Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen (born 21 September 2002) is a Norwegian track and field athlete. He has been the national champion of Norway over 200m and 400m. In 2023, he became the European U23 champion over 400 metres and took the Norwegian national 400m record from Karsten Warholm.

Career

At the

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in Tallinn, he ran a new personal best time of 46.70 seconds in the final of the 400 metres to win a bronze medal. Later that summer, still aged 18 years-old, he recorded a national U20 record time of 45.95s as he won the 400m Norwegian Championships. He also ran the 400 meters during the

2022 European Athletics Championships The 2022 European Athletics Championships were the 25th edition of the European Athletics Championships and were held in Munich, Germany, from 15 to 21 August 2022. They were part of the European Championships, a multi-sport tournament which brin ...

in August 2022, in Munich but overall his 2022 season was hampered by injuries.

2023

On 15 June 2023, he set a new personal best time of 44.86s for the 400m at the

Diamond League The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day mee ...

event in Oslo. This also took the national record from Karsten Warholm. Ingvaldsen won gold at the

2023 European Team Championships The 2023 European Athletics Team Championships (ETC) in athletics will be held in Stadion Śląski in June 2023. The event was first planned to be held in Madrid, but after European Athletics and European Olympic Committee reached to an agreement ...

in Chorzow in June 2023. He ran 44.88s which was a championship record for the European Team Championships format. Competing at the

2023 European Athletics U23 Championships The 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships were the 14th edition of the biennial athletics competition between European athletes under the age of twenty three. The event was organized by European Athletics Association and held from 13–16 Ju ...

held from in July 2023 in Espoo, Finland, he won the gold medal in the 400m. Competing at the

2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( hu, 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held from 19 August to 27 August 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The city of Budapes ...

in Budapest, he lowered his national record in the 400 metres to 44.39 to qualify for the semi final. He finished sixth overall in the final.

Achievements

Information from his World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

International competitions

National titles

* Norwegian Championships (2) **

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: 2023 **

400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor runn ...

: 2021

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingvaldsen, Håvard Bentdal 2002 births Living people Norwegian Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Norwegian people Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games gold medalists for Norway European Games medalists in athletics Norwegian male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics