FACTBOX - Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft

REUTERS - Factbox on Sweden's Olympic heptathlon champion Carolina Kluft, who on Wednesday said she would not be defending her title at the Beijing Olympics in August because she no longer felt "the same hunger" for the discipline.

The 25-year-old intends to compete in the long jump and triple jump in Beijing.

* Kluft, the winner of 19 heptathlon events in a row, has not been defeated since 2001.

* She won gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and was crowned world champion three consecutive times in 2003, 2005, and 2007.

* Kluft won the 2002 and 2006 European championships, and was twice European indoor champion in 2005 and 2007.

* She was 20 years old when she became only the third woman to break the 7,000 points barrier at the 2003 world championships in Paris.

* At the 2007 world championships in Osaka, Kluft beat the 18-year-old European heptathlon record set by Russia's Larisa Nikitina with 7,032 points. This puts her in second place behind world record holder Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who obtained 7,291 points at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

* Kluft is the daughter of a former Osters IF striker Johnny, who is now her manager, and former long-jumper Ingalill.

* In 2007, she married Swedish pole vaulter Patrik Kristiansson, who took on her surname.

* Kluft pulled out of world indoor championships in Valencia in March 2008 due to a thigh injury.