High-jumper Patrik Sjöberg is one of Sweden’s best known and most successful sportsmen through the ages. He has won a world championship gold medal, three Olympic medals and still holds the Swedish record in high jump with his feat of 2.42 metres at ...
High-jumper Patrik Sjöberg is one of Sweden’s best known and most successful sportsmen through the ages. He has won a world championship gold medal, three Olympic medals and still holds the Swedish record in high jump with his feat of 2.42 metres at the Dagens Nyheter Gala in Stockholm in 1987, a record that has only been beaten by Javier Sotomayor.
But what is Patrik Sjöberg really like? Many of us remember the superior sportsman, cockily smoking a cigarette between jumps. A man we, now and then, know as rather clumsy, outspoken and direct. A rock star of the sports world. But how did he get there?
In these new memoirs, Patrik Sjöberg for the first time tells his own story – honestly, directly and with an open heart. With his own words, he describes his life and we get to meet the man behind the sporting feats, the man behind the newspaper headlines.