A Dutch distance runner suffered a horrifying accident on the ultimate day of the 2025 European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
On the fifth lap of the ladies’s 3,000m, Maureen Koster was forward of Nice Britain’s Innes FitzGerald and trailing Hannah Nuttall when the incident occurred. The replay confirmed Koster’s ft getting entangled, inflicting her to fall and hit her head instantly on the monitor.
In keeping with experiences, Koster misplaced consciousness upon impression and needed to be swiftly faraway from the monitor by on-site medics earlier than the runners circled again for one more lap almost 30 seconds later.
Koster was stretchered out of the venue whereas nonetheless unconscious and was taken to a close-by hospital. The 32-year-old athlete took to social media on Monday morning to guarantee her followers that she was okay. “It nonetheless feels unreal what occurred final evening,” Koster wrote. “Fortunately, apart from a gentle concussion, some bruises, and a damaged coronary heart, I’m effective. I actually hope to be again on my ft quickly.”
Koster additionally shared that she obtained an outpouring of type messages from followers.
Koster had the second-fastest qualifying time from the heats heading into the ladies’s 3,000m remaining, solely behind Eire’s Sarah Healy, who went on to win the gold within the race that Koster couldn’t end.