Guðrún Karítas Hallgrímsdóttir
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| Nationality | Icelandic | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 July 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Hammer: 71.41m (2026) NR | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Guðrún Karítas Hallgrímsdóttir (born 7 July 2002) is an Icelandic hammer thrower. The national record holder, she won the bronze medal at the European Throwing Cup in 2026.[1]
Biography
From Borgarfjörður, she trained in the hammer throw from 2018 in Laugardalur, before later studying and competing in the United States at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).[2][3]
She won the hammer throw title at the Icelandic Athletics Championships in 2023, and the following year also set a new personal best and school record of 20.37 metres in the shot put whilst competing in Virginia for VCU.[4] She placed fifth in the hammer throw competing at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships with a best throw of 69.12 metres.[5] She made her senior championships debut reorienting Iceland at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, in June 2024.[2]
Hallgrímsdóttir threw a personal best of 69.99 metres competing in the hammer throw in Hungary in August 2025.[6] She threw a new national record 71.38 metres later that month at the Icelandic Athletics Championships, breaking the mark set previously by Elísabet Rut Rúnarsdóttir.[7] In doing so, she became the second Icelandic woman to surpass 70 metres.[8] She subsequently represented Iceland at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, achieving a longest throw of 64.94 meters.[9][10]
Hallgrímsdóttir broke her national record in winning the bronze medal at the European Throwing Cup in Nicosia on 14 March 2026, first throwing 70.84 metres before improving to 71.41 metres, to finish behind Katrine Koch Jacobsen of Denmark and Nicola Tuthill of Ireland.[11][12] Since 20 March 2026 she shares this national record with Elísabet Rut Rúnarsdóttir who threw the same distance of 71.41 metres at the 2026 UTSA Invitational in San Antonio, Texas.[13]
References
- ^ "Guðrún Karítas Hallgrímsdóttir". World Athletics. Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ a b Sigurbjörnsson, Þorkell Gunnar; Bjarnason, Hans Steinar (2025-07-14). "„Þá bara rétti hann mér sleggju og bað mig að prófa"" ["Then he just handed me a sledgehammer and asked me to try it"]. ruv.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ "NCAA WOMEN'S FORMCHART - 4/22/25". Runnerspace. 2025-04-22. Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ Jónsson, Óskar Ófeigur (2024-01-15). "Setti bæði Íslandsmet og skólamet hjá VCU" [Set both a national and a VCU record]. Visir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ "NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships". World Athletics. 2024-06-06. Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ "Guðrún Karítas sló Íslandsmetið" [Guðrún Karítas broke the Icelandic record]. mbl.is (in Icelandic). 2025-08-22. Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ Sverrisson, Sindri (2025-09-14). "Guðrún Karítas fjarri nýja metinu á sínu fyrsta HM" [Guðrún Karítas is far from the new record at her first World Cup]. visir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ Ormarsson, Almarr (2025-08-22). "Gúðrún Karítas sló Íslandsmet í sleggjukasti" [Guðrún Karítas broke the Icelandic record in the hammer throw]. ruv.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 2025-09-18. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
- ^ Jónsson, Einar Örn (2025-09-14). "Guðrún Karítas komst ekki áfram á HM" [Guðrún Karítas did not advance to the World Cup]. ruv.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ "Guðrún sló eigið Íslandsmet" [Guðrún broke her own record]. mlb.is (in Icelandic). 2026-03-14. Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ Trapnell, Jasmine (2026-03-14). "75.52m! Jacobsen sets world lead and Danish hammer record for European Throwing Cup gold". European Athletics. Retrieved 2026-03-14.
- ^ "2026 UTSA Invitational". milesplit.com. 2026-03-20. Retrieved 2026-03-21.