Guðbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir (born 24 December 2001) is an Icelandic sprinter competing in the

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and

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. She won the gold medal in the 200m at the 2018 Youth Olympics Games. She claimed gold in the 100 m and bronze in the 200 m at the 2018 European Under-18 Championships. She won multiple Icelandic national titles both outdoors and indoors.

Career

Guðbjörg became for the first time Icelandic senior champion in 2016, competing in the

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. In June 2018, she won the silver medal in the

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at the Championships of the Small States of Europe in

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, Liechtenstein in a time of 23.61 seconds. In July, she claimed gold in the

with a time of 11.75 seconds and bronze in the 200 m at the European Under-18 Championships held in

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, Hungary. The same month, Guðbjörg became the Icelandic 200 m champion for the first time. In October, she competed in the 200 m event at the

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, winning the gold medal. Guðbjörg won the 100 m and 200 m at the

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staged in

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, Montenegro. In 2021, she was selected for the

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Second League events held in June in

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, Bulgaria. She finished third in the 200 m at the

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Grand Prix in Sweden the same month. Also in June, under the universality rule within the Olympic qualifying criteria which allows smaller nations with developing sports programs to send representatives to the competition, Guðbjörg was confirmed as being selected for the delayed

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, but she did not compete at the event. In January 2023, she twice set a new national indoor record over the

, first lowering it to 7.43 and then to 7.35 seconds. She was subsequently selected to compete at the

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held in March in

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* 2001 births Living people 21st-century Icelandic sportswomen Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games competitors for Iceland Gudbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir Gudbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir Youth Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) {{Iceland-athletics-bio-stub