| Diane van Es | |
| Full Name: | Diane Gabriëlla van Es |
| Birth Date: | 22 March 1999 |
| Birth Place: | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Middle-, Long-distance running |
Diane van Es (in Dutch; Flemish diˈaːnə vɑn ɛs/; born 22 March 1999)[1] is a Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. She won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2024 European Championships and the bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships.
Van Es is the Dutch record holder for the 10 km road race. She won four national titles (5000 m, 10 km).
Diane Van Es competed internationally at youth level, winning the 3000 metres at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival held in Tbilisi,[2] and placing 12th in that event at the 2017 European Under-20 Championships in Grosseto two years later.
In 2019, she represented Netherlands in the 5000 metres final at the European U23 Championships held in Gävle and was part of the gold medal-winning women's U23 Dutch team at the European Cross Country Championships in Lisbon.[3]
Van Es established herself in the senior ranks with a 5000 m win at the 2020 Dutch Athletics Championships.[4]
On 29 May 2021, she set a 5000 m personal best of 15:07.52 during the Next Generation Athletics meeting in Nijmegen, which qualified her for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[5] [6]
She won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2024 European Championships in Rome on 11 June 2024, running a personal best time of 30:57.24.[7] [8]
All information from World Athletics profile.
| 2015 | European Youth Olympic Festival | Tbilisi, Georgia | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 3000 m | 9:58.49 | ||
| 2017 | European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 12th | 3000 m | 9:55.43 | |||
| 2018 | European Cross Country Championships | Tilburg, Netherlands | 29th | U20 race | 14:29 | |||
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | U20 team | 28 pts | |||||
| 2019 | European U23 Championships | Gävle, Sweden | 13th | 5000 m | 16:09.28 | |||
| European Cross Country Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 11th | U23 race | 21:53 | ||||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | U23 team | 17 pts | |||||
| 2021 | European Team Championships First League | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 3rd | 3000 m | 9:07.41 | |||
| European U23 Championships | Bergen, Norway | 3rd | 5000 m | 15:48.4- | ||||
| Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 33rd (h) | 5000 m | 15:47.01 | ||||
| European Cross Country Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 43rd | U23 race | 22:25 | ||||
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 13th | 5000 m | 15:26.44 | |||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 13th | 10,000 m | 32:05.85 | |||
| 2024 | European Championships | Rome, Italy | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 10,000 m | 30:57.24 |