Sondre Guttormsen
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Nationality | Norwegian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1999-06-01) 1 June 1999 (age 25) Davis, California, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relative | Simen Guttormsen (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Princeton Tigers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SK Vidar (2019–) Ski IL (–2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sondre Guttormsen (born 1 June 1999)[1] is a Norwegian athlete specialising in the pole vault. He won the gold medal at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. Guttormsen earned bronze at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships.
He was the pole vault bronze medallist at the 2016 European U18 Championships. He is a three-time NCAA champion and a four-time Norwegian national champion.
Early life
Sondre Guttormsen was born the oldest of four children in Davis, California to Kristin and Atle Guttormsen. His father, a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, was studying for an economics Ph.D. at UC Davis. The family then returned to Ski, Norway.[2][3]
Career
Guttormsen competed for the University of California, Los Angeles in his first year of college and then transferred to Princeton University in 2020.[3]
At the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the vaulter suffered a quad injury on his first attempt at 5.65 metres and did not qualify for the final.[1][2]
With his 2022 NCAA Indoors title, Guttormsen became the first indoor NCAA individual champion for Princeton since 2002.[3]
On 5 March 2023, the 23-year-old won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey, the biggest success of his career up to that point. A few days later, he became only the ninth European to clear the six metre-mark indoors, set Norwegian outright record and equalled the collegiate record when winning his third NCAA title at the NCAA Division I Indoor T&F Championships.[4][5]
Statistics
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Personal bests
- Pole vault – 5.86 m (19 ft 2+1⁄2 in) (Zürich 2022) =NR
- Pole vault indoor – 6.00 m (19 ft 8 in) (Albuquerque, NM 2023) NR
International competitions
NCAA titles
- NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships
- NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships
National titles
- Norwegian Athletics Championships
- Pole Vault: 2018, 2019, 2020
- Norwegian Indoor Athletics Championships
- 60 metres hurdles: 2017
References
- ^ a b "Sondre GUTTORMSEN – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Sondre Guttormsen - Men's Track and Field". Princeton Tigers. Princeton University. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ a b c Feil, Justin (6 April 2022). "Making Unique Journey from Norway to PU Track Team, Guttormsen Flies to NCAA Indoor Men's Pole Vault Title | Town Topics". Town Topics. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ Mills, Steven (13 March 2023). "Guttormsen soars over 6.00m at the NCAA Indoor Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
- ^ "Sondre Guttormsen Wins NCAA Indoor Pole Vault Championship Clearing 6.00m to Tie Collegiate Record". Princeton Tigers. Princeton University. 11 March 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
External links
- Sondre Guttormsen at World Athletics
- Sondre Guttormsen at European Athletics
- Sondre Guttormsen at Olympics.com
- Sondre Guttormsen at Olympedia
- Sondre Guttormsen at Team Norway (in Norwegian)
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- 1966:
Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS)
- 1967:
Igor Feld (URS)
- 1968:
Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)
- 1969:
Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)
- 1970:
François Tracanelli (FRA)
- 1971:
Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)
- 1972:
Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)
- 1973:
Renato Dionisi (ITA)
- 1974:
Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL)
- 1975:
Antti Kalliomäki (FIN)
- 1976:
Yuriy Prokhorenko (URS)
- 1977:
Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL)
- 1978:
Tadeusz Ślusarski (POL)
- 1979:
Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL)
- 1980:
Konstantin Volkov (URS)
- 1981:
Thierry Vigneron (FRA)
- 1982:
Viktor Spasov (URS)
- 1983:
Sergey Bubka (URS)
- 1984:
Sergey Bubka (URS)
- 1984:
Sergey Bubka (URS)
- 1985:
Sergey Bubka (URS)
- 1986:
Atanas Tarev (BUL)
- 1987:
Thierry Vigneron (FRA)
- 1988:
Radion Gataullin (URS)
- 1989:
Grigoriy Yegorov (URS)
- 1990:
Radion Gataullin (URS)
- 1992:
Pyotr Bochkaryov (EUN/RUS)
- 1994:
Pyotr Bochkaryov (EUN/RUS)
- 1996:
Dmitri Markov (BLR)
- 1998:
Tim Lobinger (GER)
- 2000:
Aleksandr Averbukh (ISR)
- 2002:
Tim Lobinger (GER)
- 2005:
Igor Pavlov (RUS)
- 2007:
Danny Ecker (GER)
- 2009:
Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
- 2011:
Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
- 2013:
Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
- 2015:
Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
- 2017:
Piotr Lisek (POL)
- 2019:
Paweł Wojciechowski (POL)
- 2021:
Armand Duplantis (SWE)
- 2023:
Sondre Guttormsen (NOR)