Jorinde van Klinken

Jorinde van Klinken
Jorinde van Klinken in Tampere 2018
nation	Netherlands
birthday	2nd February 2000 (age 20)
Career
discipline	Shot put , discus throw
Best performance	17.76 m, 61.33 m
society	Groningen Atletiek
Trainer	Gert Damkat
status	active
Medal table
U20 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 European Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
U20 world championships bronze Tampere 2018 17.05 m  U20 European Championships silver Grosseto 2017 16.89 m gold Borås 2019 17.39 m
last change: January 22nd, 2020

Jorinde van Klinken (born February 2, 2000 ) is a Dutch athlete who competes in the shot put and discus throw .

Athletic career

Jorinde van Klinken gained her first international experience in 2016 when she was eliminated from qualification at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz with a width of 14.31 m and finished tenth in the discus throw with 49.15 m. The following year she won the silver medal in the shot put at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto with 16.89 m and finished sixth in the discus competition with 51.53 m. In 2018 she won the bronze medal in the shot put at the U20 World Championships in Tampere with 17.05 m and was seventh with the discus with 50.61 m. In the discus throw she managed to qualify for the European Championships in Berlin , but did not reach the final there with 54.33 m. In 2019 she won the U20 European Championships in Borås, Sweden with 17.39 m and was eliminated from the qualification with the discus with 47.67 m. Then she took part in the discus throw at the World Championships in Doha and was eliminated there with 58.58 m in the qualification .

In 2019 van Klinken became Dutch indoor champion in the shot put.

Personal best

• Shot put: 17.76 m, June 1, 2019 in Halle
  • Shot put (hall): 17.05 m, February 11, 2018 in Apeldoorn
• Discus throw: 61.33 m, June 30, 2019 in Alphen aan den Rijn

Web links

Commons : Jorinde van Klinken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jorinde van Klinken in the database of World Athletics (English)