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2014 Women's Track & Field Roster

Ida Virdebrant

Ida Virdebrant

  • Position:
    Jumps
  • Height:
    5-5
  • Class:
    Freshman
  • High School:
    Katedralskolan
  • Hometown:
    Nobbele, Sweden

Summary

Biography

2014 Outdoors: Took fifth place in the high jump (5’5¼) at the ASU Invitational on March 28…Cleared 5’8 to win the gold medal in the high jump at the MAAC Outdoor Championships on May 3. 

2013-14 Indoors: Won the high jump (5’7) at the Manhattan College Opener on Dec. 6…Established a new school record of 5’10½ in the high jump at the Brother Jasper Invitational on Dec. 13…Finished first in the high jump (5’5) at the Metropolitan Indoor Championships on Jan. 30…Bettered her own school mark by clearing 5’10¾ in the high jump at the Draddy Invitational on Feb. 15…Broke a 25-year-old meet record with a mark of 5’8¾ to capture the gold medal in the high jump at the MAAC Indoor Championships on Feb. 21…Cleared 5’8¾ again, which was good for the silver medal, at the ECAC Indoor Championships on March 8.

Before Manhattan: Represented Sweden in the high jump at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain, and the 2011 European Junior Championships in Tallinn, Estonia…Set an indoor personal best of 1.84 meters (6’4¼) in the high jump on Jan. 21, 2012…Leaped an outdoor personal-best 1.80 m (5’11¼) in Espoo, Finland on Sept. 10, 2011.

Personal: Daughter of Jan-Erik Virdebrant and Wireka Delin…Has one brother, Pontus…A distant relative of 2004 Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft…Born on April 4, 1994.

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