Sondre Guttormsen
Norwegian pole vaulter
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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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Guttormsen in 2020 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Born | 1 June 1999 Davis, California, U.S. |
| Height | 1.85 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) |
Early life
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
Personal bests
- Pole vault – 5.90 m (19 ft 4+1⁄4 in) (Austin, TX 2023) NR
- Pole vault indoor – 6.06 m (19 ft 10+1⁄2 in) ( Rouen, FRA 2026) NR
International competitions
NCAA titles
National titles
- Norwegian Athletics Championships
- Pole Vault: 2018, 2019, 2020
- Norwegian Indoor Athletics Championships
- 60 metres hurdles: 2017
