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.

N'ketia Seedo

Seedo in 2022
Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(2003-06-07) 7 June 2003 (age 22) Utrecht, Netherlands
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	60 m, 100 m, 200 m
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Netherlands European Games 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 4×100 m relay 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 100 m European U23 Championships 2023 Espoo 100 m World U20 Championships 2022 Cali 100 m European U20 Championships 2019 Borås 100 m 2019 Borås 4×100 m relay

Early life

N'ketia^{[note 1]} Seedo is born on 7 June 2003 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She is of Surinamese descent.^[3]

Career

Youth

Seedo 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]

Junior

Seedo 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]

Senior

Selected 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 4 × 100 m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.^[13]

Personal bests

Information based on her World Athletics profile.^[14]

Individual events

Personal best times for individual events

Type	Event	Time (s)	Venue	Date	Notes
Outdoor	100 metres	11.11	Budapest, Hungary	20 August 2023	(Wind: -0.4 m/s)
	150 metres	16.73 w	Lisse, Netherlands	13 May 2023	Wind-assisted: +2.6 m/s
	200 metres	23.44	Oordegem, Belgium	27 May 2023	(Wind: +0.2 m/s)
Indoor	60 metres	7.15 i	Düsseldorf, Germany	4 February 2024

Team events

Personal best times for team events

Type	Event	Time (s)	Venue	Date	Notes
Outdoor	4 × 100 metres relay	42.38	London, United Kingdom	23 July 2023	Teamed with Marije van Hunenstijn, Jamile Samuel, and Tasa Jiya.[15]

Notes

1. Both Seedo and her sports management capitalize her first name as N'ketia.^[1][2]