Elisabeth Slettum (born 31 August 1986) is a Norwegian athlete who specialized in the

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, later the

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. Individually she finished sixth at the 2003 European Youth Olympic Festival. She competed at the 2004 World Junior Championships, the 2005 European Indoor Championships, the 2005 European Junior Championships, the 2006 European Championships, the 2007 European U23 Championships and the 2014 European Championships without reaching the final. At the Norwegian championships she won gold in 2005–2009 and 2014–2015, and also took four silver medals and one bronze. In the 100 metres she has six silver medals and one bronze medal. She represents the club IL Skjalg. Her personal best times are 11.73 in the 100 metres, achieved in August 2013 at

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and 23.48 in the 200 metres, achieved at the 2007 European U23 Championships in

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. Indoors she notably ran the 200 metres in 23.66 seconds in February 2004 in

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, a national indoor record for more than a decade. In the 4 x 100 metres relay she finished fifth at the 2003 European Youth Olympic Festival and was a Norwegian team mainstay at numerous European Cups and Team Championships. She helped breaking the Norwegian record with 44.35 seconds at the 2008 edition, together with Siri Eritsland, Folake Akinyemi and

Ezinne Okparaebo Ezinne Okparaebo (born 3 March 1988) is a Norwegian sprinter. She is Scandinavia's fastest woman ever over 60m and 100m. Okparaebo has won the 100m national title 13 times. She moved to Norway as a nine-year old and grew up in Ammerud. She vis ...

. Slettum helped improve it to 44.29 seconds at the 2014 European Championships with

Isabelle Pedersen Isabelle Pedersen (born January 27, 1992) is a Norwegian former track and field athlete who competed in hurdling. She is a World Junior Championships and World Youth Championships gold medallist, and two-time European Junior Championships sil ...

, Christine Bjelland Jensen and Ezinne Okparaebo; then to 43.94 seconds at the

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with Isabelle Pedersen, Ida Bakke Hansen and Ezinne Okparaebo. After

Amalie Iuel Amalie Hammild Iuel (born 17 April 1994) is a Danish-Norwegian hurdler. She represented Norway in the women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics, but was eliminated in the heats. Biography Amalie Iuel was born in De ...

relocated to Norway in 2017, Slettum, Iuel and

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formed a group training under Leif Olav Alnes. Slettum had switched event to the low hurdles. In 2018 she ran personal best times of 54.35 seconds without hurdles and 57.51 seconds with hurdles, both at

. Her hurdling result was 0.01 seconds shy of qualification mark for the 2018 European Championships.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Slettum, Elisabeth 1986 births Living people Norwegian female sprinters Norwegian female hurdlers Olympic athletes for Norway Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Norwegian Athletics Championships winners Sportspeople from Stavanger Athletes from Rogaland 20th-century Norwegian women 20th-century Norwegian people 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen