Elly van Hulst, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Elly van Hulst

Dutch middle distance runner

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1959

Place of Birth: Culemborg, Gelderland, Netherlands

Profession: long-distance runner, athletics competitor

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Elly van Hulst

  • Elisa ("Elly") Maria van Hulst (born 9 June 1959) is a former middle distance runner from the Netherlands.
  • She competed in the 800 m and 1500 m events at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1500 m and 3000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics; her best achievement was ninth place in the 3000 m in 1988.
  • During her career she set one world record, on 4 March 1989 at the 1989 European Indoor Championships in Athletics in the 3000 m event (8:33.82), as well as three national records: in the mile (1986, 4:22.40), 1500 m (1987, 4:03.63) and 3000 m (1988, 8:33.97).
  • In 1989 she was named Dutch Sportswoman of the Year.She started training in ballet, but had a limited success because of her height.
  • At age 11 she started training in athletics, together with her elder brother.
  • When she was in high school, she moved from Maastricht to Leeuwarden.
  • There she started a long-term training program with her coach Theo Kersten.
  • Although her trainer was 13 years older, they got involved into a romantic relationship and later got married. Elly van Hulst's career would last for almost twenty years and bring her 65 national, three European and two world titles.
  • On the 3000 m indoor, she held the world record for twelve years.
  • She participated in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
  • At the end of the 1980s Van Hulst showed that she was among the best athletes in the world.
  • In 1988 she defeated Mary Decker, favorite for the 3000 m victory in Zurich. In 1990, Van Hulst began having strange physical complaints and was tired frequently.
  • Doctors were unable to find anything that caused her symptoms, and so she kept on running.
  • Eventually Van Hulst could not participate in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, because she was in the hospital for medical tests.
  • It was discovered that she had a serious viral infection, and had had it for two years. As a result of the viral infection, she got exercise-induced asthma.
  • However, because her asthma was easily controlled, her career was apparently unaffected.
  • Just before the European Championships in 1994 in Paris, she heard that one of the ingredients of her medication was on the list of banned substances.
  • A permitted alternative was not effective.
  • As a result, she ended up in ninth place in Paris.
  • Two years later, the ingredient in question was found to be harmless and was removed from the list of banned substances, but this change came too late for Van Hulst: she was not able to participate in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. During her successful years, Van Hulst trained in the Algarve in Portugal.
  • She loved this place and later, when her career had ended, moved there.
  • Nowadays she runs a real estate business, Elly van Hulst Real Estate Lda, together with her husband.

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