Josefine Tomine Eriksen
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| Born | 16 August 2000 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | 400 metres | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 400m: 52.28 (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Josefine Tomine Eriksen Aks (born 16 August 2000) is a Norwegian sprinter. She competed at the 2024 Olympic Games.[1]
Career
She is from Stavern and won a bronze medal in the 400 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships in Tbilisi at the age of 15 years-old and at that age made her debut at the Bislett Games.[2] She later studied and competed in the United States at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and from 2022, the University of Utah.[3]
A member of the Norwegian team at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas,[3] she also competed in the relay for Norway at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[4][2] That month, she was runner-up to Henriette Jaeger over 400 metres at the Norwegian Championships in Sandnes.[5][2] She competed as part of the Norwegian team at the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France in August, in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay.[6]
She helped the Norwegian women's 4 x 400 metres relay team set a new national record in finishing fourth overall at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China.[7] She was a member of the Norwegian 4 x 400 metres team which qualified for the final at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing sixth overall.[8]
Aks won the 400 metres title at the 2026 Norwegian Indoor Championships with a time of 52.91 seconds.[9]
References
- ^ "Josefine Tomine Eriksen". World Athletics. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ a b c "Norway's unknown "relay rocket" was close to giving up: - Should have asked for help much earlier". nrk.no. 22 July 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ a b "Fresh off qualifying for the Olympics, Josefine Eriksen leads Utes into NCAA track championships". Deseret. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ "Norwegian Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 27 June 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ "How Utah runner Josefine Eriksen fared in the Olympic women's 4x400-meter relay". Deserert News. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ "USA, Spain and South Africa claim 4x400m titles in Guangzhou". World Athletics. 11 May 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 20 September 2025. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ "Norwegian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 1 March 2026. Retrieved 5 March 2026.