Joan van den Akker



Joan van den Akker ( Delft , January 161984 ) is a former Dutchsprinter . Together with her ​​teamgenotes Jacqueline Poelman , Pascal van Assendelft and Annemarie Kramer, she participated in the 4 x 100 m relay at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 . In the preliminary round, they were eliminated due to a wrong substitution.



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[ hide ]  *1 Biography  ==Biography [ edit] == At age six, Van den Akker began athletics at AV'40 in Delft . Besides athletics they did when other sports such as horse riding , tennis and street dance . At the age of twelve she began-around, because she felt like all track and field events. At the age of seventeen she moved to athletics KAV Holland to get better with her ​​trainer Wigert Thunnissen to work together.
 * Two Dutch championships
 * 3 Personal bests
 * 4 Performance Development

In 2002, Joan van den Akker was at the Junior World Championships sixth at the 100 m in 11.96 s and seventh in the 200m in 25.06. In 2003 she was at the European Championships for juniors seventh in the 100m and sixth in the 4 x 100 m relay. During the world championships in 2003 in Paris, she took along with Jacqueline Poelman, Pascal van Assendelft and Annemarie Kramer participated in the 4 x 100 m relay. The team nominated for the Olympic Games by the 20 participating countries, the twelfth time to run. Nevertheless, the final remained inaccessible, though it was Dutch foursome with 43.96 the fastest time of the season. In 2004, Joan van den Akker was Dutch champion in the 100 m

In 2006 there was a bone chip surgically removed from her foot.

In April 2007, Van den Akker put an end to her sports career, after she had suffered from a foot injury three years. Despite various treatments did not improve here. ==Dutch championships [ edit] == ==Personal records [ Edit] == ==Performance Development [ edit] ==
 * 100 m
 * 2001: 12,07
 * 2002: 11.72
 * 2003: 11,73
 * 2004: 11,35
 * 2005: -
 * 60 m
 * 2001: 7.94
 * 2002: 7.71
 * 2003: 7.57
 * 2004: 7.44
 * 2005: -
 * 2006: -