Lisanne de Witte

Laura de Witte
Lisanne de Witte in Berlin 2018
nation	Netherlands
birthday	10th September 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Vlaardingen , the Netherlands
size	175 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	50.77 s
society	AV triad
Trainer	Sven Ootjers
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships bronze Berlin 2018 400 m  European Indoor Championships bronze Glasgow 2019 400 m
last change: February 8, 2020

Laura de Witte (born September 10, 1992 in Vlaardingen ) is a Dutch sprinter who has specialized in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Lisanne de Witte gained her first international experience in 2009 at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Tampere , where she was eliminated in the first round with 57.43 s. In 2011 she took part in the Dutch 4 x 400 meter relay at the Junior European Championships in Tallinn , where she finished fourth with a new U23 record of 3: 37.44 min. At the U23 European Championships in Tampere in 2013, she reached the final in the individual competition over 400 meters, where she finished eighth in 53.97 s. The following year she took part in the World Indoor Championships in Sopot and would have qualified third in the semifinals for the final race, but the American team protested that one of their athletes was said to have been blocked. The protest was then granted.

In 2016, de Witte qualified over 400 meters for the European Championships in her home town of Amsterdam and reached the semi-finals there, where she was eliminated with 52.37 seconds. In addition, she took seventh place in the season with 3: 29.23 min. With this season she also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . There she was eliminated in the preliminary round , but set a new Dutch record with 3: 26.98 minutes. The following year she reached the semifinals at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and was eliminated there with 54.81 s in the semifinals. In August, at the World Championships in Lodon, the end of the preliminary round , in which she completed the stadium round in 52.48 s. Even with the season she could not qualify for the finals . In 2018 she won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Berlin with a new Dutch record of 50.77 seconds behind Polish Justyna Święty-Ersetic and Maria Belimbasaki from Greece. Then she finished fourth in the Continental Cup in Ostrava in 51.41 s and was disqualified from the European relay. The following year she won the bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 52.34 s behind the Swiss Léa Sprunger and Cynthia Bolingo Mbongo from Belgium. At the end of September she reached the semi-finals at the World Championships in Doha , where she was eliminated with 51.41 s. In addition, she placed seventh in the season with 3: 27.89 minutes in the final . Before that, she won the relay at the World Relays in Yokohama with 3: 29.03 min in the B final.

From 2015 to 2017 and 2019, de Witte was the Dutch champion in the 400-meter run outdoors and in 2016 also indoors. She also won the 200-meter indoor championships in 2019 . Her sister Laura de Witte is also active as a sprinter.

Personal best

• 200 meters: 24.59 s (+0.5 m / s), June 30, 2013 in Lier
  • 200 meters (hall): 23.67 s, February 17, 2019 in Apeldoorn
• 400 meters: 50.77 s, August 11, 2018 in Berlin ( Dutch record )
  • 400 meters (hall): 51.90 s, February 8, 2020 in Toruń

Web links

Commons : Lisanne de Witte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lisanne de Witte in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lisanne de Witte in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )