European U23 bronze medallist Kitty Friele Faye starts as the home favourite in the women’s pole vault competition at the Fana stavhoppgalla World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger meeting at Fana Stadion in Bergen, Norway, on Saturday, 3 January. Follow live results here
Faye enters this weekend’s home competition among the top entrants with a personal best of 4.55 metres, set last February in Roubaix. The 23-year-old Norwegian indoor national record holder cleared 4.32m in this competition last season, and she will be aiming to start her 2026 campaign on a positive note.
The reigning World University Games silver medallist should face strong competition from Hanga Klekner of Hungary and Kajsa Roth of Sweden, who were also contestants at the World Athletics Championships last September.
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Klekner enters Saturday’s contest as the top entrant with an indoor personal best of 4.56m and an outdoor PB of 4.60m. The 11-time Hungarian national champion is coming off one of her best-ever seasons, where she achieved three of her overall best performances, while setting three national records during the campaign.
Roth, who was in the same qualifying group as Faye at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, cleared 4.45m alongside Faye, with the pair both exiting the competition in the early stages after tying for 17th place.
Roth comes into this clash with a personal best of 4.40m. She is the two-time back-to-back Swedish national champion outdoors and the national indoor champion in 2025.
Fleur Hooyberghs of Belgium and Beate Pott of Sweden are also notable starters in the women’s competition.
On the men’s side, William Asker of Sweden starts as one of the top entrants at the 2025 Fana stavhoppgalla in Bergen. The 21-year-old comes in with a personal best of 5.52m and an outdoor PB of 5.55m. The field also features Sweden’s Linus Jonsson, the European U18 Championships bronze medallist in 2022 and two-time national champion, who owns an outdoor personal best of 5.50m, as well as Sweden’s Axel Rogo, the 2025 European Junior Champion.
