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N'Ketia Seedo
N'ketia Seedo (Dutch: [nəˈkeːtijaː ˈseːdoː]; born 7 June 2003) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in sprint races. She won the Dutch national indoor championships over 60 metres in 2020, 2022 and 2023. Early lifeN'ketia[note 1] Seedo is born on 7 June 2003 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She is of Surinamese descent.[3] CareerYouthSeedo was racing and beating senior athletes from an early age. She was 15 years old when she finished third at the Dutch indoor national championships 60 m race, behind Schippers and Jamile Samuel in 2019.[4] She was runner-up in the 100 metres, running 11.40 seconds, at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden, losing in a photo finish to Vittoria Fontana who was also clocked at 11.40 s. She also claimed a silver at that championships in the 4 × 100 m relay.[5] Seedo won the Dutch 60 m indoor title for a second time in 7.24 seconds in 2020, the second-fastest time by a junior of all time and the European U18 best, a record that would last until 2025 when it was broken by Kelly Doualla.[6][7] JuniorSeedo won the Dutch 60 m indoor title for a third time in 2022.[4] Seedo won bronze at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in the 100 m at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium, in Cali in August 2022, running 11.16 s, a new national under-20 record, in the heats,[8] before going fractionally better running 11.15 s in the final.[9] She was a member of the Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team that finished fifth at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in August 2022 in Munich.[10] SeniorSelected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she qualified for the semi-final of the 100 metres.[11] She reached the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[12] She ran as part of the Dutch 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[13] Personal bestsInformation based on her World Athletics profile.[14] Individual events
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