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. He is also the brother of Olympian Simen Guttormsen.
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 – (Trondheim, NOR 2026) Pole vault indoor – (Rouen, FRA 2026)
International competitions 2016European U18 ChampionshipsTbilisi, Georgia3rdPole vault5.05 2017European U20 ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy6thPole vault5.102018World U20 ChampionshipsTampere, Finland6thPole vault5.40European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany6thPole vault5.75 2019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom6thPole vault5.55European U23 ChampionshipsGävle, Sweden4thPole vault5.50European Team Championships 1st LeagueSandnes, Norway1stPole vault5.51World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar29th (q)Pole vault5.302021European U23 ChampionshipsTallinn, Estonia3rdPole vault5.60Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan24th (q)Pole vault5.502022World Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia8thPole vault5.75World ChampionshipsEugene, OR, United States10thPole vault5.70European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany6thPole vault5.752023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey1stPole vault5.80World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary20th (q)Pole vault5.55 m2024Olympic GamesParis, France8thPole vault5.80 m 2025European Indoor ChampionshipsApeldoorn, Netherlands3rdPole vault5.90 mWorld Indoor Championships Nanjing, China 7thPole vault 5.70 mWorld ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan6thPole vault5.90 m2026World Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland4thPole vault5.95 mEuropean ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom6thPole vault5.70 mWorld Ultimate ChampionshipBudapest, Hungary3rdPole vault5.95 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
References
External links
Sondre Guttormsen at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)