# Erika Kinsey

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{{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](/source/N%C3%A4lden), [Sweden](/source/Sweden)
|height=186 cm
|weight=73 kg
| country        = {{SWE}}
| sport          = 
| event          = [High jump](/source/High_jump)<br>[Long jump](/source/Long_jump)<br>[Triple jump](/source/Triple_jump)
| club           = Trångsvikens IF
| collegeteam    = [Central Missouri Jennies](/source/Central_Missouri_Jennies)
| coach          = 
| highestranking = 
| pb             = '''High jump''': 1.97&nbsp;m (2015)
| medaltemplates = 
{{Medal|Competition|[European Junior Championships](/source/European_Athletics_Junior_Championships)}}
{{Medal|Gold|[2007 Hengelo](/source/2007_European_Athletics_Junior_Championships)|High jump}}
| updated        = 14 August 2015
}}
'''Erika Anna Kristina Kinsey''' (née '''Wiklund'''; born 10 March 1988) is a Swedish [high jump](/source/high_jump)er. She was [European Junior Champion](/source/2007_European_Athletics_Junior_Championships) in 2007.

==Biography==
Wiklund was born in [Nälden](/source/N%C3%A4lden) 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](/source/ice_hockey) and [association football](/source/association_football) in addition to competing in [athletics](/source/sport_of_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](/source/Sveriges_Television) |date=7 September 2007 |accessdate=14 August 2015 |language=Swedish}}</ref> She was a leading age group jumper, clearing 1.86&nbsp;m in 2004; the jump ranked her fourth on the world [youth](/source/Youth_(athletics)) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/2005_World_Youth_Championships_in_Athletics) and eighth at the [2006 World Junior Championships](/source/2006_World_Junior_Championships_in_Athletics).<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](/source/Finland-Sweden_Athletics_International).<ref name="eskilstuna"/><ref name="tp"/>

Wiklund won gold in the high jump at the [2007 European Junior Championships](/source/2007_European_Athletics_Junior_Championships) in [Hengelo](/source/Hengelo). In a very close competition, the top four all cleared 1.82&nbsp;m; Wiklund later said she did not realize she had won on [countback](/source/High_jump) until a photographer told her.<ref name="eskilstuna"/> Wiklund improved her personal best to 1.91&nbsp;m in 2008, but concentrating on athletics exhausted her mentally; she dropped the sport in 2009 and moved to [Norway](/source/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&nbsp;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](/source/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](/source/2014_European_Athletics_Championships) in [Zürich](/source/Z%C3%BCrich), but failed to reach the qualifying standard of 1.90&nbsp;m; she had a season best of 1.88&nbsp;m both indoors and outdoors.<ref name="tp"/><ref name="ltz"/>

Kinsey's results improved in 2015; she was [NCAA Division II](/source/NCAA_Division_II) champion in the high jump both indoors and outdoors, and in the [triple jump](/source/triple_jump) indoors, helping the [Central Missouri Jennies](/source/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&nbsp;m at the [European Team Championships](/source/2015_European_Team_Championships_Super_League) in [Cheboksary](/source/Cheboksary), improving her personal best from the [MIAA](/source/Mid-America_Intercollegiate_Athletics_Association) outdoor championships by five centimetres; the jump moved her to third on the Swedish all-time list (behind [Kajsa Bergqvist](/source/Kajsa_Bergqvist) and [Emma Green](/source/Emma_Green_(athlete))), and exceeded the qualifying standard for the [2015 World Championships](/source/2015_World_Championships_in_Athletics) in [Beijing](/source/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](/source/IAAF_Diamond_League) in July 2015 in [Lausanne](/source/Athletissima), jumping 1.94&nbsp;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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Category:1988 births
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Category:Swedish women high jumpers
Category:Central Missouri Jennies track and field athletes
Category:Sportspeople from Jämtland County
Category:World Athletics Championships athletes for Sweden
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Sweden
Category:Swedish Athletics Championships winners
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:21st-century Swedish sportswomen
Category:People from Krokom Municipality

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