_2020.png) Guttormsen in 2020 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Born | 1 June 1999 Davis, California, United States |
| 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) |
Medal record | |
Sondre Guttormsen (born 1 June 1999)[1] is a Norwegian athlete specialising in the pole vault. He won the gold medal at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. Guttormsen earned bronze at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships.
He was the pole vault bronze medallist at the 2016 European U18 Championships. He is a three-time NCAA champion and a four-time Norwegian national champion.
Sondre Guttormsen was born the oldest of four children in Davis, California to Kristin and Atle Guttormsen. His father, a professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, was studying for an economics Ph.D. at UC Davis. The family then returned to Ski, Norway.[2][3]
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]
