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Karsten Warholm
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Warholm at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul
Personal information
Born (1996-02-28) 28 February 1996 (age 28)
Ulsteinvik, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Height 1.87 m
Weight 78 kg
Sport
Country Norway
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Hurdling, sprinting
Club Dimna IL
Coached by Leif Olav Alnes
Achievements and titles
World finals
  • 2017 London
  • 400 m hurdles, 11 Gold
  • 2019 Doha
  • 400 m hurdles, 11 Gold
  • 2023 Budapest
  • 400 m hurdles, 11 Gold
Olympic finals
  • 2016 Rio de Janeiro
  • 400 m hurdles, 10th (sf)
  • 2020 Tokyo
  • 400 m hurdles, 11 Gold
  • 2024 Paris
  • 400 m hurdles, 22 Silver
Highest world ranking 1st (400 m hurdles, 2023)
Personal best(s)
  • 400 m hurdles: 45.94 OR WR (Tokyo 2021)
  • 300 m hurdles: 33.26 WB (Oslo 2021)
  • 400 m: 44.87 (Florø 2017)
  • Indoors
  • 400 m: 45.05i =AR (Glasgow 2019)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Norway
Olympic Games
Gold 2020 Tokyo 400 m hurdles
Silver 2024 Paris 400 m hurdles
World Championships
Gold 2017 London 400 m hurdles
Gold 2019 Doha 400 m hurdles
Gold 2023 Budapest 400 m hurdles
World Indoor Championships
Silver 2024 Glasgow 400 metres
Diamond League
2019 400 m hurdles
2021 400 m hurdles
European Championships
Gold 2018 Berlin 400 m hurdles
Gold 2022 Munich 400 m hurdles
Gold 2024 Rome 400 m hurdles
European Indoor Championships
Gold 2019 Glasgow 400 m
Gold 2023 Istanbul 400 m
European U23 Championships
Gold 2017 Bydgoszcz 400 m hurdles
Silver 2017 Bydgoszcz 400 m
European Junior Championships
Silver 2015 Eskilstuna 400 m
Silver 2015 Eskilstuna Decathlon
World Youth Championships
Gold 2013 Donetsk Octathlon
Representing Europe Europe
Continental Cup
Bronze 2018 Ostrava 400 m hurdles

Karsten Warholm (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈkɑʂtɛn ˈvɑ:rhɔ̂ɫm]; born 28 February 1996) is a Norwegian sprinter who competes in the 400 metres and 400 m hurdles. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion, silver medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, three-time world champion and world record holder in the latter event.

Warholm has won gold for the 400 m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in 2017, 2019 and 2023, as well as the 2018, 2022, and 2024 European Athletics Championships. He is the first athlete ever to win three 400 m hurdles events at the World Championships. Warholm is a two-time Diamond League 400 m hurdles champion. In 2021, he was voted World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year.

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

Career

Early career

In March 2013, Warholm won eight gold medals in the Norwegian Youth Indoors Championships. In June at the 2013 Bislett Games, he competed in the 200 metres, finishing 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. At the 2013 World Youth Championships in July, he won gold in the boys' octathlon with 6451 points, a personal best.

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. His weakest performances in the decathlon were in the throwing events.

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

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.

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. 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 Rio Olympics.

World championship title

In July 2017, Warholm won gold in the 400 m hurdles at the 2017 European U23 Championships, setting a championship record of 48.37 s. He also claimed silver in the 400 m with a time of 45.75 s. In August, he took gold in the 400 m hurdles at the 2017 World Championships with a time of 48.35 s. 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 Weltklasse Zürich.

Karsten Warholm 2018 European Athletics Championships Day 4 (34) (cropped)
Warholm hurdles at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin

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

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. In June at the Bislett Games in Oslo, he broke the European men's 400 m hurdles record with a time of 47.33 s. At the Müller Anniversary Games in July, Warholm improved on his 400 m hurdles time, taking it to 47.12 s. At the Weltklasse Zürich in August, Warholm set a new European record in the event, with a time of 46.92 s, 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 s. 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 title from 2017.

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

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.

Warholm later broke his own record by 0.76 seconds at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 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). Warholm became the first European to win the event since Volker Beck in 1980. Warholm's time, the first sub-46 s time for the 400 m hurdles, was faster than 18 runners in the men's 400 m without hurdles.

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.

Career statistics

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Warholm at the Bislett Games in Oslo in 2017
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Karsten Warholm en route to his gold medal at the 2019 World Championships held in Doha
Men's 400m final at Istanbul 2023
Warholm narrowly won the 400 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul

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, United Kingdom =European record
300 m hurdles 34.26 10 February 2018 Tampere, Finland OT WB

International championship results

Representing  Norwayand EuropeEurope (Continental Cup only)

Year Championship Venue Position Event Result Notes
2013 World Youth Championships Donetsk, Ukraine 1st Octathlon 6451
15th Medley relay 1:56.92
2014 World Junior Championships Eugene, United States 10th Decathlon 7551
11th 4×100 m relay 40.62
European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 31st 400 m 46.73
2015 European Team Championships Cheboksary, Russia 11th 4×400 m relay 3:10.65
European Junior Championships Eskilstuna, Sweden 2nd 400 m 46.50
2nd Decathlon 7764
2016 European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 6th 400 m hurdles 49.82
16th 4×400 m relay 3:10.76
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 10th 400 m hurdles 48.81
2017 European U23 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 2nd 400 m 45.75
1st 400 m hurdles 48.37
World Championships London, United Kingdom 1st 400 m hurdles 48.35
2018 European Championships Berlin, Germany 1st 400 m hurdles 47.64
8th 400 m 46.68
Continental Cup Ostrava, Czech Republic 3rd 400 m hurdles 48.56
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 400 m 45.05
World Championships Doha, Qatar 1st 400 m hurdles 47.42
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 1st 400 m hurdles 45.94 WR
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States 7th 400 m hurdles 48.42
European Championships Munich, Germany 1st 400 m hurdles 47.12 CR
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 400 m 45.35
World Championships Budapest, Hundary 1st 400 m hurdles 46.89
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 2nd 400 m 45.34
European Championships Rome, Italy 1st 400 m hurdles 46.98 CR
Olympic Games Paris, France 2nd 400 m hurdles 47.06

Circuit wins and titles

  • Diamond League champion 400 m hurdles (2): Diamond blue.svg 2019, Diamond blue.svg 2021.
(400 m hurdles wins, other events specified in parentheses)
  • 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
  • 2023 (3): Oslo, Stockholm, Monaco
  • World Athletics Continental Tour
(400 m hurdles wins, other events specified in parentheses)
  • 2020: Ostrava

National titles

  • Norwegian Championships (15)
    • 110 m hurdles: 2013, 2014
    • 400 m: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
    • 400 m hurdles: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
  • Norwegian Indoor Championships (11)
    • 60 m hurdles: 2014, 2015,
    • 200 m: 2015, 2016, 2017
    • 400 m: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
    • Long jump: 2016

Personal life

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

He is in a relationship with Oda Djupvik. He enjoys fishing, cars, and building Lego.

See also

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