Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers was born in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 15th, 1992 and is the Runner. At the age of 31, Dafne Schippers biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Schippers sets the European record in the 200 meters in 21.63 seconds, and she is the sixth-quickest woman of all time at this distance. She holds the national record in the 100 m and is co-record holder in the 4 100 m relay.
Early life
Dafne Schippers was born in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on June 15, 1992. She began training in athletics at the age of nine at the track and field club Hellas in Utrecht.
Early career
Schippers began competing in the heptathlon and gained gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships. Loreanne Kuhurima, Eva Lubbers, and Jamile Samuel all earned bronze in the 4 100 meters relay at the 2010 World Junior Championships.
She set the Dutch national record in the 200 meters in the heats in 22.69, then placed ninth in the semifinals, missing the final by 0.04 seconds. In the heats, the 4 meter relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Anouk Hagen and Samuel) was disqualified, a national record of 43.44.
She was accepted to compete in the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Götzis (Austria), where she placed 5th. She also competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki (Finland). At the 200 meters, she came in 5th place. She had won her heat in 23.01 and posted the fastest semi-final time of 22.70, but it was disappointing. The Dutch 4x100 meters relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Eva Lubbers, and Samuel) came in second place in 42.80, a national record, behind the German team.
She earned her third position at the Hypo-Meeting Company in 6287 points a year later. In the long jump at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships, she took gold in the 100 m and bronze. Schippers claimed the bronze medal in the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, collapsing over the line after completing a remarkable seven seconds off her personal record in the 800 meters to face Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Claudia Rath for the bronze. She was the first Dutch woman to win a medal in the World Athletic Championships.
During the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, she set a new 200 m record, with her time of 22.35 being one of the fastest 200 m performances in a heptathlon. She came in third place at 6545 points, a new national record. The 4x100 meters relay team, one of the top contenders for the title, did not finish in the final due to a botched first baton change at the European Championships of 2014.