Lieke Klaver – Wikipedia
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Dutch runner
Lieke Klaver (born 20 August 1998)[2] is a Dutch track and field athlete who specializes in sprint races. She finished fourth in the 400 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Klaver won the silver medal for the event at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She earned five major medals as part of Dutch 4 × 400 m relays, either women’s or mixed, including silver for the mixed relay at the 2022 World Championships.
Klaver represented Netherlands at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She took four national titles.
Lieke Klaver represented Netherlands at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in the women’s 4 × 400 metres relay.[3]
She represented Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, competing in the women’s 400 metres and both the women’s and mixed 4 × 400 metres relays.[4]
In February 2022, at the Dutch Indoor Championships, she set a new personal best for the 400 metres in a time of 51.20 seconds.[5] During the summer season Klaver lowered greatly her outdoor pre-2022 best (50.98 s) down to 50.18 seconds at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, finishing fourth in the final.[2]
In February 2023, at the Dutch Indoors in the 400 m race in which compatriot Femke Bol set a world record of 49.26 s, Klaver massively lowered by nearly 0.7 s her lifetime indoor best down to 50.34 s, putting her 13th on the respective world all-time list. Only two-time Olympic champion, Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas, and Bol had run faster indoors since 2007.[6][7] The following month, Klaver won her first individual major medal, with silver for the 400 m at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul.[2]
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International competitions[edit]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 8th (h) | 4 x 100 m relay | 45.29 | |
| 2015 | European Junior Championships | Eskilstuna, Sweden | 6th | 200 m | 23.69 | |
| – | 4 x 100 m relay | DNF | ||||
| 2016 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | – | 4 x 100 m relay | DNF | |
| 2017 | European Junior Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 6th | 200 m | 24.06 | |
| 8th | 4 x 100 m relay | 45.61 | ||||
| 2019 | World Relays | Yokohama, Japan | 7th | 4 x 400 m relay | 3:29.03 | (1st in Final B) |
| European Team Championships, 1st League | Sandnes, Norway | 3rd | 4 x 400 m relay | 3:33.97 | ||
| World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 7th | 4 x 400 m relay | 3:27.89 | [n 1] | |
| 2021 | European Indoor Championships | Toruń, Poland | 5th | 400 m i | 52.03 | |
| 1st | 4 x 400 m relay i | 3:27.15 | EL CR NR | |||
| World Relays | Chorzów, Poland | 4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:30.12 | [n 2] | |
| 8th | 4 × 400 m mixed | 3:18.04 | NR [n 3] | |||
| European Team Championships, 1st League | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 2nd | 200 m | 23.32 | ||
| 1st | 4 x 100 m relay | 43.38 | ||||
| Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 18th (sf) | 400 m | 51.37 | ||
| 6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:23.74 | NR | |||
| 4th | 4 × 400 m mixed | 3:10.36 | NR | |||
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 6th | 400 m i | 52.67 | |
| 2nd | 4 x 400 m relay i | 3:28.57 | SB | |||
| World Championships | Eugene, OR, United States | 4th | 400 m | 50.33 | (NRs h / sf) | |
| – | 4 × 400 m relay | DQ | ||||
| 2nd | 4 × 400 m mixed | 3:09.90 | NR | |||
| European Championships | Munich, Germany | 5th | 200 m | 22.88 | ||
| 6th | 400 m | 50.56 | ||||
| 1st | 4×400 m relay | 3:20.87 | EL NR (49.2 split) | |||
| 2023 | European Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 2nd | 400 m i | 50.57 | |
| 1st | 4 x 400 m relay i | 3:25.66 | CR NR |
Personal bests[edit]
- Relays
National titles[edit]
- ^ Dutch team ran 3:27.40 in the heats
- ^ Dutch team without Klaver ran 3:28.40 in the heats
- ^ Time from the heats; Klaver was replaced in the final in which Dutch team clocked 3:21.02
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