Karsten Warholm
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Karsten Warholm Net Worth

Hurdler
🏅 AthleticsDiamond LeagueNorway
Declared net worth (2025 Norwegian tax list)
NOK 35.2M
Declared on Norway's 2025 tax list · Olympic 400 m hurdles champion 2021 · three-time world champion
About $3.8M in US dollars (ECB rate, November 5, 2026).
Figure published in 2026. Latest Norwegian tax list estimate we could find.
Source: Finansavisen, Pengekrakk for idrettstopper (Norwegian tax lists, income years 2024-2025: net wealth, income and tax), November 2026. Updated November 6, 2026.
How to read this: the headline is the net wealth (nettoformue) recorded for Karsten Warholm on Norway’s official tax list for the 2025 income year, as printed by a national newspaper. It is what the Norwegian Tax Administration assessed from the tax return: assets minus debts, at tax values. Homes are counted at a fraction of their market price and shares at a discount, and money held in a personal holding company shows up only through the value of its shares, so the real figure is usually higher. This is an official tax figure, not a journalist’s estimate, and we show it as published. The figure was published in NOK; the US dollar amount next to it is our simple conversion at the European Central Bank reference rate of November 5, 2026, not a separate estimate.

Karsten Warholm's net worth over time

2022NOK 4.6MTax list 2022
2023NOK 17MTax list 2023
2024NOK 23.9MTax list 2024
2025NOK 35.2MTax list 2025

Net wealth on the official Norwegian tax lists for each income year, as printed by Finansavisen. Figures are in Norwegian kroner, at tax values.

Where the money comes from

Prize money and meet feesSponsorshipsProperty in Oslo
Net wealth, 2025 tax listNOK 35.2 million, up from NOK 23.9 million in 2024 (Finansavisen)
Finansavisen
Taxable income, 2025About NOK 14.6 million, almost unchanged from NOK 14.9 million in 2024
Finansavisen
HomeBought a home in Madserud, Oslo, for NOK 27 million after his 2021 Olympic year (Finansavisen)
Finansavisen

Karsten Warholm is a Norwegian hurdler and one of the greatest 400 m hurdlers of all time. He won the Olympic title in Tokyo in 2021 with a world record of 45.94 seconds, three world titles in 2017, 2019 and 2023, and several European titles. He was voted World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year in 2021.

Norway's official tax list for the 2025 income year records his net wealth at NOK 35.2 million, about $3.8 million at the November 5, 2026 exchange rate. Finansavisen printed the figure on November 3, 2026, up from NOK 23.9 million a year earlier.

What the tax list shows

Finansavisen's November 2026 table shows Warholm's net wealth rising from NOK 23.9 million in 2024 to NOK 35.2 million in 2025, while income stayed around NOK 14.6 to 14.9 million. Earlier tables put him at NOK 4.6 million in 2022 after buying an Oslo home, then NOK 17.0 million in 2023.

The climb in taxable wealth tracks several strong Diamond League seasons even when a World Championships medal did not come in 2025.

Career at a glance

Warholm started as a multi-event athlete and won the octathlon at the 2013 World Youth Championships before settling on the 400 m and the 400 m hurdles. His breakthrough came with the world title in London in 2017, when he was 21.

His rivalry with the American Rai Benjamin has produced some of the fastest hurdles races ever run, including the 2021 Olympic final, where both men went under the old world record. Known for his explosive starts and loud celebrations, he remains one of the most popular athletes in Norway.

About this figure

Norway publishes every taxpayer's income, net wealth and tax paid each year, and newspapers comb the lists for famous names. Finansavisen printed Warholm's figures for the 2025 income year. Net wealth on the list is the figure the Tax Administration assessed from his tax return, assets minus debts.

Tax values are lower than market values, especially for homes and shares, so the figure understates what Warholm would be worth if everything were sold. We show it in Norwegian kroner, as published, with a rough US dollar conversion at the November 5, 2026 exchange rate. Income figures mentioned on this page are earnings for one year, not wealth.

Career and money timeline

  1. 2017

    Wins his first world title in the 400 m hurdles in London.

  2. 2019

    Retains the world title in Doha.

  3. 2021

    Breaks a 29-year-old world record, then wins Olympic gold in Tokyo in 45.94 seconds.

  4. 2023

    Wins a third world title, a first in the event.

  5. 2024

    Takes Olympic silver in Paris.

  6. 2025

    Finansavisen prints his 2024 tax list figures: NOK 23.9 million in net wealth.

Karsten Warholm net worth FAQ

What is Karsten Warholm's net worth?

Norway's official tax list for the 2025 income year records net wealth of NOK 35.2 million for Karsten Warholm, as printed by Finansavisen on November 3, 2026. That is about $3.8 million at the November 5, 2026 exchange rate. The figure is up from NOK 23.9 million on the 2024 list.

Where do these numbers come from?

From Norway's public tax lists. Finansavisen printed Warholm's 2024 and 2025 figures on November 3, 2026 (net wealth NOK 23.9 million then NOK 35.2 million; income about NOK 14.9 million then NOK 14.6 million). Every figure on this page links to its source below.

How much does Karsten Warholm earn?

He reported taxable income of NOK 14.9 million for 2024, the same as in 2023, according to Finansavisen. That is income for one year, not wealth.

Sources

  1. Finansavisen, Pengekrakk for idrettstopper (Norwegian tax lists, income years 2024-2025: net wealth, income and tax) (November 3, 2026)
  2. Finansavisen, Knallår for idrettstoppene (Norwegian tax lists, income years 2022-2024: net wealth, income and tax) (September 30, 2025)
  3. Background facts: Wikipedia, Karsten Warholm (accessed November 6, 2026). Used for career facts only, never for money figures.

Photo: Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Every number on this page comes from the named source next to it. Totals and percentages are simple sums of those published figures. We never fill in missing years with our own guesses. How we handle estimates.