Nadine Visser (born 9 February 1995) is a Dutch athlete. She originally specialised in the heptathlon, but eventually switched to high hurdles (
60 m hurdles
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indoor, and
100 m hurdles
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Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch track and field athlete. She competes primarily in the sprints, having previously participated in the heptathlon. She is the 2015 and 2017 World Champion and won silver at the 2016 Summer Olym ...
.
Career
Visser's first sports were
gymnastics
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Trabzon
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, winning
gold
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in both the 100 m hurdles and the
4 × 100 metres relay
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Barcelona
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, placing eleventh with 5447 points. In 2013, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at the European Junior Championships in Rieti, scoring 5774 points; in the heptathlon's opening event, the 100 m hurdles, she ran 13.21 (+1.5) to break
Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch track and field athlete. She competes primarily in the sprints, having previously participated in the heptathlon. She is the 2015 and 2017 World Champion and won silver at the 2016 Summer Olym ...
's Dutch junior record from 2011.
During the 2014 indoor season Visser set Dutch indoor junior records in both the
60 m hurdles
60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds (Susanna Ka ...
and the pentathlon; , her pentathlon score of 4268 points ranks her ninth on the world all-time junior list. Outdoors, Visser competed in the
Götzis
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Events
The town is well known for its annual hypo-combined events meeting, the so-called Hyp ...
Hypo-Meeting
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100 m hurdles
The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is ...
, winning bronze medals in both events; in the hurdles she broke 13 seconds for the first time, her time of 12.99 (+1.9) setting a new Dutch junior and under-23 record. Visser qualified for her first senior European Championships that summer, representing the Netherlands in the 100 m hurdles; she ran 13.12 (-2.0) in the heats and was narrowly eliminated from the semi-finals.
2015
In 2015 Visser became Dutch senior champion for the first time, winning the 60 m hurdles in 8.12 at the national indoor championships in
Apeldoorn
Apeldoorn (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands. It is located about 60 km east of Utrecht, 60 km west of Enschede, 25 km north of Arnhem and 35 km south of Zwolle. Th ...
Prague
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, despite not quite meeting the national federation's qualification standard. In Prague she qualified from the heats on time, but fell in her semi-final and was eliminated. Outdoors, Visser improved her national under-23 hurdles record to 12.97 (+1.4) at the
FBK Games
The FBK Games is an annual track and field event at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion in Hengelo, Netherlands as part of the IAAF World Challenge Meetings. It was first organized in 1981. Its name honours Fanny Blankers-Koen, who won four gold med ...
in
Hengelo
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on May 24; the following week, she placed 5th in the Hypo-Meeting with a personal best 6467 points. Before the 2015 European U23 Championships in
Tallinn
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Visser had reached the qualifying standard in five events ( 100 m, 200 m, 100 m hurdles,
long jump
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and heptathlon); she chose to compete in the hurdles and the long jump, winning a bronze in the hurdles with a time of 13.01 (-0.2).
At the 2015 European U23 Championships Visser won a bronze in the 100 m hurdles. She went on to compete at the
2015 World Championships in Athletics
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in
Beijing
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(China), finishing 8th at the heptathlon. She was also the start runner of the Dutch 4x100 meters relay team with
Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch track and field athlete. She competes primarily in the sprints, having previously participated in the heptathlon. She is the 2015 and 2017 World Champion and won silver at the 2016 Summer Olym ...
,
Naomi Sedney
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and
Jamile Samuel
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Décastar
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heptathlon in
Talence
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Amsterdam
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, she was eliminated in the semifinals. At the Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics heptathlon in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), she finished at a disappointing 19th place.
Heptathlon or high hurdles
At the 2017 European U23 Championships she won a gold at the 100 m hurdles. "It was going well until the eighth hurdle and then it became kind of messy," said Visser. "But I am happy to finish first." She took a 2nd place at the Mehrkampf-Meeting in
Ratingen
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(Germany), behind Carolin Schäfer. In August 2017, Visser finished seventh with 6370 points at the
World Championships
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in London (UK). She won a gold at the 100 m hurdles at the
2017 Summer Universiade
The 2017 Summer Universiade (), officially known as the XXIX Summer Universiade ( zh, t=第二十九屆夏季世界大學運動會, p=Dì èrshíjiǔ jiè xiàjì shìjiè dàxué yùndònghuì) and commonly called Taipei 2017 ( zh, t=台北2 ...
for university athletes.
The 2018 season started with a bronze at the World Indoor Championships 60m hurdles. She had clocked 7.83 to win her semi-final, obliterating Marjan Olyslager’s Dutch record of 7.89 which had stood since 1989.After world indoor bronze, Visser drifting towards life as a hurdler International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 17 June 2018 In consultation with her coach Bart Bennema, Visser had to make a decision about her future: the heptathlon or high hurdles. With the 2018 European championships in Berlin on the doorstep and given her chances of victory on the hurdles at that event, she decided to concentrate on hurdling. NOS News, 15 March 2018 In June 2018, at the Diamond League in Stockholm she ran a new national record on the 100 m hurdles in 12.71, breaking the almost 30-year old record of Olyslager from 1989.Visser: superblij met record, benieuwd wat ik nog meer kan NOS News, 10 June 2018 She finished fourth at the
2018 European Athletics Championships
The 2018 European Athletics Championships were held in Berlin, Germany, from 6 to 12 August 2018. The championships were part of the first European Championships with other events happening in the United Kingdom.
For the second Championships in ...
in 12.88.
In 2019, she started with winning the 60 m hurdles' title at the
2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held between 1 and 3 March 2019 at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the second time this event was held in the city after the 1990 edition and the third time it was held in th ...
. At the
2019 World Athletics Championships
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in
Doha
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