Former two-time world 200m champion Dafne Schippers will compete in the FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherland on June 6.
The meet, a World Athletics Challenge Tour Gold event, will be Schippers’ first individual race of 2021. She ran the 4x100m relays for Netherland at the Chorzów 2021 World Relay,s earlier this month.
Schippers, whose first sub-11 came at this meeting in 2015, told Telegraaf: “Hengelo is really my race. Running in front of your own audience gives something extra, and it is the only international meeting in the Netherlands.”
Schippers’ was considering the long jump at the end of the 2015 season.
Schippers’ achievements below:
| 2 World Titles |
| 2015: 200 2017: 200 |
| 200m Olympic Silver Medallist 2016 |
| 100m World Championships Silver Medallist 2015 |
| 60m World Indoor Silver Medallist 2016 |
| 2 World Championships Bronzes |
| 2013: Hep 2017: 100 |
| 4 European Golds |
| 2014: 100, 200 2016: 100, 4×1 |
| 60m European Indoor Champion 2015 |
| 3 European Silvers |
| 2012: 4×1 2018: 200, 4×1 |
| 60m European Indoor Silver Medallist 2019 |
| 100m European Bronze Medallist 2018 |
| 100m 5th at Olympic Games 2016 |
| 60m 5th at World Indoor Championships 2018 |
| 4 x 100m 6th at Olympic Games 2012 |
| 4 x 100m 8th at World Championships 2017 |
| Heptathlon Olympic finalist 2012 |
| Heptathlon World Junior Champion 2010 |
| 4 x 100m World Junior Championships Bronze Medallist 2010 |
| 100m European U23 Champion 2013 |
| Heptathlon European Junior Champion 2011 |
| Long Jump European U23 Championships Bronze Medallist 2013 |
| 20 National Titles |