| Henriette Jæger | |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | 400m |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 2003 |
| Pb: | 200m: 22.58 (Malmo, 2024) 300m: 35.46 (Bergen, 2024) 400m: 49.85 (La Chaux de Fonds, 2024) Indoors 400m: 51.05 (Torún, 2024) |
Henriette Jæger (born 30 June 2003) is a Norwegian track and field athlete. She is a multiple time national champion, and former U18 world record holder. In 2023, she became the Norwegian record holder over 400 metres.[1]
From Aremark,[2] Jæger was 14 years-old when she came third at the Norwegian senior indoor championships over 200 metres, in February 2018.[3] As a 14 year-old at the Baltic Athletics Championships in 2018, she broke the Norwegian record for girls aged 15 in the heptathlon, that had stood since 1986, with a score of 5352 points.[4] Competing in Fagernes in 2020 she broke 6000 points for the heptathlon for the first time.[5] In September 2020, she broke the world U18 Heptathlon record with 6301 points, surpassing María Vicente’s record score from 2008.[6] [7]
Jæger set a new Norwegian U20 heptathlon record in Gotzis in May 2021 of 6154 points.[8]
Jæger finished in fourth place in the 400 meters at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships held in Cali, Colombia with a time of 52.23 seconds.[9]
Competing at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships held from in July 2023 in Espoo, Finland, she won a silver medal in the 400m after a close battle with Yemi Mary John, with Keely Hodgkinson in third.[10] Her time of 51.06s set a Norwegian record over the distance.[11]
In January 2024, she set a new national record in the 200 metres indoors running 22.99 in Baerum.[12] At the 2024 Copernicus Cup in February 2024, she set a new 400m personal best, and a new national record, running 51.05.[13] She competed in the 400 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Championships in Glasgow and reached the semi-finals.[14] She ran as part of the Norwegian 4x400m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics, at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[15]
In June 2024, in Rome, she became the first Norwegian women to reach the final of the 200 metres at the European Athletics Championships for 78 years winning her semi final in 22.71 seconds.[16] She finished fourth in the final having run 22.83 seconds.[17] Later that month, she won both the 200m and 400m at the Norwegian Athletics Championships.[18] She ran a new 400m personal best of 49.85 seconds in La Chaux-de-Fonds in July 2024.[19]