Remona Fransen, Dutch pentathlete
Remona Fransen (born November 11, 1985) is a Dutch athlete, specialising in multi-eventing disciplines.
At the 2011 European Indoor Championships in Athletics in Paris, Fransen won her first major international medal in the pentathlon with a points total of 4,665. En route to her pentathlon bronze, she broke the Dutch indoor record in the high jump with a height of 1.92 m.
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