N'Ketia Seedo

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.

N'ketia Seedo
Seedo in 2022
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (2003-06-07) 7 June 2003
Utrecht, Netherlands
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event(s)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

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]

Personal bests

Information based on her World Athletics profile.[11]

Individual events
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 7.18 i Apeldoorn, Netherlands 18 February 2023

Team events
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.[12]

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

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