18 Facts About Anouk Vetter

Anouk Vetter won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Anouk Vetter took the gold medal at the 2016 European Championships.

Anouk Vetter is the Dutch record holder for the heptathlon with a score 6867 points, and won eight national titles.

Anouk Vetter was on born 4 February 1993 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Anouk Vetter was exposed to athletics at a very young age.

Anouk Vetter's father, Ronald Vetter, is a long-standing athletics coach and her mother, Gerda Vetter-Blokziel a two-time Dutch javelin champion.

Anouk Vetter failed to finish a heptathlon at either the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships, 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics and the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships.

Anouk Vetter won the Multistars Firenze Trofeo Zerneri Acciai, the opening meeting of the 2013 IAAF Combined Events Challenge with 5872 points.

Anouk Vetter's breakthrough came in 2014 when she improved her previous personal best by a massive 444 points to 6316 points at that year's prestigious Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria to place ninth.

In 2015, Anouk Vetter finished sixth at the Hypo-Meeting with a new personal best with 6458 points, and won the heptathlon at the Mehrkampf-Meeting in Ratingen, Germany.

Anouk Vetter started the 2016 season with an eighth place at the Hypo-Meeting.

Anouk Vetter started the 2017 outdoor season with a seventh place in Gotzis.

Anouk Vetter concluded the season with a win at the heptathlon at the Decastar in Talence, France.

At the 2018 Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Anouk Vetter finished fourth behind Nafissatou Thiam, Yorgelis Rodriguez and Erica Bougard.

Anouk Vetter did not finish the combined events competitions at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow, the Decastar in Talence and the World Championships in Doha.

In 2021, Anouk Vetter made her come back winning the silver medal at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan, with a new national record, behind Nafissatou Thiam who successfully defended her 2016 Olympic title.

Anouk Vetter led through the first day before Thiam and after world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson had to leave the competition due to an injury.

Anouk Vetter led the contest until the last event, when Thiam surpassed her.