Josefine Tomine Eriksen

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Josefine Tomine Eriksen Aks
Personal information
Born (2000-08-16) 16 August 2000 (age 25)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event 400 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best400m: 52.28 (2025)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
European Youth Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Tbilisi 400 m

Josefine Tomine Eriksen Aks (born 16 August 2000) is a Norwegian sprinter. She competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. [1]

Career

She is from Stavern and won a bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships in Tbilisi at the age of 15 years-old and at that age made her debut at the Bislett Games. [2] She later studied and competed in the United States at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and from 2022, the University of Utah. [3]

A member of the Norwegian team at the at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas, [3] she also competed in the relay for Norway at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024. [4] [2] That month, she was runner-up to Henriette Jaeger over 400 metres at the Norwegian Championships in Sandnes. [5] [2] She competed as part of the Norwegian team at the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France in August 2924, in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay. [6]

She helped the Norwegian women's 4 x 400 metres relay team set a new national record in finishing fourth overall at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China. [7] She was a member of the Norwegian 4 x 400 metres team which qualified for the final at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing sixth overall. [8]

References

  1. "Josefine Tomine Eriksen". World Athletics. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Norway's unknown "relay rocket" was close to giving up: - Should have asked for help much earlier". nrk.no. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Fresh off qualifying for the Olympics, Josefine Eriksen leads Utes into NCAA track championships". Deseret. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  4. "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  5. "Norwegian Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 27 June 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  6. "How Utah runner Josefine Eriksen fared in the Olympic women's 4x400-meter relay". Deseret.com. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  7. "USA, Spain and South Africa claim 4x400m titles in Guangzhou". World Athletics. 11 May 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
  8. "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 20 September 2025. Retrieved 20 September 2025.