N'Ketia_Seedo

N'Ketia Seedo

N'Ketia Seedo

Dutch sprinter

N'ketia Seedo (Dutch: [nəˈkeːtiaː 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.

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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.[6]

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,[7] before going fractionally better running 11.15 s in the final.[8]

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.[9]

Senior

Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she qualified for the semi-final of the 100 metres.[10]

She reached the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[11]

She ran as part of the Dutch 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[12]

Personal bests

Information based on her World Athletics profile.[13]

Individual events

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Team events

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Notes

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

References

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    "N'ketia Seedo", Instagram. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  2. [2]
    "N'ketia Seedo" (in Dutch), Houseofsports.nl. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Video's - 15-jarige Seedo breekt records: "Naar de Olympische Spelen en goud halen" Suriname trots". 17 February 2019.
  4. [4]
    "N'ketia Seedo is terug: 'Wel aan mezelf getwijfeld'". rtvutrecht.nl.
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    "Who is N'ketia Seedo". Houseofsports.nl.
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    "SPRINT CANNON N'KETIA SEEDO INDOOR CHAMPION AT 60 METERS". ogcleanfuels.com.
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    "Qualifying action heats up and decathlon reaches crescendo on second morning in Cali". World Athletics.
  8. [8]
    "Day Three Report from the World Athletics Junior Championships Cali 2022". Watchathletics.com.
  9. [9]
    "Dutch relay teams at European Athletics Championships outside of medals at 4×100 meters". paudaul.com.
  10. [10]
    "Women's 100m Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  11. [11]
    "Women's 60m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
  12. [12]
    "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  13. [13]
    "N'Ketia Seedo", World Athletics, 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  14. [14]
    "Results 4 x 100m Relay Women", Diamond League, 23 July 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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