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N'Ketia Seedo

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N'ketia Seedo (Dutch: [nəˈkeːtijaː ˈseːdoː]; born 7 June 2003) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in sprint races. She won the Dutch national indoor championships over 60 metres in 2020, 2022 and 2023.

NationalityDutch
Born (2003-06-07) 7 June 2003 (age 23)
Utrecht, Netherlands
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N'ketia Seedo
Seedo in 2022
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (2003-06-07) 7 June 2003 (age 23)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Sport
SportTrack and field
Events
60 m, 100 m, 200 m
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Netherlands
European Games
Gold medal – first place2023 Kraków-Małopolska4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place2023 Kraków-Małopolska100 m
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 Espoo100 m
World U20 Championships
Bronze medal – third place2022 Cali100 m
European U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place2019 Borås100 m
Silver medal – second place2019 Borås4×100 m relay
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Early life

N'ketia[note 1] Seedo is born on 7 June 2003 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She is of Surinamese descent.[3]

Career

Youth

Seedo was racing and beating senior athletes from an early age. She was 15 years old when she finished third at the Dutch indoor national championships 60 m race, behind Schippers and Jamile Samuel in 2019.[4]

She was runner-up in the 100 metres, running 11.40 seconds, at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden, losing in a photo finish to Vittoria Fontana who was also clocked at 11.40 s. She also claimed a silver at that championships in the 4 × 100 m relay.[5]

Seedo won the Dutch 60 m indoor title for a second time in 7.24 seconds in 2020, the second-fastest time by a junior of all time and the European U18 best, a record that would last until 2025 when it was broken by Kelly Doualla.[6][7]

Junior

Seedo won the Dutch 60 m indoor title for a third time in 2022.[4]

Seedo won bronze at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in the 100 m at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, in Cali in August 2022, running 11.16 s, a new national under-20 record, in the heats,[8] before going fractionally better running 11.15 s in the final.[9]

She was a member of the Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team that finished fifth at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in August 2022 in Munich.[10]

Senior

Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she qualified for the semi-final of the 100 metres.[11]

She reached the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[12]

She ran as part of the Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[13]

Personal bests

Information based on her World Athletics profile.[14]

Individual events

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Personal best times for individual events
Type Event Time (s) Venue Date Notes
Outdoor 100 metres 11.11 Budapest, Hungary 20 August 2023 (Wind: -0.4 m/s)
150 metres 16.73 w Lisse, Netherlands 13 May 2023 Wind-assisted: +2.6 m/s
200 metres 23.44 Oordegem, Belgium 27 May 2023 (Wind: +0.2 m/s)
Indoor 60 metres 7.15 i Düsseldorf, Germany 4 February 2024
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Team events

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Personal best times for team events
Type Event Time (s) Venue Date Notes
Outdoor 4 × 100 metres relay 42.38 London, United Kingdom 23 July 2023 Teamed with Marije van Hunenstijn, Jamile Samuel, and Tasa Jiya.[15]
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Notes

  1. Both Seedo and her sports management capitalize her first name as N'ketia.[1][2]

References

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