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.[4] 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.[5]
Career
editEarly career
editIn 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 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.[6] At the 2013 World Youth Championships in July, he won gold in the boys' octathlon with 6451 points, a personal best.[7]
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.[8] His weakest performances in the decathlon were in the throwing events.[9]
In June 2014, Warholm set a Norwegian junior record in the 400 m with a time of 46.31 s.[10]
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.[11]
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.[12] 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.[13]
World championship title
editIn 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.[14] 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.[15]
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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.[16]
In March 2019, 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.[17] 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.[18] At the Müller Anniversary Games in July, Warholm improved on his 400 m hurdles time, taking it to 47.12 s.[19] 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.[20] 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.[21]
On 11 June 2020, 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.[22] 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.[23]
World records and Olympic title
editOn 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.[24]
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).[25] Warholm became the first European to win the event since Volker Beck in 1980.[26] 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.[27]
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;[28] he has criticized those spikes as "bullshit".[25][29]
"Karsten vs. Mondo"
editOn 4 September 2024, ahead of the Zurich Diamond League, Warholm competed in an exhibition 100m event against pole vault world record holder Mondo Duplantis. Duplantis won in a new personal best of 10.37 seconds, while Warholm finished a tenth of a second behind at 10.47 seconds, also in a personal best time.[30][31]
Career statistics
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- Information from World Athletics profile.[32]
Personal bests
edit| Surface | Event | Time | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outdoor | 100 m | 10.47 | 4 September 2024 | Zurich, Switzerland | Exhibition race[30] |
| 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
edit| Year | Championship | Venue | Position | Event | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | World Youth Championships | Donetsk, Ukraine | 1st | Octathlon | 6451 | |
| 15th | Medley relay | 1:56.92 | [33] | |||
| 2014 | World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 10th | Decathlon | 7551 | |
| 11th | 4×100 m relay | 40.62 | [34] | |||
| European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 31st | 400 m | 46.73 | [35] | |
| 2015 | European Team Championships | Cheboksary, Russia | 11th | 4×400 m relay | 3:10.65 | [36] |
| 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 | [37] | |||
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 10th | 400 m hurdles | 48.81 | [38] | |
| 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
edit- Diamond League champion 400 m hurdles (2):
2019, 2021.[39][40]
- (400 m hurdles wins, other events specified in parentheses)
National titles
edit- 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
As of November 2024, Warholm holds 17 track records set from June 2017 onwards. One of these records is for 300 metres (Bergen), one is for 400 metres (Florø) and the rest are for the 400 metres hurdles.
Personal life
editWarholm was born in the town of Ulsteinvik on Norway's western coast.[41]
He is in a relationship with Oda Djupvik.[41] He enjoys fishing, cars, and building Lego.[41]
References
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- ^ a b "Mondo Duplantis uses personal best to hold off Karsten Warholm in 100m sprint showdown".
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External links
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- 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)
