Ida Karstoft

Ida Kathrine Karstoft (born 29 October 1995) is a Danish athlete who competes as a sprinter. She won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2022 European Championships. Formerly a footballer, she played for Brøndby IF and the Denmark national women's football team.

Football career She started her sporting career as a football player in the Danish league for Brøndby IF, where she played for eighteen months, and for whom she featured in the Champions league. She was also capped by the Denmark national women's football team prior to being contacted by an athletics coach in 2016, whereafter she transitioned to sprinting, and in 2017 she began focusing on athletics fully instead.

Athletics career Karstoft had only participated in athletics competitions for a few months before she was selected to represent the Danish national athletics team in the 200 metres race and the sprint relay team.

She was a member of the Danish team at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan in 2021, where she represented Denmark in the women's 4 x 100 metres relay. Alongside Astrid Glenner-Frandsen, Emma Beiter Bomme and Mathilde Kramer, the Danish team broke the Danish national record with a time of 43.51 seconds. Karstoft then won the 200 metres at the 2022 Bislett Games in Oslo, part of the 2022 Diamond League, in 22.73 seconds. She then won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2022 European Championships.

In April 2024, she lowered her own Danish national record to 22.60 seconds whilst competing in the United States. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the 200 metres.

Personal life She is from Lemvig, and studied sports management at Copenhagen Business Academy.