Kai Verbij (born 25 September 1994) is a Dutch

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marath ...

who is specialized in the sprint distances. His mother is Japanese, while his father is Dutch.

Career

Together with

Ronald Mulder Ronald Mulder (born 27 February 1986) is a Dutch speed skater. He won bronze in the men's 500 metres event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and finished sixth in the men's 500 metres event at the 2012 World Single Distance Champion ...

and

Stefan Groothuis Stefan Groothuis (born 23 November 1981) is a Dutch retired speed skater. He is the World Sprint Champion for 2012 and the gold medal winner in the 1000 metres at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Career Groothuis, a specialist in the middle distances ...

, Verbij won the

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event at the

2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup The 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, officially the ''ISU World Cup Speed Skating 2015–2016'', was a series of international speed skating competitions that ran the entire season. The season started on 13 November 2015 in Calgary, Calgary, ...

event in

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on 14 November 2015. In January 2016 he won the title at the

KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships The Dutch Sprint Championships of speed skating, organised by the (KNSB), is the official Netherlands, Dutch championship to determine the Dutch Sprint champion. The Sprint distance championships date back to 1969 for men and 1983 for women. Men's ...

Records

Personal records

World records

Tournament overview

Source:

World Cup overview

References

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Verbij, Kai 1994 births Living people Dutch male speed skaters Dutch people of Japanese descent Sportspeople from Leiderdorp Speed skaters from South Holland Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists 21st-century Dutch sportsmen