Alida van Daalen

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Daalen, not Daalen.

Alida van Daalen (Dutch: [aːˈlidaː vɑn ˈdaːlə(n)]; born 12 April 2002) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in shot put and discus.^[2]

Alida van Daalen

Van Daalen in 2022
Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(2002-04-12) 12 April 2002 (age 23) Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Shot Put, Discus
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Netherlands European U23 Championships 2023 Espoo Shot put 2023 Espoo Discus throw European U20 Championships 2019 Borås Discus throw 2021 Tallinn Shot put 2021 Tallinn Discus throw European U18 Championships 2018 Győr Discus throw 2018 Győr Shot put

Early life

Alida van Daalen was born on 12 April 2002.^[2] She is the daughter of Dutch Olympic athlete Jacqueline Goormachtigh.^[3]

Van Daalen was brought up in initially in Suriname, but lives with the pigment disease vitiligo, which causes her skin to show white spots and does not tolerate the sun well, and her family relocated to Rotterdam.^[4]

In 2022, she started at the University of Florida in the United States and began competing for the Florida Gators. She won the shot put at the SEC Indoor Championships and SEC Outdoor Championships and placed fourth at NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships and NCAA Outdoor Championships.^[5]

Career

Van Daalen competed at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[6] She then won bronze in the shot put and silver in the discus, at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr.^[7]

Competing at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, she won the silver medal in the shot put and the discus events.^[8]

Competing at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland, she won the gold medal in both the shot put and the discus events.^[9] She won the shot put with a European U23 leading distance of 18.32m.^[10] She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.^[11]

She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the shot put and discus.^[12][13]

She set a meeting record of 65.24 metres to win the discus at the 2025 SEC Championships in May 2025.^[14]

Statistics

Information based on her World Athletics profile unless noted otherwise.^[2]

Personal bests

Outdoor

• Shot put: 18.32 m (Espoo, 2023)
• Discus throw: 66.31 (Ramona, Oklahoma, 2024)^[15]

Indoor

• Shot put: 18.66 m i (Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2023)

International competitions

Representing the  Netherlands

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Result	Notes
2017	European Youth Summer Olympic Festival	Győr, Hungary	1st	Shot put (3 kg)	16.23 m
			2nd	Discus throw	48.82 m
2018	European U18 Championships	Győr, Hungary	3rd	Shot put (3kg)	17.08 m
			2nd	Discus throw	52.93 m
	Summer Youth Olympics	Buenos Aires, Argentina	4th	Discus throw	47.33 m 53.07 m
2019	European U20 Championships	Borås, Sweden	1st	Discus throw	55.92 m
2021	European Throwing Cup	Split, Croatia	17th[16]	Discus throw	54.99 m
	European U20 Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	2nd	Discus throw	55.63 m
			2nd	Shot put	16.56 m
2022	European Throwing Cup, U23 Events	Leiria, Portugal	5th	Shot put	15.80 m
			2nd	Discus throw	55.02 m
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	18th[17]	Discus throw	56.05 m
2023	European U23 Championships	Espoo, Finland	1st	Shot put	18.32 m
			1st	Discus throw	56.77 m
	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	19th (q)	Shot put	17.93 m
2024	Olympic Games	Paris, France	26th (q)	Shot put	16.53 m
			16th (q)	Discus throw	62.19 m