Dafne Schippers

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Dafne Schippers
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Personal information
Nationality Dutch
Born (1992-06-15) 15 June 1992 (age 31)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country  Netherlands
Sport Track and field
Event(s) Heptathlon
Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 100 m: 10.81 NR (2015)
200 m: 21.63 AR (2015)
800 m: 2:08.59 (2014)
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 0
World Championships 2 1 2
World Indoor Championships 0 1 0
European Championships 4 1 0
European Indoor Championships 1 0 0
Continental Cup 1 0 1
Total 8 4 3
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
60 m 1 1 0
100 m 3 1 2
200 m 3 2 0
4×100 m relay 1 1 1
Heptathlon 2 0 1
4×100 m relay 1 1 1
Long Jump 0 0 1
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 London 200 m
Silver medal – second place 2015 Beijing 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Moscow Heptathlon
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 100 m
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2016 Portland 60 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zürich 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zürich 200 m
Gold medal – first place 2016 Amsterdam 100 m
Gold medal – first place 2016 Amsterdam 4 × 100 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2012 Helsinki 4 × 100 m relay
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Prague 60 m
Continental Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 Marrakech 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Marrakech 100 m
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Tampere 100 m
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tampere Long jump
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Moncton Heptathlon
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Moncton 4 × 100 m relay
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Tallinn Heptathlon

Dafne Schippers (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdɑfnə ˈsxɪpərs]; 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 Olympics in the 200 metres.

Schippers holds the European record in the 200 m with a time of 21.63 s and is the third-fastest woman of all time at this distance. She is co-record holder in the 4 × 100 m relay.

Early life

Dafne Schippers was born on 15 June 1992 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.[1][2] She started competing in athletics at the age of 9 at the track and field club Hellas in Utrecht.[1]

Early career

Schippers originally competed in the heptathlon and won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics[3] and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships. At the 2010 World Junior Championships she also won a bronze in the 4 x 100 meters relay with her team mates Loreanne Kuhurima, Eva Lubbers and Jamile Samuel. [4]

In 2011 at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, she broke the Dutch national record in the 200 m in the heats in 22.69,[5] before finishing 9th in the semifinals, missing the final by 0.04 seconds. The 4 x 100 meter relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Anouk Hagen and Samuel) were eliminated in the heats in a national record of 43.44.

In 2012, she was invited to participate at the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Götzis (Austria), where she finished 5th. She also competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki (Finland). She finished 5th at the 200 meters.[6] The race was disappointing after She had won her heat in 23.01 and recorded the fastest semi-final time of 22.70. The Dutch 4x100 meters relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Eva Lubbers and Samuel), were second in 42.80, a national record, behind the German team.[7]

A year later, she started with a third place at the Hypo-Meeting, with 6287 points.[8] Next, she won gold in the 100 m and bronze in the long jump at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships. At the subsequent 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Schippers won the bronze medal in the heptathlon, collapsing over the line after taking a massive seven seconds off her personal best in the 800 metres to see off Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Claudia Rath for the bronze.[9][10] She became the first Dutch woman to win a medal in the hepthatlon at the World Athletics Championships.[9]

She improved the 200 m record during the heptathlon at the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, her time of 22.35 being one of the best 200 m performances ever in a heptathlon. She finished third at the hepthatlon with 6545 points, a new national record.[11] At the European championships of 2014 Schippers won gold medals in the 100 m and the 200 m.[12] The 4x100 meters relay team, one of the favourites for the title, did not finish in the final due to a botched first baton change.[13]

Shifting to sprinting

File:200m women medalists Beijing 2015.jpg
200m women medalists at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics : Elaine Thompson, Dafne Schippers and Veronica Campbell-Brown.

Her success at the 2014 European Athletics Championships prompted discussion over her long-term prospects and whether she should focus on sprinting, or continue her career in the heptathlon.[14] In June 2015 Schippers announced via Twitter that she would focus on sprinting in the run-up to the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing (China) and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).[15]

The 2015 season had started well with a win in the 60 m at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague (Czech Republic).[16] At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing Schippers won the silver medal in the 100 m and gold in the 200 m, just before Elaine Thompson.[17] Her 200 m winning time of 21.63 seconds was a new European record and made her the third fastest woman in history over that distance. [17][18] The Dutch 4x100 meters relay team (Nadine Visser, Schippers, Naomi Sedney and Samuel) finished 5th in 42.32, but was disqualified for a changeover infringement.[19] In the heats the team had also run 42.32, a new national record.[20]

She won the 100 m at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in 10.90, by 3 tenths of a second. The Dutch team led by Schippers, with Samuel, Tessa van Schagen and anchor runner Naomi Sedney won the 4x100 meters relay with a national record of 42.04.[21]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics she was expected to add an Olympic title to the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships, following in the footsteps of Fanny Blankers-Koen who had dominated the sprint events at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, winning four golds.[22] However, she finished fifth in the 100 m final,[23] and won the silver medal in the 200 m behind Elaine Thompson who became the first woman for 28 years to complete the Olympic sprint double.[24][25] After defeat in the 200 m, Schippers outed her instantaneous emotions to reporters. “I came here for gold,” she said, disappointment showing in her face. “I’m not happy with the silver.”[24] The Dutch relay team was eliminated in the heats due to a botched relay handover between Samuel and Schippers.[26][27]

At the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, she defended her world title in the 200m, after winning the bronze in the 100m, joining Jamaican Merlene Ottey and USA’s Allyson Felix as the only athletes to successfully defend a world title in the event.[22] The Dutch 4 x 100 m relay team (Madiea Ghafoor, Schippers, Sedney, Samuel) finished 8th.

