Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on Google Double world sprint champion Dafne Schippers has announced her retirement at the age of 31, describing her career as ...

Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers rejected any suggestion of doping after she smashed a 36-year-old European record to win the world 200m title with the fourth-fastest run in history on Friday. Schippers, ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Two-time world champion sprinter Dafne Schippers is retiring from track and field at the age of 31. Schippers, a Dutchwoman who won back-to-back world titles in the 200 ...

For the Netherlands, it’s been since 24 years since they’ve won an Olympic medal in Athletics (track & field) and a whopping 64 years since they’ve gotten onto the Olympic podium in either the 100m or ...

One month ahead of the Rio Olympics, Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers is peaking at the right time. Switching to full-time sprinting from heptathlon just a year back, the 24-year-old has been wowing the ...

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With the Rio Olympics two years away, many of the world's best track and field talent was on full display at the European Athletics Championships that ended Sunday. Here are three performances of note ...

BEIJING (AP) — Two years ago, Dafne Schippers was a talented heptathlete earning a bronze medal at the world championships. Now, she is an extremely talented sprinter with a silver medal from the 100 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Dutch coach Bart Bennema sighed and assessed his star pupil. ''She has become a sprinter now,'' he said. What? Dafne Schippers, a sprinter only ''now'' in 2016, a year after she ...