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Tonje Angelsen (born 17 January 1990) is a
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high jumper. Angelsen was considered a promising high jumper when she set a Norwegian age record at 1.82 m 16 years old (2006). Her career stalled somewhat because of injury until 2009. In 2010 and 2011 she qualified to several international championships but did not make it to the finals. In January 2012 she managed a personal best of 1.93 m indoors. At meeting in
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on 24 May she jumped to a new personal best outdoors of 1.95 m which was also the qualifying height for the 2012 Summer Olympics in
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. On 28 June 2012 she won a silver medal at the
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in Helsinki by jumping a height of 1.97 m, a new personal best.


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1990 births Living people Norwegian female high jumpers Sportspeople from Trondheim Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Norway European Athletics Championships medalists Norwegian Athletics Championships winners World Athletics Championships athletes for Norway {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub