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Nadine Visser

Visser at the 2021 Memorial Van Damme in Brussels
Personal information
Born	(1995-02-09) 9 February 1995 (age 29) Hoorn, Netherlands
Height	1.75 m
Weight	60 kg
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	100 metres hurdles 60 metres hurdles
Coached by	Bart Bennema
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking	No. 3 (100 m hurdles) No. 45 (overall)
Personal best(s)	100 m hurdles: 12.51 NR (Zürich 2021) Indoors 60 m hurdles: 7.77 i NR (Toruń 2021)
Medal record Women's athletics Representing the  Netherlands World Relays Bronze 2021 Chorzów 4×100 m relay World Indoor Championships Bronze 2018 Birmingham 60 m hurdles European Championships Bronze 2024 Rome 4×100 m relay European Indoor Championships Gold 2019 Glasgow 60 m hurdles Gold 2021 Torun 60 m hurdles Silver 2023 Istanbul 60 m hurdles European Games Silver 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 100 m hurdles European U23 Championships Gold 2017 Bydgoszcz 100 m hurdles Bronze 2015 Tallinn 100 m hurdles World Junior Championships Bronze 2014 Eugene 100 m hurdles Bronze 2014 Eugene Heptathlon European Youth Olympic Festival Gold 2011 Trabzon 100 m hurdles Gold 2011 Trabzon 4×100 m relay Universiade Gold 2017 Taipei 100 m hurdles

Nadine Visser (Dutch: [naːˈdinə ˈvɪsər]; born 9 February 1995) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the combined events until 2017 and specialises in short hurdling since 2018.

Visser won the bronze medal in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2018 World Indoor Championships. She claimed gold medals in the event at the 2019 and 2021 European Indoor Championships, and silver at the 2023 edition. She earned bronze and gold in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2015 and 2017 European Under-23 Championships respectively.

Visser was the 2014 World Junior Championships bronze medallist for the heptathlon and 100 m hurdles. She also won gold in the 100m hurdles at the 2017 Universiade. She represented Netherlands at both the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Visser is the Dutch record holder for the 100 m hurdles and Dutch indoor record holder for the 60 m hurdles. She is a multiple national champion. She is coached by Bart Bennema, who is also the coach of Dafne Schippers.

Career

Early career

Visser's first sports were gymnastics and football; she took up athletics at age 13. She represented the Netherlands at the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival in Trabzon, winning gold medal in both the 100 m hurdles and 4 × 100 metres relay.

Visser competed as a heptathlete at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, placing eleventh with 5447 points. In 2013, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at the European Junior Championships in Rieti, scoring 5774 points. In the heptathlon's opening event, the 100 m hurdles, she ran 13.21 s (+1.5 m/s) to break Dafne Schippers' Dutch junior record from 2011.

2014

Visser with javelin at the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis (AT).

During the 2014 indoor season Visser set Dutch indoor junior records in both the 60 m hurdles and the pentathlon; as of 2015^[update], her pentathlon score of 4268 points ranked her ninth on the world all-time junior list. Outdoors, Visser competed in the Götzis Hypo-Meeting for the first time, scoring a personal best 6110 points and placing 14th. At the World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon, she took part in both the heptathlon and the 100 m hurdles, winning bronze medals in both events. In the hurdles she broke 13 seconds for the first time, her time of 12.99 s (+1.9) setting a new Dutch junior and under-23 record. Visser qualified for her first senior European Championships that summer, representing the Netherlands in the 100 m hurdles; she ran 13.12 s (-2.0) in the heats and was narrowly eliminated from the semi-finals.

2015

In 2015, Visser became Dutch senior champion for the first time, winning the 60 m hurdles in 8.12 s at the national indoor championships in Apeldoorn; she was selected for the European Indoor Championships in Prague, despite not quite meeting the national federation's qualification standard. In Prague she qualified from the heats on time, but fell in her semi-final and was eliminated. Outdoors, Visser improved her national under-23 hurdles record to 12.97 s (+1.4) at the FBK Games in Hengelo on 24 May; the following week, she placed fifth in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting with a personal best 6467 points. Before the European U23 Championships in Tallinn Visser had reached the qualifying standard in five events (100 m, 200 m, 100 m hurdles, long jump and heptathlon); she chose to compete in the hurdles and the long jump, winning a bronze in the hurdles with a time of 13.01 s (-0.2).

Nadine during the 100 m hurdles and shot put events at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing.

