Lieke Klaver
Lieke Klaver (born 20 August 1998)[2] is a Dutch track and field athlete who specializes in sprint races. She finished fourth in the 400 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Klaver won the silver medal for the event at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She earned five major medals as part of Dutch 4 × 400 m relays, either women's or mixed, including silver for the mixed relay at the 2022 World Championships.
![]() Klaver at the 2023 European Indoor Championships in Istanbul | |
Personal information | |
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Born | Velsen, Netherlands | 20 August 1998
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
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Country | Netherlands |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | 200 metres, 400 metres |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | |
Medal record |
Klaver represented Netherlands at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She took four national titles.
Career
Lieke Klaver represented Netherlands at the 2019 World Athletics Championships, competing in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay.[3]
She represented Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, competing in the women's 400 metres and both the women's and mixed 4 × 400 m relays.[4]
In February 2022, at the Dutch Indoor Championships, she set a new personal best for the 400 metres in a time of 51.20 seconds.[5] During the summer season Klaver lowered greatly her outdoor pre-2022 best (50.98 s) down to 50.18 seconds at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, finishing fourth in the final.[2]
In February 2023, in the 400 m race at the Dutch Indoors in which compatriot Femke Bol set a world record of 49.26 s, Klaver massively lowered her lifetime indoor best by nearly 0.7 s down to 50.34 s, putting her joint 13th on the respective world all-time list. Only two-time Olympic champion, Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas, and Bol had run faster indoors since 2007.[6][7] The following month, Klaver won her first individual major medal, with silver for the 400 m at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul.[2]
Statistics


International competitions
Personal bests
- 100 metres – 11.46 (+0.5 m/s, Oordegem, Lede 2019)
- 200 metres – 22.66 (+1.3 m/s, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2020)
- 200 metres indoor – 22.97 (Metz 2023)
- 400 metres – 50.18 (Eugene, OR 2022)
- 400 metres indoor – 50.34 (Apeldoorn 2023)
- Relays
- 4 × 400 metres relay – 3:20.87 (Munich 2022) NR
- 4 × 400 metres relay mixed – 3:09.90 (Eugene, OR 2022) NR
National titles
- Dutch Athletics Championships
- 200 metres: 2020, 2022
- Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships
- 200 metres: 2017
- 400 metres: 2020
Notes
- Dutch team ran 3:27.40 in the heats
- Dutch team without Klaver ran 3:28.40 in the heats
- Time from the heats; Klaver was replaced in the final in which Dutch team clocked 3:21.02
References
- "IMM - LIEKE KLAVER". immbruxelles.com. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- "Lieke KLAVER – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- "4x400 Metres Relay women. IAAF World Athletics Championships, DOHA 2019". iaaf.org. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- "Lieke Klaver – Biographical information". Olympedia.org. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- "Bol, Kambundji and Dongmo impress on busy national indoor championships weekend". World Athletics. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- "All time Top lists – 400 metres Women – Senior Indoor | until 2023-02-19". World Athletics. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- Mills, Steven (19 February 2023). "World record! Bol clocks 49.26 at the Dutch Indoor Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
External links

- Lieke Klaver at World Athletics
- Lieke Klaver at Olympics.com
- Lieke Klaver at Olympedia