Dafne Schippers
Dutch track and field athlete (born 1992)
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- Dafne Schippers ( pronounced [ˈdɑfnə ˈsxɪpərs] ; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting and the combined events.
- 63 seconds, making her the sixth-fastest woman of all time at this distance.
- Schippers was the 200 m world champion at both the 2015 and the 2017 World Athletics Championships, the silver medalist in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 200 m champion in the 2016 Diamond League.
- She won twenty-two Dutch titles (outdoor and indoor).
- In 2023, Schippers announced her retirement as a professional athlete.
Dafne Schippers (pronounced [ˈdɑfnə ˈsxɪpərs]; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting and the combined events. She holds the European record in the 200 metres with a time of 21.63 seconds, making her the sixth-fastest woman of all time at this distance. She also holds the Dutch records in the 100 metres and long jump, and shares the Dutch records in the 60 metres indoor and 4 × 100 metres relay.
Schippers was the 200 m world champion at both the 2015 and the 2017 World Athletics Championships, the silver medalist in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 200 m champion in the 2016 Diamond League. Additionally, she won two silver and two bronze medals at world championships—heptathlon bronze in 2013; 100 m silver in 2015; indoor 60 m silver in 2016, and 100 m bronze in 2017—and five (outdoor and indoor) European titles. She won twenty-two Dutch titles (outdoor and indoor).
She was European Athlete of the Year in 2014 and 2015.
In 2023, Schippers announced her retirement as a professional athlete.
Early life
Dafne Schippers was born on 15 June 1992 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
She started competing in athletics at the age of nine at the track and field club Hellas in Utrecht.
Career
Heptathlon
Schippers originally competed in the heptathlon and won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships. At the 2010 World Junior Championships she also won a bronze in the 4 × 100 metres relay with her teammates Loreanne Kuhurima, Eva Lubbers and Jamile Samuel.
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