# Fanny Roos
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{{Short description|Swedish shot putter (born 1995)}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Fanny Roos
| image = Fanny Roos.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption =
| nationality =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1995|01|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Ljungby](/source/Ljungby), Sweden
| height = 1.73 m
| weight =
| sport = [Athletics](/source/Athletics_(sport))
| event = [Shot put](/source/Shot_put)
| education =
| club = Ljungby FIK
Atleticum Växjö SK
| coach = [Vésteinn Hafsteinsson](/source/V%C3%A9steinn_Hafsteinsson)
| pb = outdoor: 19.66 m '''[NR](/source/List_of_Swedish_records_in_athletics)''' (2025)
indoor: 19.29 m (2021)
| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport | Women's [athletics](/source/Sport_of_athletics)}}
{{MedalCountry|{{SWE}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[European Indoor Championships](/source/European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships)}}
{{MedalSilver|[2021 Toruń](/source/2021_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships)|[Shot put](/source/2021_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_shot_put)}}
{{MedalBronze|[2023 Istanbul](/source/2023_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships)|[Shot put](/source/2023_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women's_shot_put)}}
{{MedalCompetition|[European U23 Championships](/source/European_Athletics_U23_Championships)}}
{{MedalGold|[2017 Bydgoszcz](/source/2017_European_Athletics_U23_Championships)|Shot put}}
}}
'''Fanny Matilda Charlotta Roos''' (born 2 January 1995) is a [Swedish](/source/Sweden) athlete specialising in the [shot put](/source/shot_put).[{{World Athletics}}] She won a silver medal at the [2021 European Indoor Championships](/source/2021_European_Athletics_Indoor_Championships), while setting an outright national record of 19.29 meters in the final.[{{cite news |publisher=European Athletics |title=Ingebrigtsen reinstated as European indoor 1500m champion |url=https://european-athletics.com/news/ingebrigtsen-reinstated-as-european-indoor-1500m-champion- |access-date=4 July 2021 |date=5 March 2021 |language=en}}] In doing so, Roos made history by becoming the first Swedish woman in 93 years, and the second overall, to medal in a throwing event at the Olympics, World-, or European Championships. The first to do so was [Ruth Svedberg](/source/Ruth_Svedberg), who won a bronze medal in the [discus throw](/source/discus_throw) at the [1928 Summer Olympics](/source/Athletics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics).[{{cite news |last1=Hedman |first1=Jonas |title=Historisk prestation av Fanny Roos – första kvinnliga kulmedaljen genom tiderna |url=https://www.friidrottaren.com/historisk-prestation-av-fanny-roos-forsta-kvinnliga-kastmedaljen-pa-93-ar/ |access-date=4 July 2021 |date=5 March 2021 |language=sv}}]
Roos represented Sweden at the [2017](/source/2017_World_Athletics_Championships) and [2019 World Championships](/source/2019_World_Athletics_Championships), but failed to reach the final on both occasions. She reached 7th place at the [2020 Summer Olympics](/source/2020_Summer_Olympics).
Her personal bests in the event are 19.66 metres outdoors (national record - [Shanghai](/source/2025_Shanghai_Diamond_League) 2025) and 19.29 metres indoors (national record - Torun 2021).[{{cite web|url= https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7199680?eventId=10229533 |website=World Athletics|accessdate=3 May 2025|title= Yangtze River Delta Athletics Diamond Gala |date=3 May 2025}}]