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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 30) 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)	60 mH: 7.72 i (2025, NR) 100 mH: 12.36 (2024, NR)
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 Silver 2025 Apeldoorn 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 (born on February 9, 1995) is a Dutch track and field athlete. She used to compete in multi-sport events until 2017. Since 2018, she has focused on short hurdle races.

Nadine Visser won a bronze medal in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2018 World Indoor Championships. She also won gold medals in the same event at the 2019 and 2021 European Indoor Championships. She earned a silver medal at the 2023 event. In the 100 metres hurdles, she won bronze at the 2015 and gold at the 2017 European Under-23 Championships.

Visser also won two bronze medals at the 2014 World Junior Championships. These were for the heptathlon (a seven-event competition) and the 100 meter hurdles. She also won gold in the 100 meter hurdles at the 2017 Universiade. Nadine has represented the Netherlands at the 2016 Rio, 2020 Tokyo, and 2024 Paris Olympics. She holds the Dutch record for the 100 meter hurdles and the Dutch indoor record for the 60 meter hurdles. She has won many national championships and is coached by Bart Bennema.

Nadine Visser's Athletics Journey

Starting Out in Sports

Nadine Visser first played gymnastics and football. She started athletics when she was 13 years old. She represented the Netherlands at the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival in Trabzon. There, she won gold medals in both the 100 meter hurdles and the 4 × 100 metres relay race.

Visser competed in the heptathlon at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona. She finished eleventh with 5447 points. In 2013, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at the European Junior Championships in Rieti. She scored 5774 points. In the 100 meter hurdles, which is the first event of the heptathlon, she ran 13.21 seconds. This broke the Dutch junior record set by Dafne Schippers in 2011.

Achievements in 2014

Nadine Visser with a javelin at the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria.

In 2014, Nadine Visser set new Dutch indoor junior records. She achieved these in both the 60 meter hurdles and the pentathlon (a five-event competition). Her pentathlon score of 4268 points placed her among the top junior athletes worldwide.

Outdoors, Visser competed in the Götzis Hypo-Meeting for the first time. She scored her personal best of 6110 points and finished 14th. At the World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon, she won bronze medals in both the heptathlon and the 100 meter hurdles. In the hurdles, she ran under 13 seconds for the first time, setting a new Dutch junior and under-23 record of 12.99 seconds. Visser also competed in her first senior European Championships that summer. She ran 13.12 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles heats but did not make it to the semi-finals.

Highlights of 2015

In 2015, Visser became a Dutch senior champion for the first time. She won the 60 meter hurdles in 8.12 seconds at the national indoor championships in Apeldoorn. She was chosen for the European Indoor Championships in Prague. In Prague, she qualified from the heats but fell in her semi-final race.

Outdoors, Visser improved her national under-23 hurdles record to 12.97 seconds at the FBK Games in Hengelo. The next week, she finished fifth in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting with a personal best of 6467 points. At the European U23 Championships in Tallinn, she chose to compete in the hurdles and the long jump. She won a bronze medal in the hurdles with a time of 13.01 seconds.

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

At the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, Nadine finished eighth in the heptathlon. She was also the first runner for the Dutch 4 × 100 meter relay team. The team finished fifth in the final but was later disqualified. In the heats, the team had set a new national record of 42.32 seconds. At the end of the summer, she finished third in the Décastar heptathlon in Talence, France.

Olympic Experience in 2016

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

Success in 2017

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

Focusing on Hurdles in 2018

Nadine Visser at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin.

The 2018 season began with a bronze medal for Nadine in the World Indoor Championship 60 meter hurdles. She ran 7.83 seconds in her semi-final, breaking Marjan Olyslager’s Dutch record from 1989. After talking with her coach, Bart Bennema, Visser decided to focus on hurdle races. This decision was made because of the upcoming 2018 European Championships in Berlin and her strong chances in the hurdles event. In June, at the Diamond League in Stockholm, she set a new national record in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 12.71 seconds. This broke Olyslager's record from 1989. She finished fourth at the European Championships with a time of 12.88 seconds.

European Champion in 2019

Nadine Visser (second from the right) won her first European title in the 60 meter hurdles at the indoor Glasgow 2019 event.

In 2019, Nadine started by winning the 60 meter hurdles title at the 2019 European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. At the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, she finished sixth in the 100 meter hurdles final. She had broken her own national record in the semi-finals, running 12.62 seconds.

Continued Success in 2021

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

Personal Best Records

These are Nadine Visser's best results in different events, according to her World Athletics profile.

Individual Events

Team Events

Competition Results

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	100 m hurdles	12.72
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	42.46
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	4th	100 m hurdles	12.43
2025	European Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	2nd	60 m hurdles	7.72
	World Indoor Championships	Nanjing, China	6th	60 m hurdles	7.76

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, 2025
  • Pentathlon: 2017

See also

In Spanish: Nadine Visser para niños