Marissa Damink (born 24 October 1995) is a Dutch middle distance runner. She has won multiple Dutch national titles over

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

Career

In February 2022, she won the Dutch Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn over 1500 metres. the following year, defending her title at the same event she was runner-up to

Maureen Koster Maureen Koster (; born 3 July 1992) is a Dutch middle-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running events. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague. She was bor ...

. In March 2023, she competed in the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul over 1500 metres. In June 2023, she finished tenth in the 1500 metres at the

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in Silesia. In July 2023, she won the Dutch Athletics Championships 1500 metres in

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

. She finished tenth in the road mile at the

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Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

. In February 2024, she won the Dutch Athletics Indoor Championship titles in Appeldoorn both over 1500 metres and 3000 metres. In May 2024, she lowered her personal best for the 1500 metres to 4:04.84 in

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

, Italy. In June 2024, she competed at the European Athletics Championships in Rome.

Personal life

From Roosendaal, she was a keen hockey player before focusing on athletics. She attended

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...

where she studied psychology and technology.

References

1995 births Living people Dutch female middle-distance runners Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships winners Sportspeople from Roosendaal 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub