Cathelijn Peeters

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Cathelijn Peeters
Peeters at the 2023 European Indoor Championships
Personal information
Born (1996-11-06) 6 November 1996 (age 27)
Dongen, Netherlands
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event(s)400 m, 400 m hurdles, 4×400 m relay
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking
  • No. 19 (400 mH, 2023)
  • No. 77 (400 m, 2024)
  • No. 366 (overall, 2023)
Personal bests
  • 400 m: 51.08 (2024)
  • 400 mH: 54.31 (2024)
  • Short track
  • 400 m: 52.01 i (2024)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing the  Netherlands
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Budapest 4×400 m relay
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Glasgow 4×400 m relay
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Istanbul 4×400 m relay
European Games
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 400 m hurdles

Cathelijn Peeters (pronounced [ˌkɑtəˈlɛin ˈpeːtərs]; born 6 November 1996) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting and previously competed in the combined events and hammer throw.

Peeters specializes in the 400 metres hurdles, where she won a bronze medal at the 2023 European Games and four national titles at the Dutch Championships in 2020–2023, and in the 400 metres. As part of the Dutch women's 4 × 400 metres relay team, she won gold medals at the 2023 European Indoor Championships, 2023 World Championships, and 2024 World Indoor Championships and she shares the Dutch records outdoor and indoor.

Peeters's highest World Athletics Rankings were No. 19 in the 400 metres hurdles in 2023–2024, No. 77 in the 400 metres in 2024, and No. 366 of women overall in 2023. With the Dutch women's 4 × 400 metres relay team, she won the Dutch Sports Team of the Year award in 2023.

Early life[edit]

Cathelijn Peeters was born on 6 November 1996 in Dongen in the Netherlands.[1][2]

Her cousin Silke Peeters is also a national level hurdler.[3]

Senior career[edit]

2019–2023[edit]

Peeters (center) at the 2021 European Team Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Peeters reached the national podium for the first time at the 2019 Dutch Championships, taking third place in the hurdles. She followed this with wins at the national championships in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.[4]

She set a personal best of 53.34 seconds for the 400 metres, gaining selection for the Dutch relay team at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.[5][6] During the heats of the women's 4 × 400 m relay Peeters dropped the baton, causing the team to be eliminated.[7]

She was a gold medallist in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships, helping break the Dutch record and championship record with a time of 3:25.66 minutes alongside Femke Bol, Lieke Klaver and Eveline Saalberg.[8] On 27 August 2023, the Dutch team continued the success with a gold medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

2024[edit]

Peeters (left) with Lieke Klaver, Femke Bol, and Lisanne de Witte after winning the 4 × 400 m relay final at the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, United Kingdom

On 3 February, she won the 400 m short track in 52.51 s i at the IFAM Indoor Meeting in Ghent, Belgium. On 17 February, she improved her personal best in the 400 m short track to 52.01 s i in the heats of the 2024 Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. On 3 March, she ran the second leg of the 4 × 400 metres relay, where she won a gold medal with Lieke Klaver, Femke Bol, and Lisanne de Witte of the Dutch women's relay team at the 2024 World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, United Kingdom.[1]

On 28 April, she improved her personal best in the 400 m to 51.08 s at the SprintFest in Willemstad, Curaçao. On 4–5 May, she competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. With the Dutch women's team, she qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics in the second qualification round in 3:27.45 min. On 26 May, she won the 400 m hurdles in a new personal best time of 54.32 s at the IFAM Outdoor Meeting in Brussels, Belgium. On 28 May, she won the 400 m hurdles in 54.31 s, further improving her personal best at the Golden Spike Ostrava in Ostrava, Czech Republic.[1]

Personal bests[edit]

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[1]

Individual events[edit]

Type Event Result Venue Date Notes
Outdoor 100 metres 12.02 s Vught, Netherlands 10 September 2023 (Wind: 0.0 m/s)
Willemstad, Curaçao 28 April 2024 (Wind: -0.3 m/s)
200 metres 23.91 s Vught, Netherlands 10 September 2023 (Wind: +1.6 m/s)
400 metres 51.08 s Willemstad, Curaçao 28 April 2024
100 metres hurdles 14.11 s Antwerp, Belgium 21 August 2021 (Wind: +0.4 m/s)
200 metres hurdles 28.63 s Utrecht, Netherlands 9 August 2019 (Wind: +0.5 m/s)
400 metres hurdles 54.31 s Ostrava, Czech Republic 28 May 2024
High jump 1.59 m Gemert, Netherlands 1 June 2019
Long jump 5.23 m Eindhoven, Netherlands 15 July 2018 (Wind: +1.7 m/s)
Shot put 10.18 m Gemert, Netherlands 1 June 2019
Hammer throw 45.80 m Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands 7 August 2021
Javelin throw 27.99 m Gemert, Netherlands 2 June 2019
Heptathlon 4772 pts Gemert, Netherlands 2 June 2019
Indoor 200 metres short track 24.25 s i Dortmund, Germany 6 January 2024
300 metres short track 44.63 s i Ghent, Belgium 2 January 2016
400 metres short track 52.01 s i Apeldoorn, Netherlands 17 February 2024
800 metres short track 2:17.38 min i Ghent, Belgium 11 January 2020
60 metres hurdles 8.83 s i Ghent, Belgium 26 December 2021
High jump 1.55 m i Apeldoorn, Netherlands 3 February 2019
Long jump 5.12 m i Reims, France 16 December 2018
Shot put 10.45 m i Apeldoorn, Netherlands 3 February 2019
Pentathlon short track 3447 pts i Apeldoorn, Netherlands 3 February 2019

