THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Two-time world champion sprinter Dafne Schippers is retiring from track and field at the age of 31. Schippers, a Dutchwoman who won back-to-back world titles in the 200 meters ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dutch coach Bart Bennema sighed and assessed his star pupil. "She has become a sprinter now," he said. What? Dafne Schippers, a sprinter only "now" in 2016, a year after she won ...

PAPENDAL, Netherlands (AP) Dafne Schippers is putting in long hours to shave fractions of seconds off her starts. The 200-meter world champion and 100-meter silver medalist, who two years ago switched ...

EUGENE -- Dafne Schippers was an elite heptathlete who won the bronze medal in the 2013 World Outdoor Championships. But she also is very fast, which helps explain why she decided to switch to ...

Born June 15, 1992 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She was known primarily as a heptathlete until 2015, when she decided to focus on sprinting exclusively. Schippers emerged as a sprinting sensation at the ...

(Reuters) – Dafne Schippers failed to live up to expectations at last year’s Olympic Games but the Dutch sprint queen says she is much more relaxed going into next month’s World Championship in London ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Dutch sprinter Dafne Schippers ran the fastest 200 metres this year on Friday to collect her second gold medal of the European championships. Schippers, who has switched from the ...

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