About Me

A successful entrepreneur in logistics (now co-owner of EWF bv, East West Forwarding), but a "late bloomer" in athletics.

She started running at the age of 38. Within a year, she completed her first marathon, and the club recognized her as a talent. In 2016, she became the Dutch champion in her age category for the first time at the CPC Run in The Hague, in the half marathon.

Meanwhile, she began training as a running coach with the Athletics Union and became a coach for one of the competitive groups at Haag Athletics. She is now a certified trainer (BLT-3). Naturally, she continued to develop herself, earning 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals at Dutch National Championships (marathon gold in 2021, 2022, silver in 2018 and 2023, half marathon gold in 2023, silver in 2022).

At the "Sixty of Texel," a 60-kilometer race around the island of Texel held every two years, she developed a love for longer distances. In the three times she participated, she consistently finished as second woman overall and first in her age category, even in the grueling 2024 edition with hail, rain, and wind force 8!

2024 she followed up with the 80-kilometer long "King of Spain" trail in Limburg (1st place women overall) and the 50-kilometer long Ardennes Ultra Trail (1st place women overall). She is now happily working towards her next challenges, with the ultimate challenge planned for 2026... the Marathon des Sables Legendary!

Olga is ambassador for Rotterdam Erasmus University Cancer research, especially research into symptomatic tumors in neurofibromatosis by dr. Walter Taal and his team.

Directe donaties: IBAN NL29 FVLB 2021 0100 15

t.n.v. V. Dudko / J. Maas