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Karsten Warholm (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈkɑʂtɛn ˈvɑrhɔ̂ɫm]; born 28 February 1996) is a Norwegian sprinter who competes in the 400 metres and 400 m hurdles. He’s the world record holder in latter event.

Karsten Warholm

Warholm at the 2017 Bislett Games
Personal information
Born	(1996-02-28) 28 February 1996 (age 26)[1] Ulsteinvik, Møre og Romsdal, Norway[1]
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Norway
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Hurdling, sprinting
Club	Dimna IL[2]
Coached by	Leif Olav Alnes
Achievements and titles
World finals	2017 London 400 m hurdles,  Gold 2019 Doha 400 m hurdles,  Gold
Olympic finals	2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m hurdles, 10th (sf) 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles,  Gold
Personal best(s)	400 m hurdles: 45.94 OR WR (Tokyo 2021) 300 m hurdles: 33.26 WB (Oslo 2021) 400 m: 44.87 NR (Florø 2017) Indoors 400 m: 45.05i =ER (Glasgow 2019)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing  Norway Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles World Championships 2017 London 400 m hurdles 2019 Doha 400 m hurdles Diamond League 2019 400 m hurdles 2021 400 m hurdles European Championships 2018 Berlin 400 m hurdles 2022 Munich 400 m hurdles European Indoor Championships 2019 Glasgow 400 m European U23 Championships 2017 Bydgoszcz 400 m hurdles 2017 Bydgoszcz 400 m European Junior Championships 2015 Eskilstuna 400 m 2015 Eskilstuna Decathlon World Youth Championships 2013 Donetsk Octathlon Representing Europe Continental Cup 2018 Ostrava 400 m hurdles

In July 2021, he broke the 29-year-old world record in 400 metres hurdles. The following month at the 2020 Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles with a time of 45.94 seconds, breaking his own world record by over three-quarters of a second.[3]

Warholm has also won gold in the event at the World Championships in 2017 and 2019, as well as the 2018 European Championships. He is a two-time 400m hurdles Diamond League champion. In 2021, he was voted World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year.

Career

Early career

In March 2013, Warholm won eight gold medals in the Norwegian Youth Indoors Championships.[2] In June at the 2013 Bislett Games, he competed in the 200 m. He finished seventh in his heat with a time of 22.25 s. Usain Bolt won a different heat at the same meet with a time of 19.79 s.[4] At the 2013 World Youth Championships in July, he won gold in the boys' octathlon with 6451 points, a personal best.[5]

In 2014, Warholm competed in the decathlon as well as in specialised events. At the time, his possible future specialization were the long jump, hurdling and 400 metres.[6] His weakest performances in the decathlon were in the throwing events.[7]

In June 2014, Warholm set a Norwegian junior record in the 400 m with a time of 46.31 s.[8]

In July 2015, he won silver in the 400 m at the 2015 European Junior Championships with a time of 46.50 s, 0.02 s behind Benjamin Lobo Vedel. He also won silver in the decathlon with 7764 points, a personal best.[9]

In July 2016, while participating in the semi-final of the 400 m hurdles at the 2016 European Championships, he broke the Norwegian national record with a time of 48.84 s.[10] He then finished sixth in the final, with a time of 49.82 s. In August, he made it to the semi-finals in the 400 m hurdles at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[11]

World champion title

In July 2017, he won gold in the 400 m hurdles at the 2017 European U23 Championships, setting a championship record of 48.37 s. He also won silver in the 400 m with a time of 45.75 s. In August, he won gold in the 400 m hurdles at the 2017 World Championships with a time of 48.35 s.[12] Two weeks after his success at the World Championships, he improved upon his own Norwegian record in the 400 m hurdles with a time of 48.22 s at the 2017 Weltklasse Zürich.[13]

At the 2018 European Championships Warholm won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles event with a time of 47.64 s, setting his new personal best and the new European U23 record.[14]

