Letitia Vriesde

Letitia Vriesde
Personal information
Birth nameLetitia Alma Vriesde
Born (1964-10-05) 5 October 1964 (age 60)
Coronie, Suriname
Height1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event800 m – 3000 m
ClubAtletiekvereniging Rotterdam
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing  Suriname
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1995 Gothenburg 800 m
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Edmonton 800 m
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Barcelona 800 m
Grand Prix Final
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Fukuoka City 800 m
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1999 Winnipeg 800 m
Silver medal – second place 1991 Havana 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Mar del Plata 800 m
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2001 Manaus 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2001 Manaus 800 m
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal – first place 1990 Mexico City 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 1993 Ponce 800 m
Gold medal – first place 1993 Ponce 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 1998 Maracaibo 800 m
Gold medal – first place 2002 San Salvador 800 m
Silver medal – second place 1990 Mexico City 800 m
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 1990 Lima 800 m
Gold medal – first place 1990 Lima 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 1994 Valencia 800 m
Silver medal – second place 1994 Valencia 1500 m
Representing Americas
World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Johannesburg 800 m

Letitia Alma Vriesde (born 5 October 1964) is a former track and field athlete from Suriname, who specialised in the 800 metres but was also successful over 1500 metres. She is the first (and to date, only) sportsperson from Suriname to compete at five Olympic Games.[1] She won a silver medal at the 1995 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships.[2] Vriesde holds the South American records for the 800 metres, 1000 metres and 1500 metres (indoors and outdoors) and also for the 3000 metres (indoors).

Career

Vriesde started running in Suriname, coached by Luiz de Oliveira. She left Suriname after failing to be selected for the 1984 Olympics to train in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, Vriesde competed for Atletiekvereniging Rotterdam.[3]

She competed in the 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and broke into the highest echelons of the sport in 1991, when she reached the finals of both the 800 and 1500 metres at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, finishing in fifth and ninth places respectively. At the 1992 Summer Olympics Vriesde set a record of sorts by recording the fastest ever non-qualifying time (1:58.28) in an 800 metres semi-final.

Vriesde won a bronze medal in the 800 metres at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships, before going on to win a silver medal at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics behind Cuba's Ana Quirot. At both competitions, she became the first South American female athlete to win a medal.

A year later, she missed the finals at the 1996 Summer Olympics, running a nearly identical time to her 1992 Olympic performance (1:58.29), again placing fifth in her semifinal. Vriesde won a bronze medal in the 800 metres at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics behind Mozambique's Maria Mutola and Austria's Stephanie Graf. Throughout her career, Vriesde also won many medals at the Pan American Games, Central American and Caribbean Games and South American Games.

Vriesde was disqualified and stripped of her gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games after testing positive for excessive caffeine levels. She was said to have the equivalent of five gallons of coffee in her system. She was not banned however and went on to compete at that year's World Championships. Drinking too much coffee or taking a common cold tablet would no longer get athletes disqualified after a new global list of banned substances was drawn up by the World Anti-Doping Agency and applied from 1 January 2004.

Vriesde retired soon after competing at her seventh World Championships in 2005.[4] In Paramaribo a street formerly known as Cultuurtuinlaan was changed into Letitia Vriesdelaan. The Surinamese Government also gave her a piece of land in appreciation of her achievements.

Personal life

Vriesde married Bas van Veen on 9 September 2005 in Middelburg, Holland. Her daughter Joi Vienna was born on 19 March 2007.

Personal bests

  • 400 m 52.01 (1997)
  • 800 m 1:56.68 (1995)
  • 1000 m 2:32.25 (1991)
  • 1500 m 4:05.67 (1991)
  • Mile 4:30.45 (1992)
  • 3000 m 9:15.64 (1991)

As of 2017, Vriesde's 800m best of 1:56.68 ranks her 58th on the World all-time list.[5][6]

Vriesde’s top 10 800 m performances

  • 1:56.68 AR 2 WCh Gothenburg 13.08.95
  • 1:57.07 3rA WK Zürich 16.08.95
  • 1:57.09 3 Her Monte Carlo 10.08.96
  • 1:57.16 4= GPF Monte Carlo 09.09.95
  • 1:57.35 3 WCh Edmonton 12.08.01
  • 1:57.86 4 Her Monte Carlo 16.08.97
  • 1:57.96 AR 5 APM Hengelo 28.06.92
  • 1:57.98 2 Nikaïa Nice 16.07.97
  • 1:58.11 2 ISTAF Berlin 01.09.95
  • 1:58.12 4 WCh Athens 09.08.97[7]

World rankings

Women's 800 m[8]

