| Sander Skotheim | |
| Birth Name: | Sander Aae Skotheim |
| Nationality: | Norwegian |
| Sport: | Track and Field |
| Event: | decathlon |
| Club: | IL Koll IK Tjalve |
| Birth Date: | 31 May 2002 |
| Height: | 1.86 m[1] |
| Pb: | Decathlon: 8635 (Rome, 2024) |
Sander Aae Skotheim (born 31 May 2002) is a Norwegian multi-event athlete. He was a silver medalist in the heptathlon at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, and the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul. In the decathlon he was a silver medalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.
Skotheim won gold in Athletics at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in the decathlon in Baku, and silver at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships decathlon in Tallinn. In 2022, Skotheim won the senior indoor Norwegian championship in the heptathlon and won individual indoor medals including the gold in the high jump, silver in the triple jump and bronze in the long jump. Skotheim also won gold in the senior outdoor Norwegian championships in 2022, triumphing in the 110 metres hurdles and the high jump.[2]
Whilst competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships Skotheim broke his personal best in the 100 metres, going under 11 seconds for the first time to set a new fastest time of 10.88 seconds. He also set a new personal best in the high jump as he reached a discipline winning mark of 2.17. After the first day of the event he was placed seventh overall before finishing fifteenth.[3]
At the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships Skotheim finished with the silver medal in the heptathlon, close behind the decathlon world record holder Kevin Mayer.[4] Competing at Götzis in May 2023, he set a Norwegian National record in decathlon with 8590 points. At the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships, in Espoo, Finland, he won the silver medal in the decathlon.[5]
In March 2024 he won silver in the heptathlon at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[6] Competing in the decathlon he was a silver medalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024 with a personal best tally of 8635 points.[7]
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