HOLTERMAN Jill

Netherlands
Athletics
11 Sep 1991
29
Female
ZAANDAM
 
Netherlands
EGMOND AAN DEN HOEF
 
Netherlands

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Women's Marathon 63

Schedule

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Start Time Location Event Status
Sapporo Odori Park
Women's Marathon Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Athlete
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Law - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Husband Ronald Schroer
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Dutch, English
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Gerard van Lent [personal]
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Her husband Ronald Schroer represented the Netherlands in the marathon at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich, Switzerland. (jillholterman.nl, 18 Apr 2021; worldathletics.org, 17 Aug 2014; SportsDeskOnline, 27 May 2021)
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In March 2021 she suffered a thigh injury less than a month before the 2021 Enschede Marathon in the Netherlands. Following physiotherapy, she recovered a week and a half before the race and competed in Enschede. (volkskrant.nl, 28 Apr 2021)

In 2020 she struggled with an Achilles tendon injury but recovered in time to run the 2020 Valencia Marathon in Spain. (jillholterman.nl, 07 Dec 2020)
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She joined AV Zaanland in the Netherlands at age 12. She began training in a running group at age 15. (jillholterman.nl, 18 Apr 2021)
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When she first joined an athletics club she did not enjoy disciplines other than running, so later joined a running group led by her first coach Jan Eising. (jillholterman.nl, 18 Apr 2021)
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To compete at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. (jillholterman.nl, 06 Dec 2020, 18 Apr 2021)

General Interest

General
PREVIOUS OCCUPATION
Between 2015 and 2019 she worked as a lawyer at a firm in Alkmaar, Netherlands, specialising in employment, contract and liability law. She left her job to focus on running and qualifying for the Olympic Games. "I can work all my life, but running at the top level is now or never. Although I had a largely sedentary profession, I was also stressed from deadlines. Sometimes I had to work in the evenings, sometimes on weekends. I had to go for a run earlier, otherwise I wouldn't be on time for work. That causes stress and that is also an extra burden on the body. I had symptoms of exhaustion." After initially struggling with full-time running, she decided to do some legal work on a freelance basis. "I didn't have the stress and the responsibilities as a [full-time] lawyer, but a little more certainty in terms of income. When you look from a distance it looks like a fairytale. But that is really the tip of the iceberg that people see. So much happens underneath. There have been ups and downs." (Facebook profile, 26 Apr 2021; jillholterman.nl, 06 Dec 2020; nosl.nl, 26 Apr 2021; eenvandaag.avrotros.nl, 25 Apr 2021; LinkedIn profile, 01 Feb 2021)

COVID-19 IMPACT
She initially was aiming to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, but after the postponement of the 2020 Games in Tokyo and the lack of races and prize money due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she decided to begin marathon training early with the aim of qualifying for the 2020 Games. "Things have gone faster than expected. If I quit my work as a lawyer and said, 'I'm going to Tokyo', it would have been fanciful. I like to dare to dream and to set goals, but I don't say things that I don't believe. It wasn't credible, wasn't realistic, but Paris was. Covid changed everything. I was given extra time and slowly I started to believe I could make it to Tokyo." (ad.nl, 22 Apr 2021)

FURTHER EDUCATION
She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 2014 with a master's degree in employment law. (victoradvocaten.nl, 01 Sep 2020; LinkedIn profile, 01 Feb 2021)

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