Remona Fransen (born November 11, 1985) is a Dutch

athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

, specialising in multi-eventing disciplines. At the

2011 European Indoor Championships in Athletics The 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from 4 to 6 March 2011. 577 athletes representing 46 countries competed at the championships. Twenty-six track and field events we ...

in Paris, Fransen won her first major international medal in the

pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) ( gr, πένταθλον). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of t ...

with a points total of 4,665. En route to her pentathlon

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, she broke the Dutch indoor record in the

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

with a height of 1.92 m.

Major competitive record

References

External links

Official website (translated)IAAF profile

Athletics Union athlete bio: Remona Fransen (translated)
1985 births Living people Dutch heptathletes Sportspeople from Dordrecht {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub