Nadine Broersen (; born 29 April 1990) is a Dutch

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athlete, specializing in the

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

and

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. She was the 2014 World Indoor pentathlon champion. Broersen competes for the track and field club AV Sprint in

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Early career

Broersen is a member of the Dutch national combined events squad and trains at the Olympic Training centre in Papendal in the Netherlands since 2009. Because she was good in three essential events –

100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is ...

, high jump and the

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– she was advised to specialize in the heptathlon,After world indoor gold, Broersen is now focused on bigger challenges
International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 28 May 2014 despite her fear for the

800 metres The 800 metres, or 800 meters (American and British English spelling differences#-re.2C -er, US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of a ...

.Broersen follows in famous Dutch footsteps, bridging a 25-year gap
International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 8 March 2014 After decent results at the

2009 European Athletics Junior Championships The 20th European Athletics Junior Championships were held between 23 and 26 July 2009 in the Stadion Karađorđe in Novi Sad, Serbia. Germany topped the medal table with 25 medals overall, including 10 golds, ahead of Russia and Ukraine. Medal ...

, the

2011 European Athletics U23 Championships The 8th European Athletics U23 Championships were held on 14–17 July 2011 in the Městský stadion (Ostrava), Městský stadion in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Russia topped the medal table with 20 medals in total, including 9 golds (after revision ...

, and an 8th place at the prestigious

Hypo-Meeting The Hypo-Meeting is an annual athletics (sport), athletics competition that takes place in the Mösle stadium in Götzis in Vorarlberg (Austria) held in the spring (late May, early June). In its history, a total of three world records have been se ...

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(Austria) in 2012, Broersen was selected to compete at the

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in the

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

event, where she finished 13th with a personal best score of 6319 points. At the

2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Scandinavium and Svenska Mässan in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 1–3 March 2013. Bidding process The decision to grant the event for Gothenburg was made by the European Athletics Council at ...

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(Sweden) she was on course for a medal in the

pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek language, Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) (). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Anci ...

, but was disqualified for a lane violation in the final event, the 800m. However, she finished 2nd at the Hypo-Meeting behind Brianne Theisen from Canada. At the

2013 World Championships in Athletics The 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (Moscow 2013; ) was an international athletics (sport), athletics competition held in Moscow, Russia, from 10 to 18 August 2013. Initially, Russia at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, Russia ...

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(Russia) she competed in the

, but did not start well, falling over the last hurdle in the

100 m hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male counterpart is the 110 metres hurdles). For the race, ten hurdles of a height of are placed along a straight course of . The first hurdle is ...

. In the later disciplines however, she continued very strong and finished 10th, with her teammate

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finishing 3rd. Had she not fallen at the hurdles, she probably would have finished on the podium.

2014 World Indoor Champion

On March 7, 2014, Broersen won gold at the World Indoor championships in

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(Poland) in the indoor pentathlon, improving the national record of Karin Ruckstuhl with a score of 4830 points. On the way to that result she also improved the national indoor record in the

, with a height of 1.93m. That year she finished 4th at Götzis, scoring 6536 points, which would have been a Dutch record, had Schippers not finished nine points ahead. She set her personal best at 6539 points, winning the heptathlon in

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(Poland) in July 2014, just six points short of the national record set in March earlier that year by Schippers at Götzis. Later that year she won silver at the

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(Switzerland) in the

behind France's Antoinette Nana Djimou, breaking the outdoor national record in the high jump with 1.94m. That year she won the 2014

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. The next year, starting as one of the favourites at the

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, she had to give up due to an injured ankle incurred at the Dutch national indoor championships. Nevertheless, outdoor she finished 3rd in Gotzis and 4th at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics hepthatlon in Beijing (China). Before the final 800 m event, she had been in 2nd place overall after a good

. In 2016, everything was focused on the

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(Brazil). At the

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in her home country, Broersen, who moved from ninth on the first day to fourth after winning the long jump and coming third in the javelin, but was unable to run the final 800 metres event due to an illness. Her teammate

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won the heptathlon event with a new national record of 6626 points. At the

she finished in a disappointing 13th place. Nevertheless, she made up the 2016 season by winning the heptathlon at the

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(France).

Injuries and comeback

The 2017 season started with a 5th place at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships pentathlon, but she had to abandon at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, sparing her ankle. At the World Championships heptathlon in

she had to abandon the event due to a hamstring injury, incurred at the long jump event. In Talence that year she failed to record a legal leap in the long jump and subsequently dropped out; the third incomplete heptathlon of the season. In 2018 she could barely compete after she had torn the back cruciate ligament from her knee in November 2017 and a long rehabilitation followed. The 2019 season was the year of a comeback, despite an hamstring injury at national indoor pentathlon championship in February. At the Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis she finished 7th, and a month late she finished third at the Mehrkampf-Meeting Ratingen. At the

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she finished sixth.Broersen sluit zevenkamp af met knappe zesde plek, Oosterwegel zevende
Algemeen Dagblad, 3 October 2019

Competition record

Personal bests

Outdoor Indoor

References

External links

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