# Olga Commandeur

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{{Short description|Dutch television presenter and track and field athlete}}
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'''Olga Alida Divera Commandeur''' (born 30 October 1958) is a Dutch [television presenter](/source/television_presenter) and [track and field](/source/track_and_field) athlete. She competed in the [400 metres hurdles](/source/400_metres_hurdles) at the [1984 Summer Olympics](/source/1984_Summer_Olympics), but failed to reach the final.<ref name=r1/> She won five national titles in this event in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983 and 1984. She also won gold medals in the [800 metres](/source/800_metres) at the [1975 European Athletics Junior Championships](/source/1975_European_Athletics_Junior_Championships) and 1977 national championships.

==Biography==
thumb|upright|left|Commandeur in 1981

Commandeur started competing in athletics in 1973 and soon became a leading junior Dutch runner and [javelin throw](/source/javelin_throw)er.<ref name=r1a/><ref name=r2/> Next year she won national youth titles in the 800 m (indoor) and 300 m. In 1975 she finished second in the [400 metres](/source/400_metres) senior Dutch championships. She later won the 800 m at the [1975 European Athletics Junior Championships](/source/1975_European_Athletics_Junior_Championships) in a time of 2:05.8. She shaved 4.2 s from it two weeks later in Aalst, setting a [Dutch seniors record](/source/Dutch_records_in_athletics) and a [world youth record](/source/List_of_world_youth_bests_in_athletics).

Commandeur missed the 1976 Olympics due to injuries that kept returning in 1977–1978.<ref name=r3/><ref name=r4/> In early 1979 she focused on [pentathlon](/source/women's_pentathlon) (and later [heptathlon](/source/heptathlon)) aiming for the [1980 Olympics](/source/1980_Summer_Olympics). Next year she finished second in the national championships and did not qualify for the Games. Meanwhile, the 400 m hurdles, in which she was twice national champion, was not yet included to the [Olympic program](/source/Athletics_at_the_Summer_Olympics). She competed in this event at the [1980 World Championships in Athletics](/source/1980_World_Championships_in_Athletics) and later at the 1984 Olympics, but failed to reach the finals.<ref name=r1/>

A few years after the Games she retired from competitions due to injuries and started her career as TV and radio personality. Between 1984 and 1991 she was involved with the morning exercise radio program "NOS Sport". In 1987 she married her long-time boyfriend [Jaap Dekker](/source/%3Anl%3AJaap_Dekker) and moved to [Amstelveen](/source/Amstelveen).<ref name=r7/> The couple has two children. From 2000 to 2007, together with [Karl Noten](/source/%3Anl%3AKarl_Noten) she presented the morning gymnastics TV program [Nederland in Beweging!](/source/%3Anl%3ANederland_in_Beweging!). In parallel, she run her fitness company Olga Commandeur PROmotions. In 2020 she made a guest appearance in the second episode of the first season of ''[Drag Race Holland](/source/Drag_Race_Holland)''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olgacommandeur.nl/ |title=Home |website=olgacommandeur.nl}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=r1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418044720/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/olga-commandeur-1.html Olga Commandeur]. sports-reference.com</ref>

<ref name=r1a>"De beste jeugdprestaties 1973", De Atletiekwereld nr. 22: KNAU</ref>

<ref name=r2>Piet Wijker (1973) "Uit In de schijnwerper: Olga Commandeur", De Atletiekwereld nr. 20: KNAU</ref>

<ref name=r3>Nic Lemmens (1976) "Goede prestaties bij opening Regupolbaan in Roosendaal", De Atletiekwereld nr. 17: KNAU</ref>

<ref name=r4>Dick Loman (1977) "Elly van Hulst en Arie Ruiter razendsnel. Fraaie comeback van Olga Commandeur", De Atletiekwereld nr. 11: KNAU</ref>

<ref name=r7>''Privé'', week 40, 10 October 2012</ref>

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==External links==
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*[https://www.olgacommandeur.nl/ Olga Commandeur], official website
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Category:1958 births
Category:20th-century Dutch sportswomen
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes from North Holland
Category:Dutch women hurdlers
Category:Dutch women middle-distance runners
Category:Dutch women sprinters
Category:Dutch heptathletes
Category:Living people
Category:Olympic athletes for the Netherlands
Category:People from Velsen

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