GROVDAL Karoline Bjerkeli

Date of Birth: 14 Jun 1990

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Place of birth: ALESUND

Birth Country:

Norway

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 5000m	14
	Women's 10,000m	DNF

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 5000m Round 1 - Heat 2	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 5000m Final	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Women's 10,000m Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	5000m	10,000m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (14:57.53)	9th (31:14.07)
2012	London, GBR	1R (15:24.86)	-

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	1500m	5000m	3000m SC
2019	Doha, QAT	-	Heats (DNF)	13th (9:29.41)
2017	London, GBR	Heats (4:09.56)	15th (DNF)	-
2015	Beijing, CHN	-	Heats (16:02.20)	-
2013	Moscow, RUS	-	13th (15:48.87)	-
2009	Berlin, GER	-	-	Heats (9:48.47)
2007	Osaka, JPN	-	-	Heats (9:56.41)

European Championships

Year	Location	3000m SC
2018	Berlin, GER	3rd (9:24.46)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	1500m	3000m	5000m	3000m SC
2021	-	-	1 x 8th	-
2019	-	-	1 x 11th	1 x 8th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 12th
2018	1 x 9th	-	-	1 x 7th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 11th
2017	-	1 x 10th	1 x 9th	-

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
7	2018	3000m Steeplechase	Oslo, NOR	9:29.94
8	2021	5000m	Oslo, NOR	14:47.67
8	2019	3000m Steeplechase	Birmingham, GBR	9:22.69
9	2019	3000m Steeplechase	Zurich, SUI	9:20.69
9	2018	1500m	Stockholm, SWE	4:05.57
9	2018	3000m Steeplechase	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	9:28.50
9	2017	5000m	Rome, ITA	15:05.36
10	2017	3000m	Monaco, MON	8:37.58
11	2019	5000m	London, GBR	14:51.66
11	2018	3000m Steeplechase	Monaco, MON	9:18.36

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Karo (nettavisen.no, 17 Oct 2019)

Occupation:

Sociology, Sports and Recreation Studies - Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, NOR

Languages spoken:

English, Norwegian

IK Tjalve [Oslo, NOR]

Knut Jaeger Hansen [personal], from 2019

Sporting relatives:

Her cousin Havard Bjerkeli represented Norway in cross-country skiing at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. (kondis.no, 12 Feb 2012; vg.no, 13 Dec 2015; SportsDeskOnline, 25 Aug 2020)

Other sports:

She competed in cross-country skiing at junior national level. (kondis.no, 09 Jan 2007)

In April 2012 she injured her wrist at the end of a three-week training camp in Portugal. (rbnett.no, 20 Apr 2012)

As a teenager she struggled with eating disorders, as a result of which she had to take a one-year break from sport in late 2007 because of excessive load on the body. (sporten.com, 30 Jul 2015)

"My first race was when I was eight years old, but by 14 years of age I was running more and more." (kondis.no, 12 Feb 2012)

Initially she also competed in cross-country skiing, but in 2010 she chose to focus on running because that was the sport she felt she had made the most progress in. (kondis.no, 12 Feb 2012)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (vg.no, 02 Oct 2019)

Norwegian long-distance runners Ingrid Kristiansen and Grete Waitz. (worldathletics.org, 18 Jan 2014)

She received the Rising Star award from European Athletics in 2010. (kondis.no, 12 Feb 2012)

General Interest

General
CHANGE OF COACH AND FOCUS
Following the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, where she finished 13th in the 3000m steeplechase, she split with coach Stale Jan Froynes and began working with Knut Jaeger Hansen. She said she would also begin focusing on the 5000m and 10,000m ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I feel what I needed was a little more enjoyment in training, and in that sense Knut is very good. I lost that a bit with the steeplechase. I think I probably had a little too much focus on results, rather than a focus on becoming a better runner." (nettavisen.no, 07 Oct 2019; tv2.no, 05 Dec 2019)

Milestones

She became the first Norwegian athlete to win a medal at the European cross-country championships when she won bronze at the 2015 edition of the tournament in Hyeres, France. At the 2019 European Cross-Country Championships in Lisbon, Portugal, she became the first female Norwegian athlete to win a silver medal at the competition. (TV2.no, 13 Dec 2015; SportsDeskOnline, 25 Aug 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
DNF:: Did not finish

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