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Born | 22 July 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best | Long jump: 6.74 m (2024) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ida Andrea Breigan (born 22 July 2004) is a Norwegian long jumper. She is the Norwegian national indoor record holder. [1]
She is from Fredrikstad. Her father, Bo Breigan, was a Norwegian 800 metres champion and her mother, Mimi Storm-Hansen, was a Norwegian high jump champion. [2]
After high school she studied at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the United States, where she was coached by former World Championship silver medalist Kareem Streete-Thompson. [3] She became Norwegian champion both indoors and outdoors in 2023. [3] In February 2024, she broke Berit Berthelsen's 57-year-old Norwegian record for the indoor long jump whilst competing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and improved her own record to 6.58 metres two weeks later in Birmingham, Alabama. [4] [5] [6]
She was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor in June 2025, finishing second overall with a jump of 6.60 metres. [7] She was selected to represent her country at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, winning the bronze medal with a jump of 6.58 metres. [8] [9]