karsten warholm

World record-breaking athlete Karsten Warholm is sprinter, who competes in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. In 2021 he broke the world record in the 400 metres hurdles, and in the same year at the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics he won Gold in the same event, breaking his own record. He is also a 2x World Champion, a 2x European Champion, and a 2x Diamond League Champion. In 2021 he was voted World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year.

Born and raised in Norway, Warholm started running at a young age, and quickly shot to fame in his native country when he won eight Gold medals in the 2013 Norwegian Youth Indoors Championships. He went on to compete at the World Youth Championships representing Europe and won Gold in the Octathlon. He won two Silvers at the 2015 European Junior Championships in 400m and Decathlon, and in 2017 he won a Gold in the 400m hurdles, and a Silver in the 400m at the European U23 Championships, as well as picking up his first World Championships Gold in the 400m hurdles. In 2018 he claimed his first European Championships Gold for 400m hurdles, as well as a Bronze at the Continental Cup. In 2019 he won his first European Indoor Championships Gold for 400m, and his second World Championships Gold for the 400m hurdles. After claiming Gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for the 400m hurdles in a new world record time of 45.94s, he went on to claim his second European Championship Gold at Munich in 2022.

Warholm regularly connects with his hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, posting pictures and videos of his life around athletics.