| N'ketia Seedo | |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Sport: | Track and field |
| Event: | 60 m, 100 m, 200 m |
| Birth Date: | 7 June 2003 |
| Birth Place: | Utrecht, Netherlands |
N'ketia Seedo (in Dutch; Flemish nəˈkeːtiaː 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 is born on 7 June 2003 in Utrecht, Netherlands. She is of Surinamese descent.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
Seedo won the Dutch 60 m indoor title for a third time in 2022.[2]
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,[5] before going fractionally better running 11.15 s in the final.[6]
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.[7]
Selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she qualified for the semi-final of the 100 metres.[8]
She reached the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.[9]
She ran as part of the Dutch 4x100m relay team which qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[10]
Information based on her World Athletics profile.[11]
| 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 | 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 | Düsseldorf, Germany | 4 February 2024 |