Dutch Athletics Team rd 33 European Indoor Championships Prague | March 5-8, 2015 Royal Dutch Athletics Federation / Atletiekunie P.O. Box 60100 6800 JC Arnhem The Netherlands President: Theo Hoex General Secretary: Jan Willem Landré Phone: +31(0)26 483 48 00 Fax: +31(0)26 483 48 01 E-mail:
[email protected] Internet: www.atletiekunie.nl @atletiekunie @AtletiekLive facebook.com/Atletiekunie 2 Contents Additional info athletes 4 Introduction 5 A word with Sifan Hassan 5 Timetable 7 Biographies 10 - Women 10 - Men 18 - Staff 26 History and Statistics 30 Additional Information 42 Production 43 - 3 - Additional info Dutch Athletes Dutch Athletes can be found in several places on the web. Of course they have their websites, but many of them you can also follow on twitter. Women Website Twitter account Nadine Broersen www.nadinebroersen.nl @NadineBroersen Maureen Koster @maureenkoster Femke Pluim @femkepluim Dafne Schippers www.dafneschippers.nl @DafneSchippers Anouk Vetter @AnoukVetter Nadine Visser www.nadinevisser.nl @_NadineVisser Men Website Twitter account Terrence Agard @agardtagard01 Bjorn Blauwhof @bjornblauwhofbb Liemarvin Bonevacia @leemarvin44 Pieter Braun www.pieterbraun.com @Pieterbraun Thijmen Kupers www.thijmenkupers.nl @thijm3n Gregory Sedoc @gregorysedoc Eelco Sintnicolaas www.eelcosintnicolaas.nl @eelcotienkamp Others Website Twitter account Atletiekunie www.atletiekunie.nl @Atletiekunie @AtletiekLive Erik van Leeuwen www.erki.nl @erikvanleeuwen Eric Roeske @EricRoeske - 4 - Introduction With 17 athletes (8 men and 9 women) the Dutch delegation for the 33rd European Indoor Championships is the largest since the 1998 tournament in Valencia, Spain. The team contains a reigning champion (Eelco Sintnicolaas, heptathlon), a reigning world indoor champion (Nadine Broersen, pentathlon), as well as two reigning European outdoor champions (Dafne Schippers and Sifan Hassan).