High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stefan Christian Holm (born May 25, 1976) is a retired Swedish high jumper. He has won an Olympic gold medal, a silver one in the World Championships, and one silver and one bronze medal in the European Championships. His personal record in high jump is 2.37 m (outdoors 2008) and 2.40 m (indoors 2005). Holm was born in Forshaga, the son of father Johnny and mother Elisabeth. He has a sister named Veronica who is three years older than he. Holm married Anna in 2005 and they have a son, Melwin, born in 2004. Holm's big breakthrough onto the world athletics scene came in 2000, when he finished 4th at the Sydney Olympics with a leap of 2.32 m. Although only 24 years old at the time, Holm had been high jumping for over half of his life.