Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Van Koeckhoven a Ghent amma daga baya ya koma Zelzate. A 1991, ta fara yin iyo a cikin kulob. Nasararta ta farko ta kasa da kasa ita ce lambar tagulla a tseren mita 200 a gasar Olympics ta matasa ta Turai a Lisbon a shekarar 1997. A shekara mai zuwa ta sami karin lambar tagulla guda biyu, a tseren mita 100 da mita 200 a tseren tseren tseren tseren Turai. Daga 1999 ta yi gasa a gasa na yau da kullun kuma ta kai wasan karshe a gasar zakarun Turai ta 1999
, kuma a tseren mita 200 na 'yanci. Sakamakonta mafi kyau ya zo ne a 2000 lokacin da ta lashe lambobin Turai guda biyu kuma ta wuce zabin Olympics.