Ingvill MÃ¥kestad Bovim

Ingvill Måkestad Bovim (born Måkestad; born August 7, 1981 in Odda ) is a Norwegian middle distance runner.

Måkestad Bovim occupied in the 800 - meter race in fourth place at the Athletics Junior Championships in 1997 in Ljubljana, ranked eighth at the Track World Junior Championships in 1998 in Annecy and again in fourth place at the Athletics Junior Championships 1999 in Riga. In the U23 European Athletics Championships 2003 in Bydgoszcz, she won the silver medal in the 1500 meter race.

However, afterwards Måkestad Bovim needed several years to become established internationally and in the adult area. The European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, they still failed in the 800 - meter race in the first round. A few weeks later she was over this distance for the first time in her career under two minutes. With 1:59,82 min, they ran in a competition in Zagreb Norwegian record. In the Indoor Athletics Championships 2011 in Paris, she missed more than 1500 meters into the finals. But in the same year she reached her first major final at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu. In the 1500 -meter run where she finished sixth.