FOPPEN Mike

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	3000m	5000m
2021	-	1 x 11th
2020	1 x 5th	1 x 4th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2020	5000m	Monaco, MON	13:13.06
5	2020	3000m	Rome, ITA	7:39.75
11	2021	5000m	Gateshead, GBR	13:27.33

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
9	2020	1500m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	3:36.01

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, Coach

Radboud University, Nijmegen, NED

Dutch, English

Team Zevenheuvelen [Nijmegen, NED]

Joshua Mols [club]

His sister Kim Foppen has competed in gymnastics at an elite level, while his grandfather Stan de Rijk was a goalkeeper at Dutch football club NAC Breda in the 1960s. (runnersworld.com, 13 Aug 2020)

He sustained a calf injury in March 2019. (omroepgelderland.nl, 16 Mar 2019)

He took up the sport at about age eight. (teamzevenheuvelen.nl, 01 Jan 2020)

"I decided to take part in Next Generation Athletics, a competition I attended through school. I remember that I didn't really like running at all, but I won and decided to take part in some other competitions as well, which I won. It all went fast from then as I took up athletics quickly after." (teamzevenheuvelen.nl, 01 Jan 2020)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (voxweb.nl, 26 May 2021)