Sander Aae Skotheim

Sander Aae Skotheim (born 31 May 2002) is a Norwegian multi-event athlete. He is a European Championships silver and bronze medallist in decathlon, and a World Indoor Championships and European Indoor Championships gold and silver medallist in heptathlon. Skotheim is also a European U20 and U23 silver medallist, and a European Youth Olympic Festival gold medallist in decathlon. He competed in the decathlon event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Biography Skotheim won gold in Athletics at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in the decathlon in Baku, and silver at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships decathlon in Tallinn. In 2022, Skotheim won the senior indoor Norwegian championship in the heptathlon and won individual indoor medals including the gold in the high jump, silver in the triple jump and bronze in the long jump. Skotheim also won gold in the senior outdoor Norwegian championships in 2022, triumphing in the 110 metres hurdles and the high jump.

Whilst competing at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, Skotheim broke his personal best in the 100 metres, going under 11 seconds for the first time to set a new fastest time of 10.88 seconds. He also set a new personal best in the high jump as he reached a discipline winning mark of 2.17. After the first day of the event he was placed seventh overall before finishing fifteenth.

At the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships Skotheim finished with the silver medal in the heptathlon, close behind the decathlon world record holder Kevin Mayer. Competing at Götzis in May 2023, he set a Norwegian National record in decathlon with 8590 points. At the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships, in Espoo, Finland, he won the silver medal in the decathlon.

In March 2024 he won silver in the heptathlon at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Competing in the decathlon he was a silver medalist at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024 with a personal best tally of 8635 points. Skotheim competed in the decathlon event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, finishing eighteenth overall after failing his jumps in the pole vault. He finished second overall in the 2024 World Athletics Combined Events Tour.

In February 2025, he scored 6484 points to break the European heptathlon record and move to fifth on the world all-time list at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Silver meeting in Tallinn, Estonia. That month, he won the high jump and long jump titles at the Norwegian Indoor Championships. In March 2025, he won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships and broke his own European heptathlon record, scoring 6558 to move to third on the world indoor heptathlon all-time list. His competition included a personal best 6.93 in the 60 metres, an equal championship heptathlon best of 2.19m in the high jump, and a championship heptathlon best in the 1000m of 2:32.72. He followed that by also winning gold in the heptathlon at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025.

On 1 June 2025, he won the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis with 8909 points to reclaim the Norwegian national record, surpassing the tally with which Markus Rooth had won the 2024 Olympic Games. In September 2025, he competed in the decathlon at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, but disqualified during the 110 metres hurdles at the start of the second day for pushing a hurdle. He had been in second place after the first day of the competition. He won the season-long World Athletics Combined Events Tour for 2025.

Skotheim won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham, England, finishing with a total of 8433 points.

Personal bests Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Outdoor

+Individual events Event Performance Location Date 200 metres 21.82 Bærum 27 August 2022 800 metres 1:55.18 Bærum 28 August 2022 110 metres hurdles 13.97 Jessheim 6 July 2023 Long jump Sandnes 27 June 2024 High jump Jessheim 6 July 2023 Triple jump Borås 24 August 2024 Pole vault Oslo 28 June 2023 Discus throw Oslo 1 June 2024 Javelin throw 62.39 Jessheim 23 August 2025

+Combined events Event Performance Location Date Score Decathlon Götzis 31 May–1 June 2025 8,909 points 100 metres 10.70 Götzis 31 May 2025 929 points Long jump 8.06 Götzis 31 May 2025 1,076 points Shot put Götzis 31 May 2025 727 points High jump Eugene 23 July 2022 963 points 400 metres 47.02 Paris 2 August 2024 957 points 110 metres hurdles 14.12 Götzis 1 June 2025 959 points Discus throw Götzis 1 June 2025 853 points Pole vault Götzis 1 June 2025 941 points Javelin throw Grosseto 1 May 2022 761 points 1500 metres 4:16.60 Espoo 16 July 2023 835 points Virtual Best Performance 9,001 points

Indoor

+Individual events Event Performance Location Date 60 metres 6.99 Bærum 20 January 2023 800 metres 2:00.82 Sandnes 24 February 2019 60 metres hurdles 7.93 Bærum 11 February 2024 Long jump Espoo 9 February 2025 High jump Karlstad 12 February 2023 Triple jump Uppsala 13 February 2022 Pole vault Bærum 20 January 2024 Shot put Bærum 22 February 2025

+Combined events Event Performance Location Date Score Heptathlon Apeldoorn 7–8 March 2025 6,558 points 60 metres 6.93 Apeldoorn 7 March 2025 907 points Long jump Tallinn 1 February 2025 1,110 points Shot put Tallinn 1 February 2025 790 points High jump Istanbul 4 March 2023 982 points 60 metres hurdles 7.93 Nanjing 23 March 2025 999 points Pole vault Tallinn 2 February 2025 988 points 1000 metres 2:32.72 Apeldoorn 8 March 2025 956 points Virtual Best Performance 6,732 points