At the 2015 European U23 Championships Visser won a bronze in the 100 m hurdles. She went on to compete at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, finishing eighth in the heptathlon. She was also the start runner of the Dutch 4 x 100 m relay team with Dafne Schippers, Naomi Sedney and Jamile Samuel that finished fifth in 42.32 s in the final, but was disqualified for a changeover infringement. In the heats the team had run 42.32 s, a new national record. At the end of the summer season she finished third at the Décastar heptathlon in Talence, France.

2016

At the 2016 European Athletics Championships 100 m hurdles in Amsterdam, Visser was eliminated in the semifinals. At the 2016 Summer Olympics heptathlon in Rio de Janeiro, she finished at a disappointing 19th place.

2017

At the 2017 European U23 Championships, she won a gold in the 100 m hurdles. "It was going well until the eighth hurdle and then it became kind of messy. But I am happy to finish first." said Visser. She took a second place in the heptathlon at the Mehrkampf-Meeting in Ratingen (Germany), behind Carolin Schäfer. In August, Visser finished seventh in the event with 6370 points at the World Championships in London. The same month, she won a gold in the 100 m hurdles at the Summer Universiade for university athletes.

2018: Heptathlon or hurdles

Visser at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin.

The 2018 season started with a bronze at the World Indoor Championship 60 m hurdles. She had clocked 7.83 s to win her semi-final, obliterating Marjan Olyslager’s Dutch record of 7.89 s which had stood since 1989. In consultation with her coach Bart Bennema, Visser had to make a decision about her future: the heptathlon or hurdles. With the 2018 European Championships in Berlin on the doorstep and given her chances of victory on the hurdles at that event, she decided to concentrate on hurdling. In June, at the Diamond League in Stockholm, she ran a new national record in the 100 m hurdles with a time of 12.71 seconds, breaking almost 30-year old record of Olyslager from 1989. She finished fourth at the European Championships in a time of 12.88 s.

2019

Visser (2nd from the right) won her first European title with the 60 m hurdles victory at indoor Glasgow 2019.

In 2019, she started with winning the 60 m hurdles title at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. At the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, she finished sixth in the 100 m hurdles final. She had broken her own national record in the semi-finals, clocking 12.62 s (+1.0).

2021

Visser successfully defended her European 60 m hurdles title at Toruń 2021 in Poland, improving her own Dutch record to 7.77 seconds. She finished fifth in the 100 m hurdles at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a time of 12.73 s.

Achievements

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 m hurdles – 12.51 s (+0.4 m/s, Zürich 2021) NR
• 100 metres – 11.25 s (+1.2 m/s, Utrecht 2020)
• Heptathlon – 6467 pts (Götzis 2015)

Indoor

• 60 m hurdles – 7.77 s i (Toruń 2021) NR
• 60 metres indoor – 7.22 s i (Apeldoorn 2023)
• Pentathlon – 4428 pts i (Apeldoorn 2017)

International competitions

Representing the  Netherlands

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result
2011	European Youth Olympic Festival	Trabzon, Turkey	1st	100 m hurdles	13.28
			1st	4 × 100 m relay	45.93
2012	World Junior Championships	Barcelona, Spain	11th	Heptathlon	5447 pts
2013	European Junior Championships	Rieti, Italy	4th	Heptathlon	5774 pts
2014	World Junior Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.99
			3rd	Heptathlon	5948 pts
2015	European U23 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	3rd	100 m hurdles	13.01
	World Championships	Beijing, China	8th	Heptathlon	6344 pts
2016	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	19th	Heptathlon	6190 pts
2017	European U23 Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	100 m hurdles	12.92
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	7th	Heptathlon	6370 pts
	Universiade	Taipei, Taiwan	1st	100 m hurdles	12.98
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	3rd	60 m hurdles	7.84
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	4th	100 m hurdles	12.88
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, Scotland	1st	60 m hurdles	7.87
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	6th	100 m hurdles	12.64
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	1st	60 m hurdles	7.77
	World Relays	Chorzów, Poland	3rd	4 × 100 m relay	44.10
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	5th	100 m hurdles	12.73
			7th (h)	4 × 100 m relay	42.811
2022	World Championships	Eugene, OR, United States	12th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.66
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	4th	100 m hurdles	12.75
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	2nd	60 m hurdles	7.84
	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	10th (sf)	100 m hurdles	12.62
			–	4 × 100 m relay	DNF
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	24th (sf)	60 m hurdles	8.42
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	5th (f)	100 m hurdles	12.72
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.46

National titles

• Dutch Athletics Championships
  • 100 metres: 2020
  • 100 m hurdles: 2015, 2020, 2022
• Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships
  • 60 metres: 2024
  • 60 m hurdles: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Pentathlon: 2017

See also

In Spanish: Nadine Visser para niños