{{Short description|Dutch athletics competitor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Mia Gommers |image=Mia Gommers 1969.jpg |caption=Mia Gommers in 1969 |birth_date={{birth date and age|df=y|1939|09|26}} |birth_place=Stein, Limburg, Netherlands | height = {{convert|1.66|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|53|kg|lb|abbr=on}} |sport=Athletics |club=Unitas, Sittard | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Women's athletics}} {{MedalCountry | {{NED}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1968 Mexico City|800 m}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalSilver| 1969 Athens|1500 m}} }} '''Maria ("Mia") Francisca Philomena Hoogakker-Gommers''' (born 26 September 1939) is a Dutch retired athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres and competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
== Biography == Gommers was the second female world record-holder over 1500 metres in October 1967 at Sittard, Netherlands, breaking the record of Anne Smith, who set the record in June of that year, by almost two seconds.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20121209132317/http://athletix.org/?p=879 World record progression at athletix.org]}}</ref>
Gommers competed for the Netherlands at the 1968 Olympics Games held in Mexico City, Mexico. in the 800 metres, where she won the bronze medal.<ref name=r1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174150/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/mia-gommers-1.html Mia Gommers]. sports-reference.com</ref>
On 14 June 1969 she also broke Smith's world record on the mile in an event in Leicester, England. One month later she won the British WAAA Championships title in the 1500 metres event at the 1969 WAAA Championships.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002137/19690720/327/0035 |title=Hyman Back In Glory |work=Sunday Mirror |date=20 July 1969 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=4 March 2025 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=4 March 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=4 March 2025 }}</ref>
At the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens on 20 September 1969, she ran below Paola Pigni's new 1500 m record, but was beaten to the finish by Jaroslava Jehlickova.
In 1969 she was chosen the Dutch female sportsperson of the year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/06/25/door-het-hardlopen-maakte-ik-dingen-mee-die-ik-anders-nooit-beleefd-zou-hebben-a4856916 |title=Maria Gommers won in 1968 brons op de eerste olympische 800 meter |date=2024-06-25 |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=NRC Handelsblad |last=Tuenter |first=Geertje |language=nl |trans-title=Maria Gommers won the bronze medal in 1968 at the first Olympic 800 metres |quote=Maria Gommers werd in 1969 sportvrouw van het jaar in Nederland. |trans-quote=Maria Gommers was elected Dutch sports woman of the year in 1969.}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-ach|rec}} {{s-bef | rows = 2 | before = Anne Smith}} {{s-ttl | title = Women's 1500 m world record holder|years=24 October 1967 – 2 July 1969}} {{s-aft | after = Paola Pigni}} {{s-ttl | title = Women's mile world record holder|years = 14 June 1969 – 20 August 1971}} {{s-aft | after = Ellen Tittel}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{S-bef|before=Corrie Bakker}} {{S-ttl|title=KNAU Cup|years=1967, 1968}} {{S-aft|after=Wilma van den Berg}} {{succession box|title=Dutch Sportswoman of the Year|before=Ada Kok |after=Atje Keulen-Deelstra|years=1969}} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gommers, Mia}} Category:1939 births Category:Living people Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Category:Dutch women middle-distance runners Category:European Athletics Championships medalists Category:World record setters in the sport of athletics Category:Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Category:People from Stein, Limburg Category:Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics Category:Athletes from Limburg (Netherlands) Category:20th-century Dutch sportswomen
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