In March, Warholm won gold in the 400 m at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships. His time of 45.05 s equalled the European record set by Thomas Schönlebe in 1988.[15] In June, at the Oslo Bislett Games he broke the European men's 400 m hurdles record with a time of 47.33.[16] At the Müller Anniversary Games in July, Warholm improved on his 400 m hurdles time, taking it to 47.12 s.[17] At Weltklasse Zurich in August, Warholm set a new European record in the 400 m hurdles, with a time of 46.92, making him the third person to run under 47 seconds for the distance. He was chased to the finish line by Rai Benjamin, who became the fourth person to break 47 seconds, with a time of 46.98.[18] At the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, he won the 400 m hurdles in a time of 47.42 seconds, retaining his championship from 2017.[19]

On 11 June, Warholm competed in the Impossible Games in Bislett Stadion (Oslo, Norway). He ran the 300 metres hurdles with a world best time of 33.78, besting Chris Rawlinson's time of 34.48 set in 2002. He also ran 400 m indoors with a time of 45.97.[20] On 23 August in Stockholm, Warholm ran a personal best of 46.87, narrowly missing Kevin Young's world record of 46.78. With this performance, Warholm became the first person to break 47 seconds twice.[21]

World records and Olympic title

On 1 July 2021, in his first race of the season at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Warholm broke Kevin Young's 1992 world record with a time of 46.70 s.[22]

Warholm later broke his own record by 0.76 seconds in the 2020 Olympic Games, winning gold in a new world record of 45.94 s, an enormous 1.63% improvement on the previous record – the previous improvement of that magnitude was either David Hemery's 0.82 s improvement to 48.12 s in 1968 (1.68%, using fully automatic time), or Glenn Davis's 0.9 s improvement to 49.5 s in 1956 (1.79%, by official records including hand timing by the rules in place at the time).[23] Warholm became the first European to win the event since Volker Beck in 1980.[24] Warholm's time, the first sub-46 s time for the 400m hurdles, was faster than 18 runners in the men's 400m without hurdles.[25]

The silver medalist in the final, Rai Benjamin, also beat the old record, with a time of 46.17 s; the bronze medalist, Alison dos Santos, was 0.02 seconds short of the old world record with a time of 46.72 s, but joined the other two in bettering the old Olympic record of 46.78 s. Warholm broke the old record without using the new "super spikes" worn by many of his competitors;[26] Warholm has criticized those spikes as "bullshit".[23][27]

Career statistics

• Information from World Athletics profile.[28]

Personal bests

Surface	Event	Time	Date	Location	Notes
Outdoor	100 m	10.52	28 May 2016	Lillestrøm, Norway
	200 m	21.09 21.00 w	4 June 2016 12 June 2015	Florø, Norway Bærum, Norway	(wind-assisted)
	300 m	32.49	22 August 2018	Bergen, Norway	NB
	400 m	44.87	10 June 2017	Florø, Norway	NR
	300 m hurdles	33.26	4 June 2021	Oslo, Norway	World best
	400 m hurdles	45.94	3 August 2021	Tokyo, Japan	World record
Indoor	60 m	6.75	28 January 2017	Florø, Norway
	100 m	10.49	28 January 2017	Florø, Norway
	200 m	20.91	5 February 2017	Ulsteinvik, Norway
	400 m	45.05	2 March 2019	Glasgow, Scotland	=European record
	300 m hurdles	34.26	10 February 2018	Tampere, Finland	OT WB

International championship results

Representing  Norway and Europe (Continental Cup only)

Year	Championship	Position	Event	Time/ Points	Venue	Notes
2013	World Youth Championships	1st	Octathlon	6451	Donetsk, Ukraine
		15th	Medley relay	1:56.92		[29]
2014	World Junior Championships	10th	Decathlon	7551	Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
		11th	4×100 m relay	40.62		[30]
	European Championships	31st	400 m	46.73	Zürich, Switzerland	[31]
2015	European Team Championships	11th	4×400 m relay	3:10.65	Cheboksary, Russia	[32]
	European Junior Championships	2nd	400 m	46.50	Eskilstuna, Sweden
		2nd	Decathlon	7764
2016	European Championships	6th	400 m hurdles	49.82	Amsterdam, Netherlands
		16th	4×400 m relay	3:10.76		[33]
	Olympic Games	10th	400 m hurdles	48.81	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	[34]
2017	European U23 Championships	2nd	400 m	45.75	Bydgoszcz, Poland
		1st	400 m hurdles	48.37	Bydgoszcz, Poland
	World Championships	1st	400 m hurdles	48.35	London, England
2018	European Championships	1st	400 m hurdles	47.64	Berlin, Germany
		8th	400 m	46.68
	Continental Cup	3rd	400 m hurdles	48.56	Ostrava, Czech Republic
2019	European Indoor Championships	1st	400 m	45.05	Glasgow, Scotland
	World Championships	1st	400 m hurdles	47.42	Doha, Qatar
2021	Olympic Games	1st	400 m hurdles	45.94	Tokyo, Japan	WR
2022	World Championships	7th	400 m hurdles	48.42	Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
	European Championships	1st	400 m hurdles	47.12	Munich, Germany	CR

