Kitty Friele Faye
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| Full name | Kitty Augusta Friele Faye | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 August 2002 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Pole vault: 4.65m (Aachen, 2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kitty Augusta Friele Faye (born 17 August 2002) is a Norwegian pole vaulter. She was a silver medalist at the 2025 World University Games and represented Norway at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.[1]
Biography
From Bergen, she is a member of Fana IL Athletics club where her father Didrik Friele Faye is head of athletics.[2]
She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland with a clearance of 4.40 metres, to finish third behind Frenchwoman Marie-Julie Bonnin and Belgian Elien Vekemans.[3][4][5]
She won the silver medal at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany with a 4.50 metres clearance.[6][7] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, without advancing to the final.[8][9]
She won the pole vault competition at the Fana stavhoppgalla, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger meeting in Bergen, on 3 January 2026, defending her title from the previous year, winning on countback from Hanga Klekner.[10] In June 2026, she cleared 4.60m to win on the World Athletics Continental Tour in Hof, Bavaria.[11] In August, she competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England.[12]
References
- ↑ "Kitty Friele Faye". World Athletics. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
- ↑ "Has brought out 16 top athletes from their own backyard". Fanaposten.no. 29 November 2021. Retrieved 15 Sep 2025.
- ↑ "Sasha Zhoya, Marie-Julie Bonnin and Simon Gore titled at the European U23 Championships". lequipe.fr. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ↑ "French gold rush on the penultimate evening in Espoo 2023". Euroepan Athletics. 15 July 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
- ↑ "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
- ↑ "Elien Vekemans wins gold in pole vault at Summer World University Games". Brussels Times. 25 July 2025. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
- ↑ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. 26 July 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
- ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 15 Sep 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ↑ "Norges tropp til VM friidrett 2025". sportsidioten.no. September 1, 2025. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ↑ "Kitty Friele Faye Wins in Bergen: Fana stavhoppgalla Results". World-Track. 3 Jan 2026. Retrieved 6 Jan 2026.
- ↑ Mills, Steven (28 Jun 2026). "Doroshchuk equals world lead with 2.33m clearance". European Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 14 August 2026. Retrieved 14 August 2026.