The versatile athlete ran in a time of 51.57 seconds in the 400 meters indoors.
It is a new Norwegian indoor record for the distance. The record was set during a meeting in the Czech Ostrava on Tuesday evening.
Deleted Iuel record
This happens just ten days after the 20-year-old became the first Norwegian woman under 23 seconds in the 200 metres.
The old record was held by Amalie Iuel at 52.25, set in Bærum in 2020.
The time is only 54 hundredths slower than Jæger’s outdoor record of 51.03 which she set in Berlin last year. Only the Dutch Lieke Klaver was ahead of the Norwegian runner in Tuesday’s competition with a time of 50.54.
Took the WC requirement
The time was also below the requirement for the indoor WC in Glasgow on the first weekend in March of 51.60 and only 62 hundredths behind the outdoor requirement for this summer’s Olympics in Paris of 50.95.
The Aremark athlete, who before the race had a personal indoor record of 52.33, also improved Sweden’s Moa Hjelmer’s Nordic indoor record of 52.04, set in Gothenburg in 2013.
Jæger thus holds the Nordic indoor record for both 200 and 400 metres.