Karsten Warholm: from local street race to world record

Ulsteinvik, Norway: At the age of just seven, wearing jeans in a local street race in his home town of Ulsteinvik in Norway, Karsten Warholm won his f...

Ulsteinvik, Norway: At the age of just seven, wearing jeans in a local street race in his home town of Ulsteinvik in Norway, Karsten Warholm won his first medal.

More followed and today a hundred or so adorn the childhood bedroom of the reigning European, world and Olympic 400m hurdles champion.

It is the brightest gold in a small shipyard town on the edge of the North Sea.

Warholm merits just a one-line mention on the town's Wikipedia page and yet his exploits on the track are perhaps how future generations will remember Ulsteinvik.

The 28-year-old has genuinely won it all: three world championships, two European championships and an Olympic title in 2021 with a stunning world record time.