Elisa ("Elly") Maria van Hulst (born 9 June 1959) is a former middle distance runner from the Netherlands.

Elly van Hulst's career would last for almost twenty years and bring her 65 national, three European and two world titles.

Eventually Van Hulst could not participate in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, because she was in the hospital for medical tests.

Just before the European Championships in 1994 in Paris, she heard that one of the ingredients of her medication was on the list of banned substances.

Two years later, the ingredient in question was found to be harmless and was removed from the list of banned substances, but this change came too late for Van Hulst: she was not able to participate in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.