Swedish medals in Kazakhstan

Four golds, seven silvers and one bronze... Congrats to Sweden's strong women! 

  • Professional arm wrestler Heidi Anderson in front of a group of Swedish female arm wrestlers. Female Swedish arm wrestlers did very well at the recent World Championship in arm wrestling, held in Kazakhstan.
  • Congrats to Sweden's strong women!

  • When the World Championship in arm wrestling came to a close in Kazakhstan, ten Swedish ladies showed off twelve medals of different kinds: four golds, seven silvers and one bronze. Heidi Andersson from Ensamheten in Lapland took her ninth World Championship gold medal (in right-armed arm wrestling). Sarah Bäckman took gold in a lighter weight class. The Swedes each beat a Russian in their respective finals, and they both took silver in left-armed arm wrestling. Pirjo Lauteri and Maria Wester also took gold medals.

  • "We're a small country with strong people," said Andreas Johansson, vice chairman of Svensk Armsport in an interview with Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.