Karsten Warholm: World Record holder tagged the 'craziest' track athlete after training in -21 Celsius weather
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World 400m Hurdles record holder Karsten Warholm has done the craziest thing seen of an athlete after training bare-chested in -21 degree Celsius weather.
The Norwegian Viking shared a video online showing him running on ice in an ice-cold weather.
If they gave an award to the craziest athlete of the year, then Karsten Warholm would win it every time!
— Owen M (@_OwenM_) January 6, 2024
Only he would do something like this in -21 Celsius (-5.8 Fahrenheit)!!! I also noticed the Red Bull at the start as well 😂🤣ðŸ˜
🎥 @kwarholm pic.twitter.com/iX5kReoXuV
This has left fans and athletes in awe of how much he trains hard and how far he goes to be one of the world's best athletes.
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Warholm is a track legend and superstar in his home country, as he has achieved many first-time feats in his young career, as well as winning several global medals.
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Summary of Karsten Warholm's career
He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic champion, a three-time world champion, and the World Record (WR) holder in the men's 400m Hurdles event.
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Warholm won the world titles in 2017, 2019, and 2023, in addition to the 2018 and 2022 European championships titles. Also, he is a two-time Diamond League 400m Hurdles champion and was crowned the 2021 World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year.
Karsten Warholm's World Records
The former decathlete first broke the 400m Hurdles WR on July 1, 2021, in his first race of the season at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo, where he smashed Kevin Young's 1992 WR with a time of 46.70s.
The following month, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Warholm won the gold medal in a jaw-dropping 45.94s, breaking his world record by over three-quarters of a second, thus becoming the first man in history to go sub-46 seconds.
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