Henk Angenent (born 1 November 1967) is a retired

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, specialising in marathon skating and the longer distances. Angenent won the

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on 4 January 1997, outsprinting favourite

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at the finish. On 12 March 2004 in

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, Angenent skated 41.669 km in one hour, which was the

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in this event until 15 March 2007, when

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skated 300 metres more. The previous world record was

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's 41.041 km from 24 March 1999. He won a 4th place at the 10,000 metres of the 2003 World Single Distance Championships, after

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and

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. Earlier that year he became Dutch champion on the same distance at the

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. Angenent is a farmer, he grows mainly

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s. After winning the Elfstedentocht many interviews were done with Angenent and this subject came up on many occasions. When marathon speedskating became more popular in the Netherlands and the Six Days of the Greenery were introduced, the overall leader of the race wears a Brussels sprout suit. So far he wore the suit himself once in the 2000–01 season. He wore the orange suit for the leader of the Essent Cup a total of 13 days. With his 21 career wins of speed skating marathons on

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s he is ranked 11th together with

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and K. C. Boutiette. He is however 3rd in the ranking of still active skaters, behind

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and

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Results

Personal bests

Angenent has an Adelskalender score of 160.177 points.

References

External links

World records for one hour skating

Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
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