# Pauline Hondema

Pauline Hondema (pronounced; born 28 March 2000) is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the long jump. Her personal best is 6.76 metres set in 2023. She is also holding the Dutch indoor record of 6.70 metres set in 2025. Hondema won a silver medal in the First League of the 2021 European Athletics Team Championships. And she is a six-time national senior champion (three outdoor and three indoor titles).

## Career

She won the Dutch national title for the first time in Apeldoorn in June 2022.

### 2023

In February 2023, she won the Dutch national indoor title in Apeldoorn.
In June 2023, she represented the Netherlands sat the 2023 European Games in Silesia. In July 2023, she set a new personal best of 6.76 metres competing in Kortrijk, Belgium. That month, she retained her Dutch national title in Breda.
She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, missing the final by four centimetres.

### 2024

In February 2024, she won the Dutch indoor title.
In June 2024, she competed at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome. That month, she won her third consecutive Dutch national title.
She competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

### 2025

On 9 February 2025, she improved the 38-year-old Dutch indoor record with a jump of 6.65 m, further improved to 6.70 m less than a week later. Later that month she won the Dutch indoor national title. She was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn. In qualifying for the final she jumped a Dutch indoor record of 6.70 metres.

## Personal bests

Information from Hondema's World Athletics profile.
Hondema's personal best results :
| Event | Event | Result | Location | Date | Record | Notes |
| 60 metres | 60 metres | 8.08 s i | Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 9 February 2019 | |
| Long jump | outdoor | 6.76 m | Kortrijk, Belgium | 8 July 2023 | | (Wind: +1.3 m/s) |
| Long jump | indoor | 6.70 m i | Berlin, Germany | 14 February 2025 | NR |

## Competition results

Information from Hondema's World Athletics profile.

### International championships

Achievements at international championships representing the Netherlands :
| Year | Competition | Location | Position | Event | Result |
| 2021 | European Team Championships – First League | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 2nd | Long jump | 6.40 m |
| 2021 | European U23 Championships | Tallinn, Finland | 10th | Long jump | 6.21 m |
| 2023 | European Games | Chorzów, Poland | 5th | Long jump | 6.49 m |
| 2023 | European Team Championships – First Division | Chorzów, Poland | 5th | Long jump | 6.49 m |
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 15th (h) | Long jump | 6.57 m |
| 2024 | European Championships | Rome, Italy | 13th (h) | Long jump | 6.63 m |
| 2024 | Olympic Games | Paris, France | 14th (h) | Long jump | 6.55 m |

### Circuit wins

Hondema won the long jump at the following circuit meetings:
* World Athletics Continental Tour
** 2023 (3): Oordegem IFAM (6.53 m), Kortrijk Guldensporenmeeting (6.76 m PB), Banská Bystrica P-T-S meeting (6.42 m)
** 2024 (2): Kortrijk (6.69 m), Tampere Motonet GP (6.47 m)
* World Athletics Indoor Tour
** 2023 (1): Ghent IFAM Indoor (6.57 m i)
** 2024 (1): Amiens Meeting 3 Sauts (6.41 m i)
** 2025 (2): Amiens (6.58 m i), Düsseldorf ISTAF Indoor (6.65 m i NR)

### National championships

Achievements at national championships :
| Year | Competition | Location | Position | Event | Result |
| 2016 | Dutch U18 Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | – (h) | 60 metres | 8.34 s i |
| 2016 | Dutch U18 Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 4th | Long jump | 5.42 m i |
| 2016 | Dutch Championships | Amsterdam | 4th | Long jump | 5.80 m |
| 2016 | Dutch U18 Championships | Breda | 2nd | Long jump | 5.69 m |
| 2017 | Dutch U20/U18 Championships – U18 Events | Vught | 1st | Long jump | 5.78 m |
| 2017 | Dutch Championships | Utrecht | 7th | Long jump | 5.77 m |
| 2018 | Dutch U20 Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 2nd | Long jump | 5.79 m i |
| 2018 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 7th | Long jump | 5.63 m i |
| 2018 | Dutch U20 Championships | Emmeloord | 1st | Long jump | 5.98 m w |
| 2018 | Dutch Championships | Utrecht | 10th | Long jump | 5.65 m |
| 2019 | Dutch U20 Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 1st | Long jump | 5.94 m i |
| 2019 | Dutch U20 Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | – (sf) | 60 metres | 8.16 s i |
| 2019 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 3rd | Long jump | 6.00 m i |
| 2019 | Dutch U20 Championships | Alphen aan den Rijn | 1st | Long jump | 6.12 m |
| 2019 | Dutch Championships | The Hague | 7th | Long jump | 6.04 m |
| 2020 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 3rd | Long jump | 6.03 m i |
| 2020 | Dutch Championships | Utrecht | 2nd | Long jump | 6.09 m |
| 2021 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 2nd | Long jump | 6.41 m i |
| 2021 | Dutch Championships | Breda | 3rd | Long jump | 6.14 m |
| 2022 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 2nd | Long jump | 6.27 m i |
| 2022 | Dutch Championships | Apeldoorn | 1st | Long jump | 6.16 m |
| 2023 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 1st | Long jump | 6.48 m i |
| 2023 | Dutch Championships | Breda | 1st | Long jump | 6.37 m |
| 2024 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 1st | Long jump | 6.54 m i |
| 2024 | Dutch Championships | Hengelo | 1st | Long jump | 6.68 m w |
| 2025 | Dutch Indoor Championships | Apeldoorn | 1st | Long jump | 6.53 m i |