Trine Hattestad

Trine Hattestad
nation	Norway
birthday	18th April 1966 (age 54)
place of birth	Lørenskog , Norway
size	173 cm
Weight	76 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	72.12 m
society	IF Minerva
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Atlanta 1996 Javelin throw gold Sydney 2000 Javelin throw  World championships gold Stuttgart 1993 Javelin throw gold Athens 1997 Javelin throw bronze Seville 1999 Javelin throw European championships gold Helsinki 1994 Javelin throw

Trine Hattestad (born Elsa Katrine Solberg ; born April 18, 1966 in Lørenskog ) is a former Norwegian javelin thrower and Olympic champion .

biography

In her youth, Hattestad was a very good handball player , but then switched to throwing a javelin. Hattestad had her international debut in 1981 at the European Junior Championships, where she was fifth.

The really big successes came at the beginning of the 1990s. At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart she won gold, as well as at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1994 . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, she won the bronze medal. The following year she defended titles at the World Championships in Athens . At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, she won bronze.

2000 was her most successful year: on June 28, she set a world record in Bergen ; she threw the spear 69.48 m. A year later, Cuban Osleidys Menéndez exceeded this width by two meters. At the Olympic Games in Sydney , she won the javelin competition and thus crowned her successful sports career. In the same year she won the election for European Athlete of the Year , Norway's Sportswoman of the Year , the Aftenposten gold medal and the Fearnleys olympiske ærespris .

She has four children with Anders Hattestad, whom she divorced in 2017.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Jessica Ennis is Europe's Athlete of the Year , www.leichtathletik.de October 4, 2012