Alida van Daalen

Alida van Daalen (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 Gyor.

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.

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 (Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2023)