{{short description|Swedish high jumper}} {{Infobox sportsperson | image = 5074 kinsey (26002569742).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|03|10|df=y}} | birth_name = Erika Anna Kristina Wiklund | birth_place = Nälden, Sweden |height=186 cm |weight=73 kg | country = {{SWE}} | sport = | event = High jump<br>Long jump<br>Triple jump | club = Trångsvikens IF | collegeteam = Central Missouri Jennies | coach = | highestranking = | pb = '''High jump''': 1.97 m (2015) | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Competition|European Junior Championships}} {{Medal|Gold|2007 Hengelo|High jump}} | updated = 14 August 2015 }} '''Erika Anna Kristina Kinsey''' (née '''Wiklund'''; born 10 March 1988) is a Swedish high jumper. She was European Junior Champion in 2007.
==Biography== Wiklund was born in Nälden on 10 March 1988.<ref name="eskilstuna">{{cite web |url=http://eskilstuna2015.com/en/information/news/erika-kinsey-junior-star-who-went-the-long-road-and-qualified-to-the-world-championships |title=Erika Kinsey – junior star who went the long road and qualified to the World Championships |author=Hedman, Jonas |publisher=eskilstuna2015.com |date=20 July 2015 |accessdate=14 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722061330/http://eskilstuna2015.com/en/information/news/erika-kinsey-junior-star-who-went-the-long-road-and-qualified-to-the-world-championships |archivedate=22 July 2015 }}</ref> She took up sports as a child, playing ice hockey and association football in addition to competing in athletics; she did not start concentrating on the high jump until she was 14.<ref name="svt">{{cite web |url=http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/vasterbotten/europas-basta-junior-i-hojdhopp-finns-i-umea |title=Europas bästa junior i höjdhopp finns i Umeå |publisher=SVT |date=7 September 2007 |accessdate=14 August 2015 |language=Swedish}}</ref> She was a leading age group jumper, clearing 1.86 m in 2004; the jump ranked her fourth on the world youth list that year, and second among athletes born in 1988 or later.<ref name="ab">{{cite news |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/friidrott/article11144869.ab |title=Bättre än Kajsa |language=Swedish |newspaper=Aftonbladet |author=Svärdkrona, Zendry |date=23 July 2007 |accessdate=14 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/jumps/high-jump/outdoor/women/youth/2004 |title=High Jump - women - youth - outdoor - 2004 |publisher=International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) |accessdate=14 August 2015}}</ref> In the following years her development stagnated, and she did not improve her personal best again until the 2007 indoor season; she placed fifth at the 2005 World Youth Championships and eighth at the 2006 World Junior Championships.<ref name="ab"/><ref name="tp">{{tilastopaja|id=31382|sex=w}}</ref> In addition to the high jump, she occasionally competed in the long jump; she won both events at the 2005 Finland-Sweden youth international.<ref name="eskilstuna"/><ref name="tp"/>
Wiklund won gold in the high jump at the 2007 European Junior Championships in Hengelo. In a very close competition, the top four all cleared 1.82 m; Wiklund later said she did not realize she had won on countback until a photographer told her.<ref name="eskilstuna"/> Wiklund improved her personal best to 1.91 m in 2008, but concentrating on athletics exhausted her mentally; she dropped the sport in 2009 and moved to Norway, where her brother lived, taking up ice hockey again.<ref name="ltz">{{cite web |url=http://www.ltz.se/sport/friidrott/vad-gor-jag-egentligen-jag-har-ju-inte-natt-mina-drommar |title="Vad gör jag egentligen, jag har ju inte nått mina drömmar" |author=Gunnholt, Simon |language=Swedish |date=30 July 2014 |accessdate=14 August 2015 |publisher=ltz.se |archive-date=11 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911071048/http://www.ltz.se/sport/friidrott/vad-gor-jag-egentligen-jag-har-ju-inte-natt-mina-drommar |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ab2"/> She had a brief comeback in 2011, winning bronze with a jump of 1.82 m at the Swedish championships.<ref name="tp"/><ref name="gefle">{{cite web |url=http://www.gd.se/sport/friidrott/ar-utan-friidrott-tillbaka-hogst-upp-pa-pallen |publisher=Gefle Dagblad |language=Swedish |author=Selgeryd, Fredrik |title=År utan friidrott – tillbaka högst upp på pallen |date=18 July 2014 |accessdate=14 August 2015}}</ref>
In 2013 Wiklund decided to make a second, more serious comeback; she resumed high jumping in 2014, now as a student at the University of Central Missouri.<ref name="gefle"/> In the summer of 2014 she married Daniel Kinsey, an American, and changed her name to Erika Kinsey.<ref name="eskilstuna"/><ref name="ltz"/> She attempted to qualify for the 2014 European Championships in Zürich, but failed to reach the qualifying standard of 1.90 m; she had a season best of 1.88 m both indoors and outdoors.<ref name="tp"/><ref name="ltz"/>
Kinsey's results improved in 2015; she was NCAA Division II champion in the high jump both indoors and outdoors, and in the triple jump indoors, helping the Central Missouri Jennies win their first team titles.<ref name="tp"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucmathletics.com/news/2015/6/22/WTF_0622151711.aspx |title=UCM's Erika Kinsey Qualifies for Track and Field World Championships |date=22 June 2015 |accessdate=14 August 2015 |publisher=University of Central Missouri Athletics}}</ref> She unexpectedly<!-- yes, this is sourced --> cleared 1.97 m at the European Team Championships in Cheboksary, improving her personal best from the MIAA outdoor championships by five centimetres; the jump moved her to third on the Swedish all-time list (behind Kajsa Bergqvist and Emma Green), and exceeded the qualifying standard for the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.<ref name="tp"/><ref name="ab2">{{cite news |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/friidrott/article21000739.ab |title=Nya svenskknallen – Kinsey hoppade 1,97 |date=21 June 2015 |accessdate=14 August 2015 |newspaper=Aftonbladet |author=Wennerholm, Mats |language=Swedish}}</ref> She debuted in the IAAF Diamond League in July 2015 in Lausanne, jumping 1.94 m and placing third.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/friidrott/article21096833.ab |title=Kinsey missnöjd trea i Lausanne |language=Swedish |newspaper=Aftonbladet |date=9 July 2015 |accessdate=14 August 2015}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{World Athletics}}
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