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Diane van Es

Diane van Es
Personal information
Full nameDiane Gabriëlla van Es
Born (1999-03-22) 22 March 1999 (age 25)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportAthletics
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

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

Diane van Es finished fourth at the 2023 New York City Half Marathon as the second non-African woman. Pictured at the 2023 Dutch 10 km Championships.

All information from World Athletics profile.[2]

International competitions

Representing the  Netherlands
Year Competition Venue Position Event Result Notes
2015 European Youth Olympic Festival Tbilisi, Georgia 1st 3000 m 9:58.49
2017 European U20 Championships Grosseto, Italy 12th 3000 m 9:55.43
2018 European Cross Country Championships Tilburg, Netherlands 29th U20 race 14:29
2nd U20 team 28 pts
2019 European U23 Championships Gävle, Sweden 13th 5000 m 16:09.28
European Cross Country Championships Lisbon, Portugal 11th U23 race 21:53
1st U23 team 17 pts
2021 European Team Championships First League Cluj-Napoca, Romania 3rd 3000 m 9:07.41 PB
European U23 Championships Bergen, Norway 3rd 5000 m 15:48.4-
Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 33rd (h) 5000 m 15:47.01
European Cross Country Championships Lisbon, Portugal 43rd U23 race 22:25
2022 European Championships Munich, Germany 13th 5000 m 15:26.44
2023 World Championships Budapest, Hungary 13th 10,000 m 32:05.85
2024 European Championships Rome, Italy 2nd 10,000 m 30:57.24 PB
Olympic Games Paris, France 16th 10,000 m 31:25.51

Personal bests

Road

National titles

References

  1. ^ "van Es Diane". olympics.com. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Diane VAN ES – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  3. ^ Athletics Results. Tbilisi2015. Retrieved on 6 August 2015.
  4. ^ SPAR European Cross Country Championships - Lisbon 2019 Results. European Athletics. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  5. ^ 2020 Dutch Championships Results. Atletiek. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Results 5.000 m. Next Generation Atrhletics". Atletiek.nu. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ Ingle, Sean. "Daryll Neita misses out on 200m gold by 0.01sec … after thinking she had won". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  9. ^ Poole, Harry (11 June 2024). "'Distraught' Neita wins European 200m silver". BBC Sport. Retrieved 12 June 2024.