Embla Matilde Njerve
Norwegian athlete (born 2007)
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Embla Matilde Njerve (born 22 February 2007) is a Norwegian pole vaulter. She became Norwegian national champion at the Norwegian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2024.[1]
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| Nationality | Norwegian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 February 2007 Bergen, Norway | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Pole Vault | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Pole Vault: 4.30m (2024) NU20R | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
Career
Embla is a member of the Bergen Gymnastics Association.[3] In June 2022, she jumped a personal best to finish fifth at the Norwegian Athletics Championships, despite being one of the youngest in the competition at the age of 15 years old.[4]
She finished third at the Norwegian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2023 in Bærum.[5] She won a bronze medal at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Games in Maribor, Slovenia.[6]
She won the pole vault at the 2024 Norwegian Indoor Athletics Championships in Steinkjerhallen, Steinkjer in February 2024, for her first senior national title.[7] She finished second in the pole vault at the Norwegian Athletics Championships in June 2024.[8] She was a silver medalist in the pole vault at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.[9][2] In August 2024, she won the Nordic U20 Championships in Denmark.[2] Later that month, she cleared 4.30 metres at the Norwegian U18 Championships in Oslo, to set new Norwegian under-18 and under-20 records in the pole vault.[10]
In Gothenburg in January 2025 she cleared 4.28 metres to also set a new U20 Norwegian indoor record, surpassing the previous record set by Lene Retzius.[11][8] She finished third in the pole vault at the Norwegian Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2025.[12] In May 2025, she announced she would miss the outdoor season in 2025 due to Infectious mononucleosis.[13]
Personal life
Her father Sigurd Njerve competed for Norway in the triple jump at the 1996 Olympic Games.[14][8][15] She has many followers on social media with videos of her competing in 2024 surpassing 100 million views.[16]