Amalie Hammild Iuel (born 17 April 1994) is a Danish-Norwegian

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. She represented Norway in the women's

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at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

, but was eliminated in the heats.

Biography

Amalie Iuel was born in Denmark to a Danish mother and a Danish-Norwegian father; the family moved to Norway when she was two years old, and she spent most of her childhood there. The Iuels left Norway when Amalie was twelve due to the demands of her father's job with Telenor; they first moved to Namibia, and later Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand. Iuel took up track and field as a young girl in Norway, but did not pursue it seriously before her time in Thailand at the International School Bangkok (ISB); her coach there, Ugo Costessi, introduced her to the 400 metres hurdles. After high school, she moved to the United States and became a student athlete at the

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(USC).

Personal life

Iuel has been in a relationship with former alpine skier

Aksel Lund Svindal Aksel Lund Svindal (born 26 December 1982) is a Norwegian former World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Lørenskog in Akershus county, Svindal is a two-time overall World Cup champion (2007 and 2009), an Olympic gold medalist in super-G at the 20 ...

since 2020. The couple had a son, in September 2023. A month later, they announced their engagement.

NCAA

During the 2015 season (her sophomore year at USC) Iuel set both Danish and Norwegian under-23 records in the women's

, running 55.92 as a Dane and 56.36 as a Norwegian. She placed seventh at the 2015 NCAA championships with 56.99.

Professional

She received Norwegian citizenship and switched her athletic allegiance from Denmark to Norway in June 2015, shortly before the 2015 European U23 Championships where she placed fifth as a Norwegian in her first international championship meet. She represented Norway in the

at the

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, China, but was eliminated in the first round.Heats results
/ref> In 2019, she represented Norway at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples, Italy and she won the bronze medal in the women's 400 metres hurdles event.

Domestic Championships

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Iuel, Amalie 1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Bærum Sportspeople from Aalborg Norwegian female hurdlers World Athletics Championships athletes for Norway USC Trojans women's track and field athletes Norwegian people of Danish descent Danish expatriate sportspeople in Thailand World Athletics Championships athletes for Denmark Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Norway Norwegian Athletics Championships winners Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Norway Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics