Anton Andersson

Anton Andersson (born 12 March 1981) is a Swedish triple jumper. He competed at one World Championships and one European Indoor Championships, took three individual Swedish titles outdoors and two indoors.

Career Andersson hails from Halmstad and represented IFK Halmstad. His "breakthrough" was a competition in Halmstad at the age of 17 when he jumped 7.40 metres in the long jump. An active long jumper during his youth, Andersson achieved a lifetime best of 7.74 metres at the 2000 Swedish U23 championships in Västerås. In the same event, he competed in his first Finland–Sweden International, finishing fifth, and competed at the 2000 World Junior Championships without registering a valid jump. In the triple jump, he took his first national senior medal with a bronze at the 2000 Swedish indoor championships. He then became double Swedish U23 champion in 2001 and won silver at the Swedish championships, the latter in a personal best of 15.92 metres.

Andersson was now coached by Yannick Tregaro in Örgryte IS. He belonged to the training group of eventual Olympic champion Christian Olsson, who was leaner, faster and more technical. Anton Andersson measures 1.94 metres and was more of a power jumper.

In 2002, Andersson broke the 16-metre barrier in the second indoor meet. 16.12 metres in Gothenburg followed by a silver medal in 16.39 at the Swedish indoor championships earned him a ticket to the 2002 European Indoor Championships, where he albeit failed to reach the final. He now competed mostly in the triple jump throughout the year, winning a series of Swedish meets, jumping 16.49 metres at DN Galan, winning his first Swedish championships and finishing second at the Finland–Sweden International. he resumed his ways with an indoor bronze and outdoor gold in 2004, and then a repetition of his 16.49 PB at the Finland–Sweden International where he again finished second. He upgraded to first place at the 2005 edition, when his season's best was 16.43 metres from the 2005 European Cup First League. He missed most of 2006, as well as most of the 2007 indoor season. Travelling to Japan, he claimed to have had his longest training jump ever, but at the 2007 World Championships he did not reaching the final round. After the World Championships, Andersson took his only victory at the Finland–Sweden International, but finished lowly at the ISTAF Golden League meet. He was indicted into the Swedish version of the hall of fame, receiving a Stora grabbars märke.

Andersson won the 2008 Swedish indoor championships, but missed the rest of 2008. A similar thing happened in 2009; a silver at the indoor nationals but no no result outdoors. Another indoor gold came in 2010, but Andersson did not surpass 16 metres.