 Visser at the2021 Memorial Van Damme inBrussels | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1995-02-09)9 February 1995 (age 30) Hoorn, Netherlands |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 100 metres hurdles 60 metres hurdles |
| Coached by | Bart Bennema[1] |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Highest world ranking | |
| Personalbests | |
Medal record | |
Nadine Visser (Dutch:[naːˈdinəˈvɪsər]; born 9 February 1995)[2] is a Dutchtrack and field athlete who competed in thecombined events until 2017 and specialises inshort hurdling since 2018.
Visser won the bronze medal in the60 metres hurdles at the2018 World Indoor Championships. She claimed gold medals in the event at the2019 and2021 European Indoor Championships, and silver at the2023 edition. She earned bronze and gold in the100 metres hurdles at the2015 and2017 European Under-23 Championships respectively.
Visser was the2014 World Junior Championships bronze medallist for the heptathlon and 100 m hurdles. She also won gold in the 100 m hurdles at the2017 Universiade. She represented Netherlands at the2016 Rio,2020 Tokyo and2024 Paris Olympics. Visser is theDutch 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 was also the coach ofDafne Schippers.[1]
Visser's first sports weregymnastics andfootball; she took up athletics at age 13.[3] She represented the Netherlands at the2011 European Youth Olympic Festival inTrabzon, winning gold medal in both the 100 m hurdles and4 × 100 metres relay.[4]
Visser competed as a heptathlete at the2012 World Junior Championships inBarcelona, placing eleventh with 5447 points.[4] In 2013, she placed fourth in the heptathlon at theEuropean Junior Championships inRieti, scoring 5774 points. In the heptathlon's opening event, the 100 m hurdles, she ran 13.21 s (+1.5 m/s) to breakDafne Schippers' Dutch junior record from 2011.[4][5]
During the 2014 indoor season Visser set Dutch indoor junior records in both the60 m hurdles and thepentathlon; as of 2015[update], her pentathlon score of 4268 points ranked her ninth on the world all-time junior list.[4][6] Outdoors, Visser competed in theGötzisHypo-Meeting for the first time, scoring a personal best 6110 points and placing 14th.[7] At theWorld Junior Championships inEugene, Oregon, she took part in both theheptathlon and the100 m hurdles, winning bronze medals in both events.[8] 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.[9] Visser qualified for her first seniorEuropean 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.[10]
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 inApeldoorn; she was selected for theEuropean Indoor Championships inPrague, despite not quite meeting the national federation's qualification standard.[1][4] In Prague she qualified from the heats on time, but fell in her semi-final and was eliminated.[11] Outdoors, Visser improved her national under-23 hurdles record to 12.97 s (+1.4) at theFBK Games inHengelo on 24 May; the following week, she placed fifth in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting with a personal best 6467 points.[4] Before theEuropean U23 Championships inTallinn 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).[12]
At the 2015 European U23 Championships Visser won a bronze in the 100 m hurdles. She went on to compete at the2015 World Championships in Athletics inBeijing, China, finishing eighth in the heptathlon. She was also the start runner of the Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team withDafne Schippers,Naomi Sedney andJamile Samuel that finished fifth in 42.32 s in the final, but was disqualified for a changeover infringement.[13] In the heats the team had run 42.32 s, a new national record.[14] At the end of the summer season she finished third at theDécastar heptathlon inTalence, France.[15]
At the2016 European Athletics Championships 100 m hurdles inAmsterdam, Visser was eliminated in the semifinals. At the2016 Summer Olympics heptathlon inRio de Janeiro, she finished at a disappointing 19th place.
At the2017 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.[16] She took a second place in the heptathlon at theMehrkampf-Meeting inRatingen (Germany), behindCarolin Schäfer.[17] In August, Visser finished seventh in the event with 6370 points at theWorld Championships in London.[18] The same month, she won a gold in the 100 m hurdles at theSummer Universiade for university athletes.
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The 2018 season started with a bronze at theWorld Indoor Championship 60 m hurdles.[19] She had clocked 7.83 s to win her semi-final, obliteratingMarjan Olyslager’s Dutch record of 7.89 s which had stood since 1989.[20] In consultation with her coach Bart Bennema, Visser had to make a decision about her future: the heptathlon or hurdles. With the2018 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.[21][20] In June, at theDiamond League inStockholm, 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.[22] She finished fourth at the European Championships in a time of12.88 s.
In 2019, she started with winning the 60 m hurdles title at the2019 European Indoor Championships inGlasgow. At the2019 World Athletics Championships held inDoha, 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).[23]
Visser successfully defended her European 60 m hurdles title atToruń 2021 in Poland, improving her own Dutch record to 7.77 seconds. She finished fifth in the 100 m hurdles at the postponed2020 Tokyo Olympics with a time of 12.73 s.[2]
Information from herWorld Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[2]
| Event | Result | Venue | Date | Record | Notes | |||||||||||||
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| 60 metres | 7.19 s i | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 17 February 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| 100 metres | 11.17 s | Hengelo, Netherlands | 2 August 2025 | (Wind: +1.0 m/s) | ||||||||||||||
| 150 metres | 16.94 s | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 8 September 2020 | (Wind: +0.6 m/s) | ||||||||||||||
| 200 metres | 23.38 s | Arnhem, Netherlands | 18 July 2020 | (Wind: +0.4 m/s) | ||||||||||||||
| 300 metres | 40.36 s | Goes, Netherlands | 28 April 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| 800 metres | 2:13.08 min | Talence, France | 20 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| 800 metres short track | 2:21.90 min i | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 5 February 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| 50 metres hurdles | 6.77+ s | Liévin, France | 13 February 2025 | NR | ||||||||||||||
| 60 metres hurdles | 7.72 s i | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 7 March 2025 | NR | ||||||||||||||
| 100 metres hurdles | 12.28 s | Chorzów, Poland | 16 August 2025 | NR | (Wind: +1.1 m/s) | |||||||||||||
| High jump | 1.80 m | Beijing, China | 22 August 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Long jump | 6.48 m | Götzis, Austria | 31 May 2015 | (Wind: +1.1 m/s) | ||||||||||||||
| Shot put | 13.89 m i | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 28 January 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| Javelin throw | 44.01 m | Götzis, Austria | 31 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Heptathlon | 6467 pts | Götzis, Austria | 30–31 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||
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| Pentathlon short track | 4428 pts i | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 5 February 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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| Event | Result | Venue | Date | Record | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 × 100 metres relay | 42.02 s | Madrid, Spain | 28 June 2025 | NR | Teamed withMinke Bisschops,Lieke Klaver, andMarije van Hunenstijn. Visser ran the first leg. |
| Achievements | ||
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| Preceded by | Women's season's best performance, 100 m hurdles 2020 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Women's season's best performance, 60 m hurdles 2021 | Succeeded by |
