Five years later, in 1997, she attended a local sports day for prosthesis users where her interest in athletics was born.

[2] A day later, she improved her personal best and national record at the long jump to 3.55 metres during the FBK-Games of that year.

She successfully defended her national titles in both disciplines and at the Paralympic Challenge in Duderstadt on 20 May 2006 she ran a new world record over 100 metres in 16.90 seconds.

Despite missing her third national 100 metres title, she ran a new, but unofficial world record at the Run2Day Track Meetings in Utrecht, to improve to 16.64 seconds.

She also participated in a race over 200 metres for the very first time in her career, running straight to a new World record of 34.46 seconds.

[3] On 1 June 2008, at the Open Dutch Championships in Emmeloord, Roozen once again broke the 100 metres world record with a new best time of 16.48 seconds.