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Olympic Games

Year	Location	FX	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	40	7

World Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	AA	Team
2018	Doha, QAT	134	59	41	40	10
2014	Nanning, CHN	-	42	38	172	10
2013	Antwerp, BEL	-	42	57	-	-

European Championships

Year	Location	BB	FX	UB	Team
2018	Glasgow, GBR	19	36	13	3

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	AA
2018	1 x 6th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
6	2018	All-Around	Birmingham, GBR	51.032

Legend
BB - Balance Beam, FX - Floor Excercise, UB - Uneven Bars, VT - Vault, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Shopping, cooking. (zakenblad.nl, 25 Mar 2016)

Athlete

Dutch, English

Topsport Noord [Heerenveen, NED]

Bram van Bokhoven [national], NED; Vincent Wevers [personal], NED

Her sister Nadieh represented the Netherlands in artistic gymnastics at the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Chinese Taipei. (folia.nl, 14 Aug 2017)

She underwent surgery for a stress fracture in her left foot in February 2019. The injury forced her to miss the 2019 European Championships in Poland. (dvhn.nl, 18 Feb 2019; eng.gymnovosti.com, 14 Mar 2019)

After the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she suffered from a toe fracture. (folia.nl, 14 Aug 2017)

She first tried gymnastics at age four. (zakenblad.nl, 25 Mar 2016)

Her mother was advised to enrol her in gymnastics after one of her teachers spotted her potential. (kngu.nl, 30 May 2016; zakenblad.nl, 25 Mar 2016)

She trains for about 30 hours per week. (gaanvoorgoud.nl, 2021)

Finishing seventh in the team final at the 2016 Olympic Games, taking bronze in the team final at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, and winning the Dutch all-around title three times. (gaanvoorgoud.nl, 2021)

"Do it with passion, or not at all." (gaanvoorgoud.nl, 2021)

In 2015 she was named Sportswoman of the Year in Weert, Netherlands. She was also named Sportswoman of the Year for the Amsterdam district of Nieuw-West. (zakenblad.nl, 25 Mar 2016; gaanvoorgoud.nl, 28 Nov 2015)