WARHOLM Karsten

Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Place of birth: ULSTEINVIK

Birth Country:

Norway

Place of residence : OSLO

Residence Country:

Norway

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's 400m Hurdles	1

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
WR	Men's 400m Hurdles Final	45.94	3 August, 2021	Tokyo (JPN)
OR	Men's 400m Hurdles Final	45.94	3 August, 2021	Tokyo (JPN)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 400m Hurdles Round 1 - Heat 3	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 400m Hurdles Semi-Final 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 400m Hurdles Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (48.81)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	400m Hurdles
2019	Doha, QAT	1st (47.42)
2017	London, GBR	1st (48.35)

European Championships

Year	Location	400m	400m Hurdles
2018	Berlin, GER	8th (46.68)	1st (47.64)

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

Year	400m	400m Hurdles
2021	-	2 x 1st
2020	1 x 1st	3 x 1st
2019	-	4 x 1st
2018	-	5 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd
2017	-	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2021	400m Hurdles	Monaco, MON	47.08
1	2021	400m Hurdles	Oslo, NOR	46.70
1	2020	400m	Stockholm, SWE	45.05
1	2020	400m Hurdles	Rome, ITA	47.07
1	2020	400m Hurdles	Stockholm, SWE	46.87
1	2020	400m Hurdles	Monaco, MON	47.10
1	2019	400m Hurdles	Zurich, SUI	46.92
1	2019	400m Hurdles	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	47.26
1	2019	400m Hurdles	Oslo, NOR	47.33
1	2019	400m Hurdles	Stockholm, SWE	47.85
1	2017	400m Hurdles	Stockholm, SWE	48.82
1	2017	400m Hurdles	Oslo, NOR	48.25

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2020	400m Hurdles	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	47.62

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

Building Lego, spending time with family. (olympicchannel.com, 20 Aug 2020; Facebook page, 30 Jul 2016)

Occupation:

Partner Oda Djupvik

Languages spoken:

English, Norwegian

Dimna IL [Ulsteinvik, NOR]

Leif Olav Alnes [personal], NOR

He began running at age eight in Ulsteinvik, Norway. (trackandfieldnews.com, 23 Dec 2019)

"I was actually visiting the city centre [of Ulsteinvik, Norway]. Then a friend of mine, he was in the track and field club, came and said, 'You need to join this race'. I was there in my jeans and this t-shirt that was way too big for me. I joined the race and I won, I think it was a 200m race, just around a county building. That was when I started and after that I was always going to practices, I was always there and had all my friends in the track and field environment." (trackandfieldnews.com, 23 Dec 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nab.no, 27 Dec 2019)

Winning a gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. (european-athletics.org, 26 Aug 2020)

He prefers to run in lane seven. "It's actually just because my coach, who is really careful, wanted me to run very far out of the bend because there is less impact on the body as the bend is wider. It's also because he wants me to have a long career and try not to get injured. But of course, in championships you have got to run on the lane that you get and that is not a problem for me, but if I get to choose, I will always have lane seven. It has become a thing that I'm comfortable with." (olympicchannel.com, 20 Aug 2020)

Philosophy:

"What people see is who crosses the finish line first. But for me it's like I'm always becoming better, always running faster times. Always do better, that is the thing that I probably value the most." (trackandfieldnews.com, 23 Dec 2019)

In 2019 he was named Male Athlete of the Year by both the European Athletic Association and the Track and Field News [T&FN] website. (trackandfieldnews.com, 23 Dec 2019; friidrett.no, 26 Oct 2019)

He received the Athletics Performance Prize at the 2016 Sports Gala in Norway. (vikebladet.no, 24 Jan 2016)

He was presented with the Athletics Development Prize at the 2013 Sports Gala in Norway. (vikebladet.no, 24 Jan 2016)

General Interest

General
CHANGE OF DISCIPLINE
In 2015 he moved to Oslo, Norway, to train with coach Leif Olav Alnes and focus on competing in sprint and hurdles events. He had previously trained as a multi-event athlete under coach Arve Hatloy. "Multi-eventing was actually a solution for me so I didn't have to choose events. I ended up doing the octathlon, it worked perfect for me. Then I went to do decathlon, it was terrible for me. There was a lot of work that needed to be done, I tried to do that, but then there was a suggestion to do the 400m hurdles, and I actually never really looked back. Coach Leif said, 'If you want to reach the Olympics you should be in another event because the decathlon will take too long'. I agreed on that." (european-athletics.org, 26 Aug 2020; World Athletics YouTube channel, 09 Feb 2020; trackandfieldnews.com, 23 Dec 2019)

Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/warholm1
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KarstenWarholmTheStar
https://instagram.com/kwarholm
https://twitter.com/kwarholm
Athlete Website: https://www.kwinternational.no

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
OR:: Olympic Record
WR:: World Record

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