Irene Ekelund
Irne Michelle Ekelund is a Swedish track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Sweden. OnJuly 2013 Ekelund won the gold medal at the World Youth Championships in Donetsk when she finished first in the 200 metres final. It was also the first gold medal for Sweden in a sprint event in a global championship ever.
Irene was born to a Swedish father and an Angolan mother during her fathers United Nationsservice in Pakistan. The family later moved back to Sweden and settled in Karlstad where she today lives with her mother and five siblings. She currently studies at the stylist program at her high school in her hometown, and competes for a club in the southern Swedish city of Malm, Malm Allmnna Idrottsfrening . Ekelund has several times stated that she is not very interested in athletics, and that she does not have any real idols in the sport.
Source: Wikipedia