# Alida van Daalen

Alida van Daalen (Dutch:; born 12 April 2002) is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in shot put and discus.

## Early life

Alida van Daalen was born on 12 April 2002. She is the daughter of Dutch Olympic athlete Jacqueline Goormachtigh.
Van Daalen was brought up in initially in Suriname, but lives with the pigment disease vitiligo, which causes her skin to show white spots and does not tolerate the sun well, and her family relocated to Rotterdam.
In 2022, she started at the University of Florida in the United States and began competing for the Florida Gators. She won the shot put at the SEC Indoor Championships and SEC Outdoor Championships and placed fourth at NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships and NCAA Outdoor Championships.

## Career

Van Daalen competed at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She then won bronze in the shot put and silver in the discus, at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr.
Competing at the 2021 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, she won the silver medal in the shot put and the discus events.
Competing at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland, she won the gold medal in both the shot put and the discus events. She won the shot put with a European U23 leading distance of 18.32m. She was selected for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.
She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the shot put and discus.

## Statistics

Information based on her World Athletics profile unless noted otherwise.

### Personal bests
#### Outdoor

* Shot put: 18.32 m (Espoo, 2023)
* Discus throw: 66.31 (Ramona, Oklahoma, 2024)

#### Indoor

* Shot put: 18.66 m i (Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2023)

### International competitions

Representing the  Netherlands :
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result |
| 2017 | European Youth Summer Olympic Festival | Győr, Hungary | 1st | Shot put (3 kg) | 16.23 m |
| 2017 | European Youth Summer Olympic Festival | Győr, Hungary | 2nd | Discus throw | 48.82 m |
| 2018 | European U18 Championships | Győr, Hungary | 3rd | Shot put (3kg) | 17.08 m |
| 2018 | European U18 Championships | Győr, Hungary | 2nd | Discus throw | 52.93 m |
| 2018 | Summer Youth Olympics | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 4th | Discus throw | 47.33 m 53.07 m |
| 2019 | European U20 Championships | Borås, Sweden | 1st | Discus throw | 55.92 m |
| 2021 | European Throwing Cup | Split, Croatia | 17th | Discus throw | 54.99 m |
| 2021 | European U20 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 2nd | Discus throw | 55.63 m |
| 2021 | European U20 Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 2nd | Shot put | 16.56 m |
| 2022 | European Throwing Cup, U23 Events | Leiria, Portugal | 5th | Shot put | 15.80 m |
| 2022 | European Throwing Cup, U23 Events | Leiria, Portugal | 2nd | Discus throw | 55.02 m |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 18th | Discus throw | 56.05 m |
| 2023 | European U23 Championships | Espoo, Finland | 1st | Shot put | 18.32 m |
| 2023 | European U23 Championships | Espoo, Finland | 1st | Discus throw | 56.77 m |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 19th (q) | Shot put | 17.93 m |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 26th (q) | Shot put | 16.53 m |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 16th (q) | Discus throw | 62.19 m |