Nationality Dutch Role Athlete Height 1.79 m | Weight 65 kg Name Dafne Schippers | |
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Dafne schippers wins the women s 200m european athletics championships 2014
Dafne Schippers ( [ˈdɑfnə ˈsxɪpərs]; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch track and field athlete. She competes primarily in the sprints, having previously participated in the heptathlon. She is the 2015 and 2017 World Champion and won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres.
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- Dafne schippers wins the women s 200m european athletics championships 2014
- Dafne schippers 10 90 winner women s 100m final european athletics championships amsterdam 2016
- Early life
- Career
- Personal bests
- References
Schippers holds the European record in the 200 m with a time of 21.63 s and is the third-fastest woman of all time at this distance.
Dafne schippers 10 90 winner women s 100m final european athletics championships amsterdam 2016
Early life
Dafne Schippers was born on 15 June 1992 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She started competing in athletics at the age of 9.
Career
Schippers won gold medals in the heptathlon at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships. Two years later, she won gold in the 100 m and bronze in the long jump at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships.
In 2011 at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, she broke the Dutch national record in the 200 m in the heats before finishing 9th in the semifinals, missing the final by 0.04 seconds. She is co-record holder in the 4 × 100 m relay.
At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Schippers won the bronze medal in the heptathlon. She became the first Dutch woman to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships.
She improved the 200 m record during the heptathlon at the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, her time of 22.35 being one of the best 200 m performances ever in a heptathlon.
Schippers won gold medals at the European championships of 2014 in the 100 m and the 200 m. Her success at the 2014 European Athletics Championships prompted discussion over her long-term prospects and whether she should focus on sprinting, or continue her career in the heptathlon.
In June 2015 Schippers announced via Twitter that she would focus on sprinting in the run-up to the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
At the World Championships in Beijing Schippers won the silver medal in the 100 m and gold in the 200 m. Her 200 m winning time of 21.63 seconds was a new European record and made her the third fastest woman in history over that distance.
She won the 2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres in Amsterdam in 10.90, by 3 tenths of a second. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she won the silver medal in the 200 m and finished fifth in the 100 m final.
The Dafne Schippersbrug (Dafne Schippers Bridge) in Utrecht, where Schippers grew up, was opened in April 2017, and named in her honour.