Early career Visser's first sports were
gymnastics and
football; she took up athletics at age 13. She represented the Netherlands at the
2011 European Youth Olympic Festival in
Trabzon, winning gold medal in both the 100 m hurdles and
4 × 100 metres relay. Visser competed as a heptathlete at the
2012 World Junior Championships in
Barcelona, placing eleventh with 5447 points.
2014 in
Götzis (AT). During the 2014 indoor season Visser set Dutch indoor junior records in both the
60 m hurdles and the
pentathlon; , her pentathlon score of 4268 points ranked her ninth on the world all-time junior list. Outdoors, Visser competed in the
Götzis Hypo-Meeting for the first time, scoring a personal best 6110 points and placing 14th. At the
World Junior Championships in
Eugene, Oregon, she took part in both the
heptathlon and the
100 m hurdles, winning bronze medals in both events. In the hurdles she broke 13 seconds for the first time, her time of 12.99 s (+1.9) setting a new Dutch junior and under-23 record. Visser qualified for her first senior
European Championships that summer, representing the Netherlands in the 100 m hurdles; she ran 13.12 s (-2.0) in the heats and was narrowly eliminated from the semi-finals.
2015 In 2015, Visser became Dutch senior champion for the first time, winning the 60 m hurdles in 8.12 s at the national indoor championships in
Apeldoorn; she was selected for the
European Indoor Championships in
Prague, despite not quite meeting the national federation's qualification standard. Outdoors, Visser improved her national under-23 hurdles record to 12.97 s (+1.4) at the
FBK Games in
Hengelo on 24 May; the following week, she placed fifth in the heptathlon at the Hypo-Meeting with a personal best 6467 points. At the 2015 European U23 Championships Visser won a bronze in the 100 m hurdles. She went on to compete at the
2015 World Championships in Athletics in
Beijing, China, finishing eighth in the heptathlon. She was also the start runner of the Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team with
Dafne Schippers,
Naomi Sedney and
Jamile Samuel that finished fifth in 42.32 s in the final, but was disqualified for a changeover infringement. In the heats the team had run 42.32 s, a new national record. At the end of the summer season she finished third at the
Décastar heptathlon in
Talence, France.
2016 At the
2016 European Athletics Championships 100 m hurdles in
Amsterdam, Visser was eliminated in the semifinals. At the
2016 Summer Olympics heptathlon in
Rio de Janeiro, she finished at a disappointing 19th place.
2017 At the
2017 European U23 Championships, she won a gold in the 100 m hurdles. "It was going well until the eighth hurdle and then it became kind of messy. But I am happy to finish first." said Visser. She took a second place in the heptathlon at the
Mehrkampf-Meeting in
Ratingen (Germany), behind
Carolin Schäfer. In August, Visser finished seventh in the event with 6370 points at the
World Championships in London. The same month, she won a gold in the 100 m hurdles at the
Summer Universiade for university athletes.
2018: Heptathlon or hurdles in Berlin. The 2018 season started with a bronze at the
World Indoor Championship 60 m hurdles. She had clocked 7.83 s to win her semi-final, obliterating
Marjan Olyslager’s Dutch record of 7.89 s which had stood since 1989. In consultation with her coach Bart Bennema, Visser had to make a decision about her future: the heptathlon or hurdles. With the
2018 European Championships in Berlin on the doorstep and given her chances of victory on the hurdles at that event, she decided to concentrate on hurdling. She finished fourth at the European Championships in a time of
12.88 s.
2019 . In 2019, she started with winning the 60 m hurdles title at the
2019 European Indoor Championships in
Glasgow. At the
2019 World Athletics Championships held in
Doha, she finished sixth in the 100 m hurdles final. She had broken her own national record in the semi-finals, clocking 12.62 s (+1.0).
2021 Visser successfully defended her European 60 m hurdles title at
Toruń 2021 in Poland, improving her own Dutch record to 7.77 seconds. She finished fifth in the 100 m hurdles at the postponed
2020 Tokyo Olympics with a time of 12.73 s. ==Personal bests==