Netherlands_at_the_2011_World_Championships_in_Athletics

Netherlands at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

Netherlands at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics

Sporting event delegation


The Netherlands competed at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics from August 27 to September 4 in Daegu, South Korea.

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Team selection

A team of 20 athletes was announced to represent the country in the event. The team will be led by top sprinter Churandy Martina, fourth in the 2008 Olympic Games 100m,[1] who had to find a new home because of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, and the refusal by the IOC to allow membership of Curaçao due to 1995 decision that membership is only open to sovereign countries (see here).

The following athletes appeared on the preliminary Entry List,[2] but not on the Official Start List of the specific event,[3] resulting in a total number of 17 competitors:

KEY: Did not participate Competed in another event
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Results

Men

Eelco Sintnicolaas was the most successful Dutch athlete in Daegu with a fifth-place finish in the decathlon
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Decathlon

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Women

19-year-old Dafne Schippers set a national record in the 200 metres
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Heptathlon

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References

  1. Latest World Championships news: Finland, Hungary and the Netherlands teams, European Athletics, August 15, 2011, archived from the original on August 21, 2011, retrieved August 15, 2011
  2. IAAF (August 21, 2011), Entry Lists by Country (PDF), retrieved August 21, 2011
  3. IAAF, Athletes participating per day, archived from the original on May 31, 2012, retrieved September 11, 2011

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