Marcus Thomsen
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Voss, Norway | 7 January 1998
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Shot put |
Club | IK Tjalve |
Coached by | Simon Stewart, Vesteinn Hafsteinsson |
Marcus Thomsen (born 7 January 1998 in Voss) is a Norwegian athlete specialising in the shot put.[1] He won a gold medal at the 2017 European U20 Championships. He also reached the final at the European Indoor Championships finishing seventh.
His family moved from Voss to Aarhus, Denmark in 2012, and Thomsen spent his teenage years there. When breaking through as a youth athlete he did not represent any Norwegian club, eventually being recruited by Oslo-based club IK Tjalve.[2]
His personal bests in the event are 21.03 metres outdoors, achieved in June 2020 at Oslo, and 21.09 metres indoors, achieved in February 2021 at Växjö, Sweden, which is also the national record.
International competitions
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Marcus Thomsen at World Athletics
- ^ Rotnes, Hanne Hagen (10 January 2014). "Danskene hyller friidretts-talent fra Voss". Bergensavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 4 March 2019.
Categories:
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Norwegian male shot putters
- People from Voss
- Norwegian expatriates in Denmark
- Norwegian Athletics Championships winners
- Sportspeople from Vestland
- European Games competitors for Norway
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Norway
- Norwegian athletics biography stubs