Annette Tannander (Bank) (2026) - CU Athletic Hall of Fame

Annette Tannander (Bank)

Induction:
2026
Class:
1983

Lettered four times under coaches Tracy Sundlun, Kathy Jackson and Gordon Fox (1979, 1981-83); she returned to her native Sweden after her freshman year to prepare for the 1980 Olympics (she was injured and missed out on qualifying); she returned to Boulder for the Fall 1980 semester, but wound up redshirting after she ruptured an Achilles tendon … She was a two-time All-American in the heptathlon as a junior and senior (1982, 1983), an All-American in the long jump as a junior in 1982 … In placing second at the NCAA championships in the heptathlon in ’82, she scored a school record 5,662 points; in finishing fourth in the NCAA’s in ’83, she broke her own record with 5,863 points … Her leap of 20-feet, 1-inch in the ’82 AIAW indoor meet was also a school record and good for fourth place … She set three school indoor records, the long jump (20-5), pentathlon (4,071 points) and high jump (5-11); the pentathlon mark held for 39 years (still second) and the high jump measure sixth … Outdoors, she established four records: heptathlon (5,863 points), long jump (6.30m), high jump (5-11½) and javelin (151-5); the heptathlon mark stood for 41 years and the long jump mark for 40, the high jump leap remains second and the javelin figure fourth … In the Big Eight Championships at Stillwater, she dominated the heptathlon, winning five events (100-meter hurdles, 800-meter run, high jump, long jump and javelin) while finishing second in the other two: the 200-meter dash and shot put (the 5,863 points was a stadium record and she won by nearly 300 points) … She won seven Big Eight championships in all: three indoor (high jump and long jump in 1979, pentathlon in 1993) and four outdoor (high jump and long jump in 1979, heptathlon in 1982 and 1983) … A member of the Swedish National Team for 14 years, she established and then broke several Swedish records many times, most notably in the high jump and heptathlon … She competed in two Olympics for her native Sweden: placing seventh in the high jump (a Nordic record 6-1¾) in Montreal in 1976; and in Los Angeles in 1984, she was 14th in the heptathlon (5,908 points) as well as in the long jump (6.16 meters) … She also competed in the first Track & Field World Championships in Helsinki, Finland in 1983, placing ninth in the heptathlon (5,977 points, a Nordic record), where she beat the American record holder, Jackie Joyner-Kersee … She entered coaching at the end of her own athletic career, first working as an assistant coach at CU under the late Jerry Quiller 1988-91) … She served three years as the head track & field coach at the Alexander Dawson School and has been an assistant coach at Monarch High School for the last 20 years (2006-present) … Was a personal trainer at Rally Sport for 38 years (1986-2024) … She co-authored the book, A Complete Idiots Guide to Fitness … In 1980, she had an acting role in the movie, Golden Girl, playing Ursula Krull, the East German favorite to win the 100-, 200- and 400-meters in the Moscow Olympics (she was “beaten” by the Golden Girl, played by Susan Anton) … Graduated with a degree in Education (K-12 emphasis) in 1985 … She is the mother of two grown children, , Tobias and Kajsa and the grandmother of one (Leja) … She was born on Feb. 13, 1958, in Malmo, Sweden.