1. Dafne Schippers 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.
16 Facts About Dafne Schippers
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Dafne Schippers was European Athlete of the Year in 2014 and 2015.
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In 2023, Dafne Schippers announced her retirement as a professional athlete.
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Dafne Schippers was born on 15 June 1992 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Dafne Schippers started competing in athletics at the age of nine at the track and field club Hellas in Utrecht.
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Dafne Schippers originally competed in the heptathlon and won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships.
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In 2012, Dafne Schippers was invited to participate in the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria, where she finished fifth.
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Dafne Schippers competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, finishing fifth at the 200 metres.
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At the subsequent 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Dafne Schippers won the bronze medal in the heptathlon, collapsing over the line after taking a massive seven seconds off her personal best in the 800 metres to see off Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Claudia Rath for the bronze.
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Dafne Schippers became the first Dutch woman to win a medal in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships.
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Dafne Schippers finished third at the hepthatlon with 6545 points, a new national record.
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In June 2015, Dafne Schippers announced via Twitter that she would focus on sprinting in the run-up to the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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Reider suddenly left the National Sports Centre Papendal in the Netherlands in November 2018, and Dafne Schippers returned to her first coach, Bart Bennema.
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In September 2023, Dafne Schippers announced her retirement as a professional athlete.
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Dafne Schippers was a commentator for World Athletics at the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, United Kingdom.
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Dafne Schippers received the Membership of Merit of the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation in 2016.