Jacob Gudim Karlsen (born 24 July 2001,
Lørenskog,
Norway) is a Norwegian
artistic gymnast
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...
. In 2018, he won the bronze medal in the
vault event at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held ...
held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sports career
2017
Karlsen got bronze in
floor
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and
pommel horse during the Junior National Championships in gymnastics in 2017, and he came fourth in pommel horse and fifth in rings. Overall, he came fourth.
He participated in the
2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival
The 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival ( hu, 2017. évi nyári európai ifjúsági olimpiai fesztivál) was held in Győr, Hungary, between 23 July and 30 July 2017.
Sports
* 130 set of medals
Venues
Schedule
The competition schedu ...
. In the all-around he came in 41st place in the qualification with 72.650 points, and did not reach the final. He came in 31st place in free standing, 39th place in pommel horse, 10th place in rings, 47th place in bars and 51st place in pommel horse.His total score was a new personal best.
2018
In the
2018 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, he came in 28th place in the all-around in the junior class, with 74.531 points. His best individual placing was
rings, where he came 21st.He participated in the 2018 Nordic Gymnastics Championships , and came fourth overall in the junior class, with 74.032 points. Individually he won rings and bar, and Norway got silver in the team competition, where Karlsen participated together with Fredrik Bjørnevik Aas, Thodor Gadderud , Didrik Gundersen and Magnus Nygaard-Damm.
In the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, he won bronze in
vault, where he scored 14.200 and 13.566 on his two vaults, which gave a total of 13.883. In the all-around he came in 18th place with 69.332 points.
References
External links
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Living people
2001 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Norwegian male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
21st-century Norwegian people