{{Short description|Swedish athletics competitor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name= |nickname= |image=Maj Jacobsson.jpg | image_size = |caption=Maj Jacobsson, circa 1930 |birth_date={{birth date|df=y|1909|11|25}} |birth_place= Stockholm, Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1996|1|31|1909|11|25}} | death_place = Stockholm, Sweden | height = | weight = |sport=Athletics |event= 80 m hurdles, 200 m, long jump |club=IK Göta |pb= 80 mH – 12.1 (1930)<br/>200 m – 27.1 (1930)<br/>LJ – 5.38 m (1930)<ref name=r4/> |alma_mater= | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{SWE}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Women's World Games}} {{MedalGold|1930 Prague| 80 m hurdles}} }}
'''Maj Jacobsson''' (25 November 1909 – 31 January 1996)<ref name=r1/> was a Swedish athlete who won the 80 metres hurdles event at the 1930 Women's World Games.
==Biography== Domestically she won eight titles in 1929–1930, in the 80 metres, 80 metres hurdles, 200 metres, long jump and standing long jump.<ref name=r3/>
In August 1930, she won the national titles in 80 metres, 200 metres, 80 metres hurdles, long jump, standing long jump and 4 × 80 metres relay at the Swedish Women's Athletics Championships in Norrköping.<ref>{{cite book| last=Wiger | first=Erik | year=2006 | title=Svenska mästerskapen i friidrott 1896-2005: medaljörerna, historierna, bilderna : 110 år, 702 SM-arrangemang och 14 500 medaljer | publisher=Textograf | location=Trångsund | language=sv | isbn=91-631-9065-6|pages=19–31, 180, 184, 210, 222, 224, 242}}</ref> On 2 September 1930, she broke the 80 metres hurdles world record with a time of 12.1.<ref>{{citation | url=http://iaaf-ebooks.s3.amazonaws.com/2015/Progression-of-IAAF-World-Records-2015/projet/IAAF-WRPB-2015.pdf | title=Progression of IAAF World Records 2015 edition | publisher=International Association of Athletics Federations | year=2015 | editor-first=Richard |editor-last=Hymans |editor-first2=Imre |editor-last2=Matrahazi}}</ref><ref name=nfs/> Later the same year, she competed at the 1930 Women's World Games, and won the 80 metres hurdles event and finished fourth in the long jump event.<ref name=nfs>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Lindhagen |first=Sven |encyclopedia = Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon: uppslagsverk för sport, gymnastik och friluftsliv. Band 4 Hockey–Lahtinen |title = Jacobsson, Maj, g. Widlund |trans-title = |url = https://runeberg.org/sportlex/4/0244.html |language = sv |year = 1941 |publisher = Nordisk familjeboks förlag |location = Stockholm |pages = 399–400 }}</ref>
During her career, she set Swedish records in 80 metres, 200 metres, 80 metres hurdles (four times), long jump, standing long jump and triathlon.<ref name=nfs/> Jacobsson represented Stockholms KBK in 1929 and IK Göta in 1930, which was the year she ended her career.<ref name=nfs/>
She was married to Eivar Widlund, an association football goalkeeper.<ref name=r3/>
==References== <references>
<ref name=r1>Sveriges Dödbok 1901–2009, DVD-ROM, Version 5.00, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2010)</ref> <ref name=r3>[http://www.storagrabbar.se/grabbar_3.html Maj Jacobsson Widlund 1909–1996] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616084107/http://www.storagrabbar.se/grabbar_3.html |date=16 June 2015 }}. storagrabbar.se</ref> <ref name=r4>[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=1170&Gender=W&Page=Results.asp&EventCode=WB1 Maj Jacobsson]. trackfield.brinkster.net</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobsson, Maj}} Category:1909 births Category:1996 deaths Category:Swedish women sprinters Category:Swedish women long jumpers Category:Swedish women hurdlers Category:Athletes from Stockholm Category:IK Göta athletes Category:20th-century Swedish sportswomen
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