Margrethe Renstrøm
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| Born | 21 March 1985 |
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| Country | Norway |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Long jump |
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Margrethe Renstrøm (born 21 March 1985) is a Norwegian long jumper. She has competed with modest results in international junior and senior championships, most notably the 2009 World Championships. She is best known for her personal best is 6.68 metres, achieved in July 2010 in Barcelona, which is the current Norwegian record. When she broke the record, it was the oldest existing athletics record in Norway. Renstrøm also has 13.25 metres in the triple jump, achieved in July 2006 at Bislett stadion.
She hails from Søgne, and represented the club Søgne IL in her early career. This is the same club that Kristen Fløgstad, the Norwegian record holder in the men's long jump, once belonged to.
At the 2001 European Youth Olympic Festival she won the gold medal with a jump of 6.15 metres, one centimetre ahead of silver medalist Elysée Vésanes. In the qualification round she had jumper 5.98 metres. She also competed in the 4 x 100 metres relay, but the Norwegian team did not finish the race. In 2002, she made her debut at the European Cup, but failed to register a valid jump. She finished tenth in the triple jump at the 2003 European Junior Championships, having registered 12.70 in the qualification and 12.78 in the final round. In the period before 2005 she won two Norwegian national titles in the long jump; in 2002 and 2003.
Her personal best remained 6.15 for many years, as she registered 6.08 metres in 2002, 6.10 metres in 2003, 6.06 metres in 2004 and 6.11 metres in 2005. In the triple jump she recorded 12.88 metres in 2003, only 12.03 metres in 2005 before soaring back to 13.03 metres in 2006. Also, in June 2001 she achieved 1.69 metres in the high jump, an all-time best for her. She has a personal best in the 100 metres hurdles of 14.39 seconds, achieved on Nadderud stadion in June 2002.
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