Nadine Broersen (; born 29 April 1990) is a Dutch
track and field
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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
high jump
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. She was the
2014 World Indoor pentathlon champion. Broersen competes for the track and field club AV Sprint in
Breda
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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
javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown as far as possible. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's de ...
– she was advised to specialize in the heptathlon,
[After world indoor gold, Broersen is now focused on bigger challenges](_blank)
International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, 28 May 2014 despite her fear for the
800 metres
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.
[Broersen follows in famous Dutch footsteps, bridging a 25-year gap](_blank)
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 ...
in
Götzis
Götzis is a town in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The Alpine Rhine valley municipality belongs to the district of Feldkirch.
Population
Events
The town is well known for its annual hypo-combined events meeting, the so-called ...
(Austria) in 2012, Broersen was selected to compete at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in
London
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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 ...
in
Gothenburg
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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
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in
Moscow
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(Russia) she competed 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 ...
, 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
Dafne Schippers
Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting and the combined events. She holds the European record in the 200 metres with a time of 21.63 seconds, making her the sixth-fastest woman ...
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
Sopot
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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
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 1.93m.
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
Toruń
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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
2014 European Athletics Championships
The 2014 European Athletics Championships was held in Zürich, Switzerland, between 12 and 17 August 2014. It was the first time that Switzerland had hosted the European Athletics Championships since 1954 European Athletics Championships, 1954.
G ...
in
Zurich
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(Switzerland) 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 ...
behind France's
Antoinette Nana Djimou, breaking the outdoor national record in the high jump with 1.94m. That year she won the 2014
IAAF Combined Events Challenge
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.
The next year, starting as one of the favourites at the
2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held from 5 to 8 March 2015 in the O2 Arena (Prague), O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic.
Bidding process
Prague was chosen as the host of the Championships on the European Athletics council ...
, 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
javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown as far as possible. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's de ...
.
In 2016, everything was focused on the
2016 Summer Olympics
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in
Rio de Janeiro
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(Brazil). At the
2016 European Athletics Championships
The 2016 European Athletics Championships was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between 6 and 10 July 2016. It was the first time the Netherlands hosted the event.
Due to 2016 being an Olympic year, there was no racewalking and the marathon competi ...
in
Amsterdam
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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
Anouk Vetter
Anouk Vetter (; born 4 February 1993) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in the combined events.
She won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Vetter claimed bronze an ...
won the heptathlon event with a new national record of 6626 points. At the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...
she finished in a disappointing 13th place. Nevertheless, she made up the 2016 season by winning the heptathlon at the
Décastar
Décastar (stylised ''DECASTAR'') is an annual Sport of athletics, athletics competition that takes place in Talence, in the Departments of France, department of the Gironde in France. Organised by ADEL'ADEM it is one of the athletics meetings tha ...
in
Talence
Talence (, ; , ; ) is a commune in the department of Gironde, administrative region of New Aquitaine, France.
It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Bordeaux, and is adjacent to it on the south side. It is a member of the Bordeaux Mét ...
(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
London
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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
2019 World Athletics Championships
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in
Doha
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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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1990 births
Living people
Dutch heptathletes
Dutch Athletics Championships winners
Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships winners
Olympic athletes for the Netherlands
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Hoorn
Athletes from North Holland
World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands
European Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
21st-century Dutch sportswomen