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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]
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]
She joined the Econometrics program at Erasmus University Rotterdam. [2]
