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Schippers
[ ship-erz ]
noun
- Thomas, 1930–77, U.S. orchestra conductor.
Example Sentences
In 2011, the museum asked an unsuspecting tourist who stepped on Wim T. Schippers' peanut butter floor artwork, called Pindakaasvloer, to pay for repairs to the work.
While it has produced a broadly similar pattern of medal winners to male sprinting, the Netherlands' five-time Olympic and world sprint medallist Dafne Schippers is among a number of non-black athletes to make global podiums this century.
Schippers, a Dutchwoman who won back-to-back world titles in the 200 meters, transformed herself from a heptathlete who won a bronze medal in the event at the 2013 world championships in Moscow to a powerful sprinter.
“The race stops here,” Schippers said in a post on Instagram.
In between her two world titles, Schippers won an Olympic silver medal after finishing second behind Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson in the 200-meter race at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
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