The Dafne Schippersbrug (Dafne Schippers Bridge) in Utrecht, where Schippers grew up, was opened in April 2017, and named in her honour.[28]

Competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing the  Netherlands
2009 European Junior Championships Novi Sad, Serbia 4th Heptathlon 5507 pts
2010 World Junior Championships Moncton, Canada 3rd 4 × 100 m relay 44.09 (NJR)
1st Heptathlon 5967 pts (NJR)
2011 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 11th (sf) 60 m 7.30
European Junior Championships Tallinn, Estonia 1st Heptathlon 6153 pts
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 9th (sf) 200 m 22.92
9th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 43.44 (NR)
2012 World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 10th (sf) 60 m 7.25
European Championships Helsinki, Finland 5th 200 m 23.53
2nd 4 × 100 m relay 42.80 (NR)
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 6th 4 × 100 m relay 42.70
11th Heptathlon 6324 pts
2013 European Indoor Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 4th 60 m 7.14
European U23 Championships Tampere, Finland 1st 100 m 11.13 (wind: -0.7 m/s)
4th 4 × 100 m relay 44.18
3rd Long jump 6.59 m (wind: +1.6 m/s)
World Championships Moscow, Russia 3rd Heptathlon 6477 pts (NR)[29]
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 10th (sf) 60 m 7.18
European Championships Zürich, Switzerland 1st 100 m 11.12
1st 200 m 22.03 (NR)
3rd (h) 4 × 100 m relay 42.77[30]
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 1st 60 m 7.05
World Championships Beijing, China 2nd 100 m 10.81 (NR)
1st 200 m 21.63 (NR), (CR), (ER)
— 4 × 100 m relay DQ
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 2nd 60 m 7.04
European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 1st 100 m 10.90
1st 4 × 100 m relay 42.04 (NR)
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 5th 100 m 10.90
2nd 200 m 21.88
9th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 42.88
2017 IAAF World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 4th 4 × 100 m relay 43.11
World Championships London, United Kingdom 3rd 100 m 10.96
1st 200 m 22.05
8th 4 × 100 m relay 43.07
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 5th 60 m 7.10

Personal bests

File:200m women final Zurich 2014.jpg
Schippers setting a national record on the 200 metres in Zürich in 2014
File:60 Metres Podium Prague 2015.jpg
Schippers after winning the 60 metres in Prague in 2015
Outdoor
Indoor

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 (Dutch) Biografie, Homepage Daphne Schippers. Retrieved on 3 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Athlete Profile - Dafne Schippers, IAAF. Retrieved on 3 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Women's Heptathlon, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 24 July 2010
  4. ↑ Women's 4x100m final, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 24 July 2010
  5. ↑ Women's 200m - Heats - No surprises as Felix, Campbell-Brown and Jeter advance, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 1 September 2011
  6. ↑ Double delight for Ukraine in the 200m, European Athletics, 30 June 2012
  7. ↑ Sailer leads Germany to relay glory, European Athletics, 1 July 2012
  8. ↑ Canada's Warner and Theisen triumph in Gotzis, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 26 May 2013
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Report: Heptathlon 800m – Moscow 2013, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 14 August 2013
  10. ↑ Melnychenko inspired to gold by blue and yellow, Eaton adds to family medal collection, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 14 August 2013
  11. ↑ Hardee back on top, Johnson-Thompson breaks through in Gotzis, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 1 June 2014
  12. ↑ Schippers: ik kan nog meer, NOS (13 augustus 2014)
  13. ↑ Table-topping Britain win five golds on extraordinary last day in Zurich, European Athletics, 17 August 2014
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Schippers is the golden girl again, European Athletics, 8 March 2015
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Report: women’s 200m final – IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 28 August 2015
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Report: women’s 4x100m final – IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 29 August 2015
  20. ↑ Report: women’s 4x100m heats – IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 29 August 2015
  21. ↑ Three golds leave Poland top of the final medals table, European Athletics, 10 July 2016
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Gold all the sweeter for Schippers after Rio heartbreak, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 13 August 2017
  23. ↑ Report: women's 100m final – Rio 2016 Olympic Games, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 13 August 2016
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Report: women's 200m final – Rio 2016 Olympic Games, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 17 August 2016
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Botched relay adds to Schippers’ Rio misery, Reuters, 18 August 2016
  27. ↑ Report: women's 4x100m heats – Rio 2016 Olympic Games, International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 18 August 2016
  28. ↑ Bridge named after athlete Dafne Schippers opens in Utrecht, Dutch News, 3 April 2017
  29. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. ↑ Did not finish in the final
  31. ↑ 31.00 31.01 31.02 31.03 31.04 31.05 31.06 31.07 31.08 31.09 31.10 31.11 31.12 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Records
Preceded by Women's 200m European record holder
28 August 2015 – present		 Incumbent
Awards
Preceded by Women's European Athlete of the Year
2014, 2015		 Succeeded by
Ruth Beitia
Preceded by Dutch Sportswoman of the Year
2015
2017		 Succeeded by
Sanne Wevers
Incumbent
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