Season's bests[edit]

Year 400 m 400 m
indoor 		400 m
hurdles
2013 – – 71.10
2014 – – 67.99
2015 – – –
2016 – 62.25 i 67.19
2017 61.01 60.57 i 65.24
2018 – 59.31 i 62.53
2019 57.37 58.21 i 59.80
2020 57.94 56.78 i 60.25
2021 56.50 55.76 i 58.17
2022 53.34 53.56 i 56.03
2023 51.73 52.94 i 54.56
2024 51.08 52.01 i 54.31

Key:   Lifetime best (in bold)

Team events[edit]

Type Event Time m:s Venue Date Record Notes
Outdoor 4 × 400 m relay women 3:20.72 Budapest, Hungary 27 August 2023 NR Teamed with Eveline Saalberg, Lieke Klaver, and Femke Bol.[9] Peeters' split time for the third leg was 51.37 seconds.[9][10]
Indoor 4 × 400 m relay women 3:25.66 i Istanbul, Turkey 5 March 2023 NR Third national team of all time.[11] Teamed with Lieke Klaver, Eveline Saalberg, and Femke Bol.[12] Peeters' split time for the third leg was 53.14 seconds.[12]

Competition results[edit]

Information from her World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted.[1]

World Athletics Rankings[edit]

Highest overall and event World Athletics Rankings per year.

Year 200 m 400 m 100 m
hurdles 		400 m
hurdles 		Heptathlon Overall
2019 – 1591[13] – 304[14] 574[15] 5930[16]
2020 – 1300[17] – 321[18] 568[19] 5716[20]
2021 – 967[21] 910[22] 140[23] 594[24] 2776[25]
2022 1556[26] 304[27] 907[28] 62[29] – 1198[30]
2023 – 126[31] – 19[32] – 366[33]
2024 – 77[34] – 19[35] – 382[36]

Key:   Lifetime best (in bold)

International competitions[edit]

Representing the  Netherlands
Year Competition Venue Position Event Result Notes
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States — 4 × 400 m relay DQ TR24.6
2023 European Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:25.66 CR NR
European Games Kraków, Poland 3rd 400 m hurdles 54.97
European Team Championships (1st Division)
World Championships Budapest, Hungary 14th (sf) 400 m hurdles 54.63
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:20.72 WL NR
2024 World Indoor Championships Glasgow, United Kingdom 1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:25.07
World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 10th[37] (h) 4 × 400 m relay 3:28:10

Circuit wins[edit]

400 metres hurdles wins, times (in seconds) specified in parentheses:
400 metres short track wins, times (in seconds) specified in parentheses:
  • 2024 (1): Ghent International Flanders Athletics Meeting Indoor (52.59 i)

National championships[edit]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Time
2017 Dutch Championships Utrecht 6th in heats 400 m hurdles 1:07.60
2018 Dutch Indoor Combined Events Championships Apeldoorn 9th Pentathlon sh 3220 pts i
Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 5th in heats 400 m sh 60.46 i
2019 Dutch Indoor Combined Events Championships Apeldoorn 13th Pentathlon sh 3447 pts i
Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 4th in heats 400 m sh 58.42 i
Dutch Championships The Hague 3rd 400 m hurdles 59.80
2020 Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 3rd in heats 400 m sh 56.78 i
Dutch Championships Utrecht 1st 400 m hurdles 1:00.32
Dutch Combined Event Championships Emmeloord 7th Heptathlon 4706 pts
2021 Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 4th in heats 200 m sh 25.96 i
4th in heats 400 m sh 57.02 i
Dutch Championships Breda 1st 400 m hurdles 58.17
2022 Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 6th 400 m sh 54.48 i
Dutch Championships Apeldoorn 1st 400 m hurdles 56.51
2023 Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 3rd 400 m sh 53.11 i
Dutch Championships Breda 1st 400 m hurdles 54.95
2024 Dutch Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 3rd 400 m sh 52.08 i

References[edit]

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