Elise de Jong
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| Born | 8 April 2006 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Pole vault: 4.50 m (2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Elise de Jong (born 8 April 2006) is a Dutch pole vaulter. She became the European under-20 champion in 2025.[1]
Career
She is from Rotterdam and started in athletics at the age of nine years-old having come from a gymnastics background. She is a member of PAC Rotterdam as well as training at AAV'36 in Alphen aan den Rijn. She competed in multi-events as well as pole vault before focusing on pole vault more fully.[2]
She won the Dutch U20 Championships in Utrecht in June 2024.[3] She was selected to represent the Netherlands at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, placing ninth overall in her international championships debut.[4][2]
She set the Dutch under-20 record at 4.32 metres competing in January 2025 in Zoetermeer.[5][2] She was runner-up to training partner Marijn Kieft at the Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships in Appeldoorn in February 2025, having made a successful clearance of 4.25 metres she skipped 4.30 and attempted to win the title with 4.35 metres but did not clear the bar.[6][7] Later in 2025, she improved the Dutch under-20 record to 4.50 metres.[8]
She was runner-up to Kieft at the Dutch Athletics Championships in Hengelo in August 2025, with a height of 4.41 metres with Kieft taking her under-20 national record with 4.51 metres.[9] Later that month, she won her first international championship title in the pole vault at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, finishing in first place overall with a successful clearance of 4.50 metres to equal her personal best with Marijn Kieft finishing second.[10][11]
Personal life
She joined the Econometrics program at Erasmus University Rotterdam.[2]
References
- ^ "Elise de Jong". World Athletics. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Rising Star: Elise de Jong". Hardloop Netwerk. 23 Jan 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "Asics Dutch U20 Championships". World Athletics. 16 June 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 27 August 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "Nationaal juniorenrecord voor Elise de Jong: 'Dat had ik vooraf nooit voor mogelijk gehouden'". ad.nl. 20 Jan 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "Marijn Kieft Dutch Champion at the National Indoor Championships for Seniors". Alphens.nl. 27 June 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "Dutch Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 28 Feb 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (3 August 2025). "Tampere 2025 - Women's field preview". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "Dutch Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ "European U20 Championahips Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ^ Mills, Steven (10 Aug 2025). "Pasquier breaks 35-year-old French U20 record to win high jump gold in Tampere". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 August 2025.