Jolanda Keizer

Jolanda Keizer ( born April 5, 1985 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch athlete. Her biggest success was the silver medal in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in 2009.

2004 won Jolanda Keizer at the Dutch Junior Championship in the heptathlon after they had previously occupied the second place in the year. In 2005, she first appeared on at the state championship in the senior category, finishing behind Yvonne Wisse second place. At the European Championships of sub -23 -year-olds in Erfurt Jolanda Keizer reached 5760 points, a new personal best and placed itself on the sixth.

After a weaker 2006, Jolanda Keizer in 2007 improved significantly. In May she won in Sittard their first Dutch league title and surpassed it with 6092 points for the first time the 6000 -point mark. In the U23 European Championships in Debrecen she rose to 6219 points and finished second behind the Lithuanian Viktorija Zemaityte that with the same score the only reason triumphed because it was in four of the seven disciplines before Jolanda Keizer. After these two increases in their best performance Keizer also appeared at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka and came there with 6102 points Rank 14

2008 began for Jolanda Keizer with two setbacks. In the Dutch championship, she gave up after the first day and at her first start at Mösle Mehrkampf meeting in Götzis she succeeded in the long jump is not a valid test. Only at the European Cup the all-rounder in Hengelo, she completed with 6105 points and third place in the individual competition a completed competition in the team standings occupied the Dutch women, thanks to the power of Jolanda Keizer fourth place. With her ​​performance in Hengelo they also secured the participation in the Olympic Games in Beijing. There she improved in four of the seven disciplines their personal best and increased to a total of 6370 points, with which they filed on the ninth.

In the indoor season in 2009 Jolanda Keizer won the Dutch title in the indoor long jump and pentathlon. At the European Indoor Championships 2009 in Turin they rose to 4644 points, and thus took second place behind Russia's Anna Bogdanova.

Jolanda Keizer has a competition weight of 67 kg at a height of 1.83 m. They will start for the AAC Amsterdam.