In 2016, everything was focused on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). At the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in her home country, Broersen, who moved from ninth on the first day to fourth after winning the long jump and coming third in the javelin, but was unable to run the final 800 metres event due to an illness. Her teammate Anouk Vetter won the heptathlon event with a new national record of 6626 points. At the 2016 Summer Olympics she finished in a disappointing 13th place. Nevertheless, she made up the 2016 season by winning the heptathlon at the Décastar in Talence (France).