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships in Malmö with 1.83 metres, and was runner-up the following year behind Maja Nilsson with a jump of 1.84 metres.[6][7][8]
Ekman won the Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships in 2023 February in Malmö, winning ahead of Bianca Salming with 1.81 metres.[9] Later that year, she was also runner-up competing outdoors at the 2023 Nordic Athletics Championships in Copenhagen and the Swedish Athletics Championships in Söderhamn.[10][11]
In June 2024, she jumped 1.85 to place third at the Swedish Athletics Championships in Uddevalla.[12] In February 2025, she cleared 1.87 metres to place second behind Engla Nilsson at the Swedish Indoor Championships in Växjö.[13] In August, she was runner-up to Ella Junnila at the Finnkampen in Stockholm.[14]
At the start of 2026, Ekman added nine centimetres to her personal best, first jumping 1.91 meters in Lyon, France, before having a third place finish in February at the Banskobystricka latka in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, with 1.96 metres.[15][16] The jump moved her third on the Swedish all-time indoor list and was the best jump by a Swedish indoors for 12 years. It also met the automatic standard for the 2026 World Indoor Championships.[4][3][17] Competing at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland, she placed sixth with a cleared height of 1.93 metres.[18]
On 15 August, she placed sixth with a clearance of 1.88 metres at the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham, England.[19]