Nienke Brinkman
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_2021.jpg) Nienke Brinkman in 2021 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 October 1993 Jakarta, Indonesia | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Marathon, Mountain running | ||||||||||||||
| Team | NN Running Team | ||||||||||||||
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Nienke Brinkman (pronounced [ˈniŋkə ˈbrɪŋkmɑn]; born 28 October 1993) is a Dutch long-distance runner, both on the road as well as on trails. She won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, which was her first international medal, and has a personal best of 2:22:51 which she ran at the Rotterdam Marathon.[1]
Nienke Brinkman was brought up in Leiderdorp in the South Holland province. She was born on born 28 October 1993[1]in Jakarta, Indonesia, where her Dutch parents were briefly living. She was a keen field hockey player and played in the Dutch National League 2 as a midfielder.[2] After moving to Zürich to complete a PhD in geophysics, Brinkman discovered that field hockey was only a fringe sport in Switzerland, and began to run as a hobby.[3]
