# Sondre Guttormsen

Sondre Guttormsen (born 1 June 1999) 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.

## Early life

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.

## Career

Guttormsen competed for the University of California, Los Angeles in his first year of college and then transferred to Princeton University in 2020.
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.
With his 2022 NCAA Indoors title, Guttormsen became the first indoor NCAA individual champion for Princeton since 2002.
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.

## Statistics
### Personal bests

* Pole vault – 5.86 m (19 ft 2+1⁄2 in) (Zürich 2022) =NR
** Pole vault indoor – 6.00 m (19 ft 8 in) (Albuquerque, NM 2023) NR

### International competitions

Representing  Norway :
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result |
| 2016 | European U18 Championships | Tbilisi, Georgia | 3rd | Pole vault | 5.05 PB |
| 2017 | European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 6th | Pole vault | 5.10 |
| 2018 | World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 6th | Pole vault | 5.40 |
| 2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 6th | Pole vault | 5.75 NR |
| 2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 6th | Pole vault | 5.55 |
| 2019 | European U23 Championships | Gävle, Sweden | 4th | Pole vault | 5.50 |
| 2019 | European Team Championships 1st League | Sandnes, Norway | 1st | Pole vault | 5.51 |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 29th (q) | Pole vault | 5.30 |
| 2021 | European U23 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 3rd | Pole vault | 5.60 |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 24th (q) | Pole vault | 5.50 |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 8th | Pole vault | 5.75 |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | 10th | Pole vault | 5.70 |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 6th | Pole vault | 5.75 |
| 2023 | European Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 1st | Pole vault | 5.80 |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 20th (q) | Pole vault | 5.55 m |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 8th | Pole vault | 5.80 m |
| 2025 | European Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 3rd | Pole vault | 5.90 m |

### NCAA titles

* NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships
** Pole Vault: 2022
* NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships
** Pole Vault: 2022
** Pole Vault: 2023

### National titles

* Norwegian Athletics Championships
** Pole Vault: 2018, 2019, 2020
* Norwegian Indoor Athletics Championships
** 60 metres hurdles: 2017