Embla Matilde Njerve

Embla Matilde Njerve

DOB: February 22, 2007

Height: 5' 11½" (181 cm)

"Embla Matilde Njerve, born [on] February 22, 2007 in Bergen, is a Norwegian pole vaulter. She began vaulting at age ten and won her first senior national indoor title in February 2024.

Exceptionally talented, she earned bronze at the 2023 European Youth Olympic Games and silver at the 2024 European U18 Championships, along with the Nordic U20 title.

In August 2024, she cleared 4.30m in Oslo, breaking Norwegian U18 and U20 records. She also set a new indoor U20 record of 4.28m in January 2025. In May 2025, she announced she would miss the outdoor season due to mononucleosis [glandular fever]. Her father, Sigurd Njerve, was an Olympic triple jumper, and her 2024 videos topped 100 million views."

"Sigurd [had] been her coach... for many years. After [several] years of pole vaulting technical help from Oleksandr Gerysamenko, she is now training with Eirik Dolve and the pole vaulting community in Fana IL."

She has a page on Wikipedia

Embla at Fana Stadium, posing with her father Sigurd in 2 of the images:

Assorted images from the WWW, some small and some HQ (the first I cleaned of quantization artifacts), with 3 of her airborn:

A recent interview, in Norsk:

Embla - Norwegian Interview (2025).mp4

Final few web finds:

I watch track and field, she isn't just a beautiful woman, but a terrific athlete. Pole vault is a hard sport to perform.

"Pole vault is a hard sport to perform." Good comment. At high school the pole vault and the steeplechase were two track and field events they (wisely) never attempted to teach us. Almost everyone can sprint and shot put, but vaulting required the simultaneous application of skill and power. Which reminds me, I should post some video embeds to accompany the still images I posted.

It's a bird, it's a plane... No, it's just Embla gracefully vaulting through the sky.

If she's 5' 11.5", is Sigurd 7 feet tall?