Circuit wins and titles

• Diamond League champion 400 m hurdles (2): 2019, 2021.[35][36]

(400 m hurdles wins, other events specified in parenthesis)

• 2017 (2): Oslo, Stockholm
• 2018 (1): London
• 2019 (5): Stockholm, Oslo, London, Paris, Zürich
• 2020 [4]: Monaco, Stockholm (400 m & 400 m hurdles), Rome
• 2021 (3): Oslo, Monaco, Zürich

Personal life

Warholm was born in the town of Ulsteinvik on Norway's western coast.[37]

Warholm is in a relationship with girlfriend Oda Djupvik.[37] He enjoys fishing, cars, and building Lego.[37]

References

External links

• Karsten Warholm at World Athletics
• Karsten Warholm at Diamond League
• Karsten Warholm at European Athletics
• Karsten Warholm at Olympics.com
• Karsten Warholm at Olympedia
• Karsten Warholm at Team Norway (in Norwegian)

Records
Preceded by Stéphane Diagana	Men's 400 m Hurdles European Record Holder 13 June 2019 –	Succeeded by Incumbent
Preceded by Kevin Young	Men's 400 m Hurdles World Record Holder 1 July 2021 –	Succeeded by Incumbent
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Max Heß	Men's European Athletics Rising Star of the Year 2017	Succeeded by Armand Duplantis Jakob Ingebrigtsen
Preceded by Ada Hegerberg Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year 2017 2019	Succeeded by Jakob Ingebrigtsen Erling Haaland
Preceded by Eliud Kipchoge	Men's Track & Field News Athlete of the Year 2019	Succeeded by Armand Duplantis

На других языках

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[de] Karsten Warholm

Karsten Warholm (* 28. Februar 1996 in Ulsteinvik) ist ein norwegischer Leichtathlet, der sich auf den 400-Meter-Hürdenlauf spezialisiert hat. Er ist in dieser Disziplin zweifacher Weltmeister (2017, 2019), Olympiasieger (2021) und hält seit dem 1. Juli 2021 den Weltrekord, den er am 3. August 2021 nochmals verbesserte.

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- [en] Karsten Warholm

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[es] Karsten Warholm

Karsten Warholm (Ulsteinvik, 28 de febrero de 1996) es un deportista noruego que compite en atletismo, especialista en las carreras de vallas.[1]

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[fr] Karsten Warholm

Karsten Warholm (né le 28 février 1996 à Ulsteinvik) est un athlète norvégien, spécialiste du 400 mètres et du 400 mètres haies.

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[it] Karsten Warholm

Karsten Warholm (Ulsteinvik, 28 febbraio 1996) è un ostacolista, velocista e multiplista norvegese, campione olimpico dei 400 metri ostacoli a Tokyo 2020 e detentore del record mondiale della specialità con il tempo di 45"94.

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[ru] Вархольм, Карстен

Карстен Вархольм (англ. Karsten Warholm; род. 28 февраля 1996[1], Ульстейнвик, Мёре-ог-Ромсдал[1]) — норвежский легкоатлет, специализирующийся в беге на 400 метров с барьерами и гладкой дистанции 400 метров. Олимпийский чемпион 2020 года, двукратный чемпион мира (2017, 2019), двукратный чемпион Европы (2018 и 2022) в беге на 400 метров с барьерами. Девятикратный чемпион Норвегии.

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