Diane van Es
.jpg) Van Es at the 2021 European Team Championships in Cluj-Napoca | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Diane Gabriëlla van Es |
| Born | 22 March 1999 Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Middle-, Long-distance running |
Diane van Es (Dutch: [diˈjaːnə vɑn ˈɛs]; born 22 March 1999)[2] is a Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. She won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2024 European Championships and the bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships.
Van Es is the Dutch record holder for the 10 km road race. She won four national titles (5000 m, 10 km).
Career
[edit]Diane Van Es competed internationally at youth level, winning the 3000 metres at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival held in Tbilisi,[3] and placing 12th in that event at the 2017 European Under-20 Championships in Grosseto two years later.
In 2019, she represented Netherlands in the 5000 metres final at the European U23 Championships held in Gävle and was part of the gold medal-winning women's U23 Dutch team at the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon.[4]
Van Es established herself in the senior ranks with a 5000 m win at the 2020 Dutch Athletics Championships.[5]
On 29 May 2021, she set a 5000 m personal best of 15:07.52 during the Next Generation Athletics meeting in Nijmegen, which qualified her for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[6][7]
She won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2024 European Championships in Rome on 11 June 2024, running a personal best time of 30:57.24.[8][9]
Achievements
[edit]
All information from World Athletics profile.[2]
International competitions
[edit]Personal bests
[edit]- 1500 metres – 4:09.74 (Pfungstadt 2022)
- 1500 metres indoor – 4:14.81 (Dortmund 2022)
- 3000 metres – 8:49.55 (Chorzów 2022)
- 3000 metres indoor – 9:01.32 (Apeldoorn 2021)
- 5000 metres – 15:07.52 (Nijmegen 2021)
- 10,000 metres – 30:57.24 (Rome 2024)
- Road
- 5 kilometres – 15:54 (Vienna 2021)
- 10 kilometres – 30.29 (Schoorl 2023) NR
- 10 miles – 54:44 (Amsterdam 2022)
- Half marathon – 1:10:50 (Breda 2022)
National titles
[edit]- Dutch Athletics Championships
- 5000 metres: 2020, 2022, 2024
- Dutch 10 km Championships
- 10 km: 2023
References
[edit]- ^ "van Es Diane". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Diane VAN ES – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ Athletics Results. Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 6 August 2015.
- ^ SPAR European Cross Country Championships - Lisbon 2019 Results. European Athletics. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ 2020 Dutch Championships Results. Atletiek. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Results 5.000 m. Next Generation Atrhletics". Atletiek.nu. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
- ^ "Sport Studies student Diane van Es runs her way to the Olympics". The Hague University of Applied Sciences. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ Ingle, Sean. "Daryll Neita misses out on 200m gold by 0.01sec … after thinking she had won". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
- ^ Poole, Harry (11 June 2024). "'Distraught' Neita wins European 200m silver". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Diane van Es at World Athletics
- Diane van Es at European Athletics
- Diane van Es at Olympedia
- Diane van Es at Olympics.com
- Diane van Es at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- Diane van Es at Atletiek.nl (in Dutch)
- Diane Gabriëlla van Es on Instagram
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Athletes from Rotterdam
- Dutch female long-distance runners
- Dutch Athletics Championships winners
- Dutch female cross country runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for the Netherlands
- 21st-century Dutch women
- 21st-century Dutch people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Dutch sportswomen