Ida Marcussen

Ida Marcussen
Ida Marcussen 2007
nation	Norway
birthday	1st November 1987 (age 32)
place of birth	Kristiansand , Norway
size	173 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Heptathlon , pentathlon
Best performance	6226 points 4316 points
Trainer	Lukas Udelhoven
status	active
Medal table
Universiade 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Universiade silver Gwangju 2015 Heptathlon  Junior World Championships silver Beijing 2006 Heptathlon
last change: April 10, 2017

Ida Marcussen (born November 1, 1987 in Kristiansand ) is a Norwegian heptathlete .

Life

Marcussen won the national junior heptathlon championship in 2004. In 2005 she took part in the Junior European Championships, where she was sixth. In 2006 she won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships. At the World Athletics Championships in Osaka in 2007 , after taking part in the professional class for the first time, she finished 11th. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , she reached 21st place. A year later she started again at the U23 European Championships in Kaunas , where she came in seventh place. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 , she came in 25th after the first good interim results. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , she finished 28th. As a guest starter at the German World Cup qualification 2013 in Ratingen , she finished the heptathlon in fourth place with the third best result of her career and a total of 6140 points. At the World Championships in Moscow he was 18th with 5996 points, as was the European Championships in Zurich in 2014.

In 2015 she won the silver medal behind the German Anna Maiwald at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea . She finished the World Championships in Beijing in 25th place.

Marcussen was initially a handball player, but was discovered for athletics by Elke G. Udelhoven. Since 2004 she has been trained by Lukas Udelhoven.

Top performances

open air

• 100 meters: 12.15 s on August 19, 2005 in Bergen
• 200 meters: 24.57 s on January 1, 2006 in Bergen
• 800 meters: 2: 09.74 min, June 16, 2013 in Ratingen
• 100 meter hurdles: 13.96 s, August 29, 2011 in Daegu
• High jump : 1.74 m, July 30, 2010 in Barcelona
• Long jump : 6.47 m, August 26, 2007 in Osaka
• Triple jump : 11.9 m, August 19, 2005 in Bergen
• Shot put : 13.96 meters, May 30, 2008, Götzis
• Javelin throw : 52.95 m, June 1st, 2008 in Götzis
• Heptathlon : 6226 points, August 26, 2007 in Osaka

Hall

• 60 meter hurdles: 8.72 s, March 4, 2011 in Paris
• Long jump: 5.92 meters, February 16, 2010, Vienna
• Pentathlon : 4316 points, March 11, 2012 in Gothenburg

Web links

Commons : Ida Marcussen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ida Marcussen in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ida Marcussen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )