Career
With 2.42 metres (7 ft 113 in), he holds the Swedish as well as the European record in men"s high jump. Sjöberg is also a two-time world indoor record holder with marks of 2.38 m (1985) and 2.41 m (1987). Two silver medals from Los Angeles 1984 and Barcelona 1992 and one bronze medal from Seuol 1988.
He has inspired many later Swedish high jumpers, most notably Kajsa Bergqvist, Linus Thörnblad, Staffan Strand, and Stefan Holm.
His world record of 2.42 m was broken one year later, when, on the eve of the Seoul Summer Olympics, Javier Sotomayor jumped 2.43 m in September 1988 at a meet in Spain. In his 2011 autobiography, Sjöberg revealed that he had been sexually molested as a child by Viljo Nousiainen, a prominent Swedish athletics coach.
Sjöberg recently competed as a celebrity dancer on Let"s Dance 2014 in which he made it to the top 4.