  • 1990 #26
  • 1991 #9
  • 1992 #9
  • 1993 #38
  • 1994 #72
  • 1995 #4
  • 1996 #8
  • 1997 #4
  • 1998 #7
  • 1999 #9
  • 2000 #14
  • 2001 #4
  • 2002 #31
  • 2003 #44
  • 2004 #63

Women's 1500

  • 1990 #83
  • 1991 #17

Women's 400 m

  • 1997 #54

Olympic Games glossary

800 metres event history

  • 1988 Seoul round one heat 4 4th 2:01.83
  • 1988 Seoul semi-finals heat 2 8th 2:02.34
  • 1992 Barcelona round one heat 3 2nd 1:59.93
  • 1992 Barcelona semi-finals heat 1 5th 1:58.28
  • 1996 Atlanta round one heat 1 2nd 1:59.71
  • 1996 Atlanta semi-finals heat 2 5th 1:58.29
  • 2000 Sydney round one heat 2 4th 2:02.09
  • 2004 Athens round one heat 3 4th 2:01.70
  • 2004 Athens semi-finals heat 3 8th 2:06.95

1500 metres event history

  • 1988 Seoul round one heat 2 12th 4:19.58
  • 1992 Barcelona round one heat 2 5th 4:10.63
  • 1992 Barcelona semi-finals heat 1 8th 4:09.64

Competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Suriname
1988 Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea 14th (sf) 800 m 2:02.34
22nd (sf) 1500 m 4:19.58
1990 Central American and Caribbean Games Mexico City, Mexico 2nd 800 m 2:04.87 A
1st 1500 m 4:26.28 A
South American Games Lima, Peru 1st 800 m 2:06.2
1st 1500 m 4:23.0
1991 Pan American Games Havana, Cuba 4th 800 m 2:01.46
2nd 1500 m 4:16.75
World Championships Tokyo, Japan 5th 800 m 1:58.25
9th 1500 m 4:05.67
1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 5th (sf) 800 m 1:58.28
8th (sf) 1500 m 4:09.64
1993 Central American and Caribbean Games Ponce, Puerto Rico 1st 800 m 2:04.28
1st 1500 m 4:18.45
1994 South American Games Valencia, Venezuela 2nd 800 m 2:06.2
2nd 1500 m 4:23.0
1995 World Indoor Championships Barcelona, Spain 3rd 800 m 2:00.36
Pan American Games Mar del Plata, Argentina 3rd 800 m 2:02.25
4th 1500 m 4:23.80
World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 2nd 800 m 1:56.68
1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, United States 7th (sf) 800 m 1:58.29
1997 World Indoor Championships Paris, France 4th 800 m 1:59.84
World Championships Athens, Greece 4th 800 m 1:58.12
1998 Central American and Caribbean Games Maracaibo, Venezuela 1st 800 m 2:00.24
World Cup Johannesburg, South Africa 3rd 800 m 2:00.561
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 11th (sf) 800 m 2:03.50
Pan American Games Winnipeg, Canada 1st 800 m 1:59.95
World Championships Seville, Spain 7th (sf) 800 m 2:00.33
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 18th (h) 800 m 2:02.09
2001 South American Championships Manaus, Brazil 2nd 800 m 2:00.93
1st 1500 m 4:19.97
World Championships Edmonton, Canada 3rd 800 m 1:57.35
2002 Central American and Caribbean Games San Salvador, El Salvador 1st 800 m 2:04.50
2003 Pan American Games Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – 800 m DQ
World Championships Paris, France 11th (sf) 800 m 2:00.88
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 24th (sf) 800 m 2:06.95
2005 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 19th (sf) 800 m 2:02.07
Results with (h) or (sf) indicates overall position in heats or semifinals respectively.

1Representing the Americas

See also

References

  1. ^ "SR/Olympic Sports: Letitia Vriesde". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Olympedia – Letitia Vriesde". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
  3. ^ "Historie AVR (Atletiekvereniging Rotterdam) - Rotterdam Atletiek". Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Vriesde to contest Steeplechase, after 7 World Championships, and 5 Olympics on the flat | NEWS | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2024-06-05.
  5. ^ "800m women". IAAF toplists. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  6. ^ "800m women". All-time Athletics. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Letitia Vriesde". Suriname Athletics. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  8. ^ "Rankings 800m women" (PDF). Track and Field news. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
Awards
Preceded by Rotterdam Sportswoman of the Year
1991
1995 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Succeeded by
Preceded by KNAU Cup
1991
2001 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Succeeded by
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Suriname
Sydney 2000
Athens 2004 		Succeeded by

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