BROERSEN Nadine

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Heptathlon
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	13th (6300)
2012	London, GBR	11th (6319)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Heptathlon
2019	Doha, QAT	6th (6392)
2017	London, GBR	DNF
2015	Beijing, CHN	4th (6491)
2013	Moscow, RUS	10th (6224)

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
8	2017	Javelin Throw	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	47.78

World Combined Events Challenge

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Heptathlon	2017	Monzon, ESP	6326
3	Heptathlon	2019	Ratingen, GER	6232
6	Heptathlon	2019	Doha, QAT	6392
7	Heptathlon	2019	Gotzis, AUT	6297
DNF	Heptathlon	2021	Gotzis, AUT	DNF
DNF	Heptathlon	2017	Talence, FRA	DNF
DNF	Heptathlon	2017	London, GBR	DNF
DNF	Heptathlon	2017	Gotzis, AUT	DNF

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Athlete

Cultural Studies - Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands

Husband Koen Swanen

Dutch, English

AV Sprint [Breda, NED]

Ronald Vetter [personal], NED

Her husband Koen Swanen has played football at amateur club level in the Netherlands. (bndestem.nl, 23 May 2020)

She suffered a posterior cruciate ligament [PCL] injury to her right knee in 2017, and returned to competition in May 2018. (Instagram profile, 24 Jan 2018, 11 Apr 2018; worldathletics.org, 21 Feb 2021)

In February 2016 she tore the posterior cruciate ligament [PCL] in her knee. The injury ended her indoor season early, which meant she missed the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland, OR, United States of America. (rtvnh.nl, 26 Feb 2016)

She had to withdraw from the pentathlon at the 2015 European Indoor Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, because of an injury to her left ankle. She had initially sustained the injury two weeks earlier in the high jump at the 2015 Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. (telegraaf.nl, 06 Mar 2015; omroepbrabant.nl, 22 Feb 2015)

She took up athletics at age nine with ATV Atledo in Dongen, Netherlands. (supersportevents.nl, 18 Aug 2014)

A primary school teacher encouraged her to try athletics as she was hyperactive as a child. (nadinebroersen.nl, 01 Nov 2007)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 30 Jan 2021)

Dutch footballer Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch heptathlete Karin Ruckstuhl. (losseveter.nl, 18 May 2010; worldathletics.org, 28 May 2014)

Her family. (internetbode.nl, 04 Aug 2015)

"Just do it." (supersportevents.nl, 30 Sep 2015)

She was named Sportswoman of the Year in Breda, Netherlands, in 2012, 2013 and 2014. (bndestem.nl, 07 Feb 2015; bredavandaag.nl, 08 Feb 2014, 25 Jan 2013)