In 2004, Holm won the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a jump of 2.36 and was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.

[4] Holm finished 4th at the 2008 Summer Olympics with a leap of 2.32 m. On 13 September 2008 he announced his retirement from the sport.

As his main rival Patrik Sjöberg had a knee injury, Holm agreed to jump off his wrong foot to even the score.

He beat Sjöberg in the wrong-footed faceoff and went back to his normal takeoff to jump 2.15 m for third behind Ukhov and Donald Thomas.

The longest ancestry tracing in the series' history was successfully made, covering 29 generations and 1,000 years back to the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung.