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In 1975 she finished second in the 400 metres senior Dutch championships.
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In 1975 she finished second in the 400 metres senior Dutch championships.
She competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final. Commandeur started competing in athletics in 1973 and soon became a leading junior Dutch runner and javelin thrower. She shaved 0.2 s from it two weeks later in Aalst, setting a Dutch seniors record and a world youth record.
Commandeur missed the 1976 Olympics due to injuries that kept returning in 1977–1978, In early 1979 she focused on pentathlon (and later heptathlon) aiming for the 1980 Olympics.
Next year she finished second in the national championships and did not qualify for the Games. She competed in this event at the 1980 World Championships in Athletics and later at the 1984 Olympics, but failed to reach the finals.
A few years after the Games she retired from competitions due to injuries and started her career as television and radio personality. Between 1984 and 1991 she was involved with the morning exercise radio program "NOS Sport".
The couple has two children.
From 2000 to 2007, together with Karl Noten she presented the morning gymnastics television program Nederland in Beweging!. In parallel, she run her fitness company Olga Commandeur PROmotions.