Shaquille Emanuelson

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Shaquille Emanuelson
Personal information
Born (2000-01-08) 8 January 2000 (age 25)
Paramaribo, Suriname
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Discus
Achievements and titles
Personal bestsDiscus 69.65 m (Rsmona, 2025) NR

Shaquille Emanuelson (born 8 January 2000) is a Dutch discus thrower. He won the Dutch Athletics Championships in 2024 and set a new Dutch national record for the event in April 2025. [1]

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Early and personal life

He was born in Paramaribo, Suriname. In his childhood he lived in Yemen and Poland due to his parents work for the Dutch embassy. After moving to the Netherlands, his family settled in Delft, where he and his brother Isiah joined the athlefics club AV '40. He later lived in Arnhem. [2]

Career

He is a member of Haag Atletiek in The Hague, Netherlands. [3] He was Dutch junior champion in the discus throw in 2019, and also placed third at the senior Dutch Athletics Championships that year, with a throw of 55.23 meters. [4]

He was selected to represent the Netherlands at the 2024 European Throwing Cup in Portugal, throwing 54.42 metres. [5] [6] He qualified for the final at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, placing eleventh overall, with his best throw of 63.36 metres in qualification and a throw of 61.96 metres in the final of his debut performance at the Championships. [7] [8] [9] He won the 2024 Dutch Athletics Championships in Hengelo in June 2024. [10]

He set a new Dutch national record for discus throw of 69.65 metres in April 2025 whilst competing in Ramona, Oklahoma. [11] The throw broke the previous record that has stood since 1991, and had been set by Erik de Bruin. [2] He was runner-up to Ruben Rolvink at the 2025 Dutch Athletics Championships in Hengelo in August 2025. [12] He was selected for the Dutch team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Shaquille Emanuelson". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 Piest, Tijn (April 24, 2025). "This is Shaquille Emanuelson, Dutch discus record holder: 'It was a calculated risk'". Hardloopnetwerk. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Haag Atletiek's competitive teams lead the way after the first A-competition". Atletiek.nl. April 8, 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "ASICS NK Athletics: what happened on day 2?". Atletiek.nl. 27 July 2019. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  5. ↑ "European Throwing Cup Leiria". Atletiek.nl. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "European Throwing Cup". World Athletics. 9 March 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "Emanuelson reaches discus throw final on European Championship debut". Nos.nl. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Maureen Koster takes fourth place in the 5000 meters, and the 4x400 mixed relay team takes bronze". Runners.nl. June 7, 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "Dutch Championships". World Athletics. 28 June 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (8 May 2025). "Olympic and European medallists headline first streamed meeting of the summer in Domažlice". European Athletics. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ "Dutch Championships". World Athletics. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ "53 TeamNL atleten naar WK atletiek in Tokio". Atletiek.nl. 1 September 2025. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
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