Nikita den Boer (born 8 January 1991) is a Dutch

wheelchair racer Wheelchair racing is the racing of wheelchairs in track and road races. Wheelchair racing is open to athletes with any qualifying type of disability, amputees, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and partially sighted (when combined with another ...

. She won the bronze medal in the women's marathon T54 event at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

held in Tokyo, Japan. In 2020, she won the women's wheelchair race at the London Marathon in London, United Kingdom.

Career

In 2014, she became an ambassador of the Johan Cruyff Foundation which aims to improve sport opportunities for children with disabilities. She finished in 8th place in the women's wheelchair race at the

2019 London Marathon The 2019 London Marathon was the 39th running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on 28 April. The elite men's race was won by Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, who took his fourth London Marathon victory in a time of ...

in London, United Kingdom. In the same year, she broke the Dutch national women's 5000 metres T54 at a race in Switzerland, and finished in 4th place in the women's 5000 metres T54 event at the

2019 World Para Athletics Championships The 2019 World Para Athletics Championships was a Paralympic track and field event organised by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. It was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 7 to 15 November 2019 ...

held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was her first race at a global tournament. Den Boer won the

2020 London Marathon The 2020 London Marathon was the 40th running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on 4 October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the race was postponed from 26 April and only allowed elite participants; th ...

in October 2020. As a result, she qualified to represent the Netherlands at the

in Tokyo, Japan. In 2021, she won the silver medal in the women's 1500 metres T54 and women's 5000 metres T54 events at the World Para Athletics European Championships held in Bydgoszcz, Poland. She also won the bronze medal in the women's 800 metres T54 event. At the

in Tokyo, Japan, she won the bronze medal in the women's marathon T54 event. She also finished in 4th place in the women's 5000 metres T54 event with a new personal best of 11:15.37. She finished in 7th place in the women's 1500 metres T54 event.

Personal life

She lives in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

, Netherlands.

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