{{Short description|Norwegian javelin thrower (born 1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{infobox sportsperson | name = Trine Hattestad | birth_name = Elsa Katrine Solberg | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|18 April 1966}} | birth_place = Lørenskog, Norway | height = 173 cm | weight = 76 kg | country = {{NOR}} | sport = Track and field | event = Javelin throw | pb = '''NR''' 69.48 m (2000) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's athletics}} {{MedalCountry | {{NOR}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalGold|2000 Sydney|Javelin}} {{MedalBronze|1996 Atlanta|Javelin}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalGold |1993 Stuttgart|Javelin}} {{MedalGold |1997 Athens|Javelin}} {{MedalBronze |1999 Seville|Javelin}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalGold |1994 Helsinki|Javelin}} }}
'''Elsa Katrine Hattestad''' (née '''Solberg'''; born 18 April 1966) is a retired Norwegian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. During her career, she was a European, World, and Olympic Champion, and broke the world record twice.<ref name=":1">{{Citation |last=Fretland |first=Frode |title=Trine Hattestad |date=2025-03-25 |work=Store norske leksikon |url=https://snl.no/Trine_Hattestad |access-date=2025-04-10 |language=no |last2=Bryhn |first2=Rolf}}</ref> Her personal best, set in 2000, of 69.48 m is the Norwegian record. It also ranks her sixth on the overall list.
==Career== Hattestad made her international debut at a match between Norway, Sweden, and Finland.<ref name=":1" /> She competed at the 1981 European Junior Championships, finishing fifth.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-08-21 |title=World Junior Athletics History |url=http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/EUJC/EUJC1981.html#21093 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912153753/http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/EUJC/EUJC1981.html#21093 |archive-date=2011-09-12 |website=World Junior Athletics History}}</ref> The following year, at the age of just 16, she competed in the European Championships for seniors, though she did not qualify for the final.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women Javelin Throw European Championships 1982 Athens, Greece |url=http://todor66.com/athletics/europe/1982/Women_Javelin_Throw.html |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=todor66.com}}</ref> She won her first national title in 1983 and would go on to win a total of 14.<ref name=":1" />
She participated in both the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
In 1989, she was suspended after a positive doping test; however, her suspension was overturned, and she was cleared of doping.<ref name=":1" /> She argued that her hormonal contraception had caused the positive test and sued the Norwegian Athletics Association for loss of earnings during her suspension.<ref name=":2" />
At the 1992 Summer Olympics, she came in fifth. In 1993, she won her first major international title, the World Championships in Stuttgart as well as the IAAF Golden Four. The next year, she added the 1994 European title.<ref name=":1" />
After giving birth to her second child in 1995, she competed at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, where she won the bronze medal. The following year, she won a second World title at the 1997 World Championships.<ref name=":1" />
At the 1999 World Championships, she lost the title again, finishing third, but in 2000 she won the only title missing in her career with a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2000-09-30 |title=Hattestad finally wins javelin gold |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/xArchive/Archive/Hattestad-finally-wins-javelin-gold-20000930 |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=News24 |language=en-US}}</ref>
During her career, Hattestad had many injuries; she experienced fractures in both arms and required seven elbow surgeries.<ref name=":1" />
==Personal life== Hattestad's parents were both handball players, and she took up the sport herself at age 6 and played for a 2nd division team.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Kirkebøen |first=Stein Erik |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2009070201083?page=65 |title=Idrettsjenter : veien til topps |publisher=Universitetsforlaget |year=1986 |isbn=8200357570 |location=Oslo |pages=65-70 |language=no |trans-title=Sports girls: the road to the top |chapter=Trine Solberg: En van lig jente med en uvanlig kastarm |trans-chapter=Trine Solberg: An ordinary girl with an unusual throwing arm}}</ref> She began athletics when she was twelve; initially she competed in shot put, but she found javelin throwing more interesting.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />
She has four children with her former husband Anders Hattestad. They divorced in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Solberg |first=Julie |date=2017-06-20 |title=Den tidligere OL-stjerna bekrefter bruddet. Skilles etter 28 år som mann og kone |trans-title=The former Olympic star confirms the breakup. Divorcing after 28 years as husband and wife |url=https://www.dagbladet.no/kjendis/den-tidligere-ol-stjerna-bekrefter-bruddet-skilles-etter-28-ar-som-mann-og-kone/67725080 |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=www.dagbladet.no |language=nb-NO}}</ref>
==Competition record== <nowiki>*</nowiki>All results with the old model javelin unless noted. {| {{AchievementTable}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing {{NOR}} |- |1983 |European Junior Championships |Schwechat, Austria |bgcolor=silver|2nd |61.40 m |- |1984 |Olympic Games |Los Angeles, United States |5th |64.52 m |- |1986 |European Championships |Stuttgart, West Germany |9th |59.52 m |- |1987 |World Championships |Rome, Italy |24th (q) |55.30 m |- |1988 |Olympic Games |Seoul, South Korea |18th (q) |58.82 m |- |1991 |World Championships |Tokyo, Japan |5th |63.36 m |- |1992 |Olympic Games |Barcelona, Spain |5th |63.54 m |- |1993 |World Championships |Stuttgart, Germany |bgcolor=gold|1st |69.18 m |- |rowspan=2|1994 |Goodwill Games |St. Petersburg, Russia |bgcolor=gold|1st |65.74 m |- |European Championships |Helsinki, Finland |bgcolor=gold|1st |68.00 m |- |1996 |Olympic Games |Atlanta, United States |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |64.98 m |- |1997 |World Championships |Athens, Greece |bgcolor=gold|1st |68.78 m |- |1998 |European Championships |Budapest, Hungary |4th |63.16 m |- |1999 |World Championships |Seville, Spain |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |66.06 m<ref name=model>New model</ref> |- |2000 |Olympic Games |Sydney, Australia |bgcolor=gold|1st |68.91 m<ref name=model/> |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{World Athletics}} * {{Olympics.com profile}} * {{Olympedia}}
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