Naomi Sedney

Naomi Sedney

Naomi Sedney and Dafne Schippers in Beijing 2015

nation

Netherlands

birthday

17th December 1994 (age 25)

place of birth

Zoetermeer , the Netherlands

size

170 cm

Weight

65 kg

job

Student

Career

discipline

100 m , 200 m

Best performance

11.34 s 24.13 s

Trainer

Stefan Bal, Rogier Ummels, Rana Reider

status

active

Medal table

European championships	1 ×	1 ×	0 ×
Junior European Championships	0 ×	0 ×	1 ×

European championships
gold	Amsterdam 2016	4 × 100 m
silver	Berlin 2018	4 × 100 m
Junior European Championships
bronze	Rieti 2013	4 × 100 m

last change: August 14, 2018

Naomi Sedney (born December 17, 1994 in Zoetermeer ) is a Dutch sprinter .

Career

In 2011 Naomi Sedney won the relay gold medal at the European Youth Festival. In 2012, she also reached the finals of the Junior World Championships with the relay and took sixth place there. The following year she won the bronze medal at the Junior European Championships . At the U23 European Championships in 2015 in Tallinn , Estonia , she just missed a medal in fourth place over 100 meters and with the relay. However, with her achievements for these two disciplines, she was able to qualify for the 2015 World Championships. In both competitions, however, she was eliminated in the preliminary round.

At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , the city of her birth , she won the relay gold medal with a new national record and thus celebrated her greatest success to date. Over 100 meters, she reached the semi-finals with a season best. At the Olympic Games , she failed with the Dutch relay in the preliminary round.

Sedney studies psychology at the University of Leiden .

Top performances

100 meters: 11.25 s (+0.8 m / s), on March 31, 2017 in Gainesville
- 60 meters (hall): 7.28 s, on February 11, 2016 in Apeldoorn
200 meters: 23.42 s (−0.5 m / s), on May 20, 2017 in Tübingen
- Hall: 23.46 s, on February 28, 2016 in Apeldoorn