Wictor Petersson
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| Born | 17 April 1998 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Shot put | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Hässleholms AIS (−2013) Malmö AI (2014−) | ||||||||||||||
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Wictor Petersson (born 1 May 1998) is a Swedish athlete specialising in the shot put.[1] He represented his country at the 2019 World Championships in Doha without reaching the final. Earlier that year he won a bronze medal at the European U23 Championships.[2]
His personal bests in the event are 21.16 meters outdoors (Varberg 2025) and 21.49 meters indoors (Växjö 2025). He is the national record holder in both indoors and outdoors. He ranked 8th in the world for shot put as of mid-2025, but only ranked 15th as of 5 September 2025.[3] He failed to get into the Top Ten for shot pot in the 2025 World Athletics Championships at Tokyo, ranking 11th in those games.[4]
