Nikki Boon

Nikki Boon (born 1 August 2001) is a Dutch heptathlete and decathlete. She won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 2025 NCAA Division III Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships and NCAA Division III Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships for the Emory Eagles track and field team, and won the gold medal at the 2nd Women's Decathlon World Championships.

Career Netherlands Boon attended the (Center for Sports and Education) high school in the Netherlands and represented the AV Flevo Delta athletics club. She competed at the 2015 Dutch U18 Athletics Championships in the shot put and placed 7th in the indoor pentathlon at the 2016 Dutch U18 Indoor Combined Events Championships. She competed in her first senior nationals at the 2019 Dutch Athletics Championships, but did not finish in the heptathlon. She experienced a season-ending injury in her first year of NCAA Division I competition.

At the 2025 NCAA Division III Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships, Boon became Emory's first national indoor pentathlon champion and became the first NCAA Division III athlete to score over 4,000 points. Boon was also 5th in the indoor 4 × 400 metres relay. At the 2025 Division III Outdoor Championships, Boon was 10th in the long jump and won the heptathlon, setting another Division III record of 5,638 points in the process.

Boon finished runner-up in the discus throw and 3rd in the javelin throw to surpass Straus, beating her in the 1500 m to win the gold medal. Her winning mark of 7,451 points set a championship record, surpassing Allison Halverson's 7,236 points from the inaugural competition.

Personal life Boon is from Dronten in the Netherlands. She majored in psychology at Coastal Carolina University. She has a master's degree in biological and biomedical science from the Laney Graduate School at Emory.

Four of Boon's immediate family members are also combined track and field events competitors. Boon's father was a decathlete, her mother was a heptathlete, and she has two brothers that are also decathletes. Her brother Scott Boon is a decathlete for the Houston Baptist Huskies track and field team.