Sondre Guttormsen

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Sondre Guttormsen
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Guttormsen in 2020
Personal information
NationalityNorwegian
Born (1999-06-01) 1 June 1999 (age 26)
Davis, California, U.S.
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Relative Simen Guttormsen (brother)
Sport
Country Norway
Sport Track and field
Event Pole vault
College team Princeton Tigers
Club SK Vidar (2019–)
Ski IL (–2018)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Istanbul Pole vault
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Apeldoorn Pole vault
European U23 Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Tallinn Pole vault
European U18 Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Tbilisi Pole vault

Sondre Guttormsen (born 1 June 1999) [1] is a Norwegian athlete specialising in the pole vault. He is a European Indoor Championships gold and bronze medallist. Guttormsen won the gold medal at the 2023 European Indoor Championships and the bronze medal at the 2025 European Indoor Championships. He is also a European U23 Championships and European U18 Championships bronze medallist, three-time NCAA champion and four-time Norwegian national champion. Guttormsen is a two-time Olympian and competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. He is also the brother of Olympian Simen Guttormsen.

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Early life

Sondre Guttormsen was born the oldest of four children in Davis, California to Kristin and Atle Guttormsen. His father, a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, was studying for an economics Ph.D. at UC Davis. The family then returned to Ski, Norway. [2] [3]

Career

Guttormsen competed for the University of California, Los Angeles in his first year of college and then transferred to Princeton University in 2020. [3]

At the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, the vaulter suffered a quad injury on his first attempt at 5.65 metres and did not qualify for the final. [1] [2]

With his 2022 NCAA Indoors title, Guttormsen became the first indoor NCAA individual champion for Princeton since 2002. [3]

On 5 March 2023, the 23-year-old won the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey, the biggest success of his career up to that point. A few days later, he became only the ninth European to clear the six metre-mark indoors, set Norwegian outright record and equalled the collegiate record when winning his third NCAA title at the NCAA Division I Indoor T&F Championships. [4] [5]

Statistics

Guttormsen leaps at the 2020 BAUHAUS-galan meeting in Stockholm Sondre Guttormsen at the 2020 Bauhaus Galan meeting in Stockholm.jpg
Guttormsen leaps at the 2020 BAUHAUS-galan meeting in Stockholm

Personal bests

International competitions

Representing Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResult
2016 European U18 Championships Tbilisi, Georgia3rd Pole vault 5.05 PB
2017 European U20 Championships Grosseto, Italy6th Pole vault 5.10
2018 World U20 Championships Tampere, Finland6th Pole vault 5.40
European Championships Berlin, Germany6th Pole vault 5.75 NR
2019 European Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom6th Pole vault 5.55
European U23 Championships Gävle, Sweden4th Pole vault 5.50
European Team Championships 1st League Sandnes, Norway1st Pole vault 5.51
World Championships Doha, Qatar29th (q) Pole vault 5.30
2021 European U23 Championships Tallinn, Estonia3rd Pole vault 5.60
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan24th (q) Pole vault 5.50
2022 World Indoor Championships Belgrade, Serbia8th Pole vault 5.75
World Championships Eugene, OR, United States10th Pole vault 5.70
European Championships Munich, Germany6th Pole vault 5.75
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey1st Pole vault 5.80
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 20th (q) Pole vault 5.55 m
2024 Olympic Games Paris, France 8th Pole vault 5.80 m
2025 European Indoor Championships Apeldoorn, Netherlands 3rd Pole vault 5.90 m
World Indoor Championships Nanjing, China 7th Pole vault 5.70 m

NCAA titles

National titles

References

  1. 1 2 "Sondre GUTTORMSEN – Athlete Profile". World Athletics . Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Sondre Guttormsen - Men's Track and Field". Princeton Tigers . Princeton University . Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Feil, Justin (6 April 2022). "Making Unique Journey from Norway to PU Track Team, Guttormsen Flies to NCAA Indoor Men's Pole Vault Title | Town Topics". Town Topics . Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  4. ↑ Mills, Steven (13 March 2023). "Guttormsen soars over 6.00m at the NCAA Indoor Championships". European Athletics . Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  5. ↑ "Sondre Guttormsen Wins NCAA Indoor Pole Vault Championship Clearing 6.00m to Tie Collegiate Record". Princeton Tigers . Princeton University. 11 March 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
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