Karsten Warholm

Karsten Warholm
Karsten Warholm at the Bislett Games 2017
nation	Norway
date of birth	28th February 1996 (age 25)
place of birth	Ulsteinvik , Norway
size	187 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	45.94 s
society	Dimna Idrettslag
Trainer	Leif Olav Alnes
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U23 European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 2 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles  World championships gold London 2017 400 m hurdles gold Doha 2019 400 m hurdles  European championships gold Berlin 2018 400 m hurdles  European Indoor Championships gold Glasgow 2019 400 m  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2017 400 m hurdles silver Bydgoszcz 2017 400 m  U20 European Championships silver Eskilstuna 2015 400 m silver Eskilstuna 2015 Decathlon  U18 world championships gold Donetsk 2013 Eight fight
last change: August 3, 2021

Karsten Warholm (born February 28, 1996 in Ulsteinvik ) is a Norwegian athlete who specializes in the 400 meter hurdles . He is two-time world champion (2017, 2019), Olympic champion (2021) and has held the world record since July 1, 2021, which he improved again on August 3, 2021.

Athletic career

Karsten Warholm gained his first international experience at the World Youth Championships 2013 in Donetsk , where he won the gold medal in the eight-fight. A year later he finished tenth in the decathlon at the Junior World Championships in Eugene . In 2015 he won the silver medals in the decathlon and in the 400-meter run at the European Junior Championships in Eskilstuna . In 2016 he qualified in the 400-meter hurdles for the European Championships in Amsterdam , where he finished sixth in the final. He also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and made it to the semifinals there .

In 2017 he won the gold medal in the hurdles and silver over the flat distance at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland . It took him 48.37 s for the hurdles, setting a new national record and a championship record. He also qualified for the World Championships in London , where he surprisingly won the gold medal with 48.35 s. At the end of the season he improved his own national record to 48.22 seconds at the IAAF Diamond League final in Zurich .

In January 2018, Warholm also ran a new national record of 45.88 s over 400 meters in Ulsteinvik and thus qualified for the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow . On May 31, 2018, he again succeeded in improving the national record for the 400 meter hurdles in Rome . With 47.82 s he was second behind Abderrahman Samba in the Diamond League race .

At the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in early March , Warholm equalized Thomas Schönlebe's European record as the winner over 400 meters in 45.05 s . In June, at the Bislett Games in Oslo, he completed the 400 meter hurdles in 47.33 s , beating the previous European record set by Frenchman Stéphane Diagana in 1995 by four hundredths of a second. He improved this again on August 29 at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich to 46.92 s, the second fastest time ever.

In 2020 Warholm started the Bislett Games, which were held as Impossible Games because of the COVID-19 pandemic, without opponents in the 300 meter hurdles and covered the distance in 33.78 s, setting the European record set by the British Chris Rawlinson in the year Undercut in 2002 by seven hundredths of a second. At the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on August 23, 2020, he again improved the European record with 46.87 seconds and at the same time ran the second fastest time ever.

On July 1, 2021, at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo, Warholm beat the world record set by Kevin Young at the 1992 Olympic Games by eight hundredths of a second with a time of 46.70 seconds over 400 meters . On August 3, 2021, he won the final of the 400 meter hurdles of the 2020 Olympic Games with a new world record time of 45.94 s.

Honors

Warholm was named “Athlete of the Year” in Norway in 2017, as well as “ Sportsman of the Year ”, where he was chosen as the winner in both the athletes' and the public's polls.

Personal

Warholm grew up on the island of Dimnøya , also called Dimna, about 2 km south of the center of Ulsteinvik, with his parents Kristine Haddal and Mikal Warholm. There he attended the Hasund school and joined the sports club Dimna IL. He is in a relationship with the Norwegian Oda Djupvik. Warholms mother is also his manager.

Top performances

(As of August 3, 2021)

Hall

• 60 meters: 6.75 s, January 28, 2017, Florø
• 100 meters: 10.49 s, January 28, 2017, Florø
• 200 meters: 20.91 s, February 5, 2017, Ulsteinvik
• 300 meters: 32.47 s, February 28, 2021, Bærum ( Norwegian record )
• 400 meters: 45.05 s, March 2, 2019, Glasgow ( European record )
• 4 × 200 meters: 1: 24.59 min, February 13, 2016 in Växjö ( Norwegian record )

open air

• 100 meters: 10.52 s, May 28, 2016, Lillestrøm
• 400 meters: 44.87 s, June 10, 2017, Florø ( Norwegian record )
• 300 m hurdles: 33.26 s, June 4, 2021, Oslo ( world record )
• 400 m hurdles: 45.94 s, August 3, 2021, Tokyo ( world record )
• Long jump: 7.66 m, June 28, 2015, Mannheim
• Eight fight: 6451 points, July 11, 2013, Donetsk
• Decathlon (Juniors): 7764 points, July 19, 2015, Eskilstuna

Web links

Commons : Karsten Warholm  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Karsten Warholm in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Steve Landells: My greatest challenge - Karsten Warholm ( English ) IAAF. November 27, 2017. Retrieved January 28, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list of the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna 2015
2. ^ Result list of the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz 2017
3. ↑ Norwegian Warholm celebrates hurdle gold
4. ↑ Glasgow Day 2 - Karsten Warholm equalizes European record. In: Leichtathletik.de. March 2, 2019, accessed June 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Karsten Warholm med ny europeisk record. In: dagbladet.no. June 13, 2019, Retrieved June 13, 2019 (Norwegian). 
6. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: World best time - Karsten Warholm also cannot be stopped by Corona , "Impossible Games" Oslo, on: Leichtathletik.de, June 11, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020
7. ↑ Oslo: Karsten Warholm breaks Kevin Young's world record over 400 meter hurdles. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved July 1, 2021 . 
8. ↑ Tokyo 2020: Olympic Stadium - Track - 3 Aug - 12:20 - Official .
9. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Flash News of the Day - Karsten Warholm is Norway's “Athlete of the Year” 2017 ( Memento from November 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Notes, November 7, 2017, accessed November 7, 2017
10. ↑ Pamela Ruprecht / Antonia Kros: Flash News of the Day - Karsten Warholm is "Sportsman of the Year" in Norway  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Notes, January 8, 2018, accessed January 12, 2018  
11. ↑ ^{a b} Ole-Ottar Karlsen Høgstavoll / Vikebladet: (+) Mamma and manager Kristine etter OL-gullet: - Heilt ubeskriveleg. In: rbnett.no. August 3, 2021, accessed August 3, 2021 (Norwegian (Bokmål)). 
12. ↑ article: author: I dag er vi alle dimningar. In: smp.no. August 3, 2021, accessed August 3, 2021 (Norwegian (Nynorsk)). 
13. ↑ Who is the record-smashing Norwegian hurdler Karsten Warholm? In: The Independent. August 3, 2021, accessed August 3, 2021 . 
14. ↑ TV 2 As: Karsten Warholm and kjæresten bor ikke sammen - dette er green. In: TV December 2 , 2020, accessed August 3, 2021 (Norwegian).