Gold for Dafne Schippers at World Cup: who is she? – Elsevier

                 Dafne Schippers Friday achieved a unique gold medal. She pulled at the athletics World Championships in Beijing gold in the final of the 200 meters and is the first Dutch athlete who wins a world title. Who is she?
             

A time of 21.63 was Schippers sufficient for the World Cup title in Beijing. This Schippers once ran a European record. She looked what coolly after she won the gold title, but that was because she felt not as good just after the race, she acknowledged to the camera from the NIS. ‘Weird’, she called her win in the 200 meters. “I still can not believe it.”

Global elite

The 23-year-old from Utrecht, who earlier in the tournament to a sensational silver medal sprinted the 100 meters, with her world title in the 200 meters final joined the global elite sprint. She was in Zurich last year already European champion in the 100 and 200 meters.

   Schippers was born on June 15, 1992 in Utrecht. Soon she appears to have a particular interest in athletics. On the internet you can find a video of a sixteen-year-old Dafne Schippers, who says she has only one date in her head: August 24, 2016, the all-around at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Probably there will now be a new date engraved in her memory: August 28, 2015. The sober Schippers probably could not have imagined that her dream would be so soon realized

Not out. air

However, the gold medal is not completely in the air. Papendal Schippers is working daily to the realization of her dreams. When she is not at Papendal, she lives with her parents in Utrecht.

‘follow me around the world, is a hobby for them come, “said Schippers earlier in Elsevier . “It’s great to be with them to get away with a tournament from the hectic, as no athletes around me.” Relativistic parental words – in the lines of, oh, next week there will be another competition – as medicine after a disappointing result? “No! Those are comments forbidden! “.

Heptathlon

Results Schippers still took the all-around tournament. In 2010 she became world champion in the heptathlon juniors, two years later she was seventh in the heptathlon at the Olympic Games. In 2013 Schippers took the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the World Championships in Moscow. But that its strength also lies mainly on the sprint, it became clear during the European Championship in Zurich where they both the 100 and the 200 meters sprint won.

21.63 now Schippers at the World Cup has run for the fourth time ever. Only the American world record holder Florence Griffith Joyner was two times faster (21.34 and 21.56) and Marion Jones (21.62).

Not bad for a girl who initially a career in the classroom was reserved: “I started out at the teacher training colleges. Maybe I pick up so again. Afraid of the black hole after sport? Completely not!’ But first, there is still the tournament that the sixteen year old Schippers had in mind: the Olympic Games in Rio. There, too, they’ll go for one thing, and that is gold.