Sofie Dokter (; born 19 December 2002) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in the

combined events Combined track and field events are competitions in which athletes participate in a number of track and field events, earning points for their performance in each event, which adds to a total points score. Outdoors, the most common combined events ...

. She was a bronze medalist 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 ...

at the 2024 World Indoor Championships. She was a silver medalist in the heptathlon at the

2021 European Athletics U20 Championships The 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships were the 26th edition of the biennial European U20 athletics championships. They were held in Tallinn, Estonia from 15 July to 18 July. The 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships had been held in ...

and the

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. In 2024 became a three time national champion in the pentathlon. In 2022, she was also national champion in the heptathlon.

Early life and background

Dokter was born in

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. Her father Erik and mother Hendrike were keen proponents of athletics. Sofie first took part in an athletics event aged four and first attended athletics club aged six. Her younger sister Julia Dokter is also a track and field athlete. Dokter is a student at Wageningen University as of 2022.

Career

2021

In her last junior year, Dokter was a silver medalist in the heptathlon at the

held in Tallinn.

2022

In her first

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year, Dokter became 2022 Dutch national champion indoors and out. That year, she was named ‘rookie of the meet’ at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, where she broke the 6,000 point barrier for the first time in the heptathlon. Dokter was selected to represent the Netherlands at the

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where she competed in the

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

. Of the three Dutch women who started, she was the only woman who finished the event, finishing thirteenth overall.

2023

In February 2023 Dokter scored 4603 in the pentathlon to win the Dutch national title. She became an automatic qualifier for the

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held in Istanbul. She finished fourth overall at the end of the

. In May 2023 she finished seventh overall in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis. In July 2023, she won silver at the

in Espoo, Finland in the Heptathlon. She was selected for the

2023 World Athletics Championships The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( hu, 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, are scheduled to be held from 19 August to 27 August 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The city of Budapes ...

in Budapest, and finished eleventh in the heptathlon.

2024

In February 2024, Dokter won the Dutch Indoor Combined Events Championships in Apeldoorn, with 4553 points. On 1 March 2024, she was a bronze medalist at the

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. Her tally included a huge personal best in the final event, the 800 metres of 2:11.89 min and a final tally of 4.571 points. In June 2024, she finished in fifth place overall in the heptathlon at the

2024 European Athletics Championships The 26th European Athletics Championships will be held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. It will be the third time Italy has staged this sporting the event after the inaugural 1934 edition in Turin, for men only, and t ...

in Rome, and in August she achieved sixth place overall in the Paris

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with a new personal best of 6,452 points.

Personal bests

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.

Individual events

Combined events

Team events

References

External links

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Sofie Dokter
at Atletiek.nl {{DEFAULTSORT:Dokter, Sofie 2002 births 21st-century Dutch women Dutch Athletics Championships winners Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships winners Dutch heptathletes Living people Sportspeople from Groningen (city) World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for the Netherlands