('short track skating') is an old form of Dutch

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tournament that goes back to the 18th century. It is not to be confused with the modern speed skating sport known as

short-track speed skating Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice skating, ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of . The rink itself is long by wide, which is the s ...

. The sport is similar to

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(known as ) and is similarly set up in two straight lanes of 160 meters.

History

Since 1805 women's is held over a distance of 140 meters. In the first race held for women in 1805 in

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won by Trijntje Pieters Westra, the women were "just as fast as the horses", which referred to a previous that had been held previously that week with sleighs instead of wheeled sulkies. Tekstblad bij de prent van de schaatswedstrijd voor vrouwen te Leeuwarden, 1805, P.H. Meyer en Co., 1805 - 1807 The full list of women participants with their ages and addresses was published in an account by Evert Maaskamp. The women's sport was popular because the women were skating with bare arms and were seen to be unusually talented and strong. A print was made that became popular, that was accompanied by another engraving with a commemorative descriptive text. The first Dutch national champions were for men Thijs Klompmaker (1926) and for women Sjoukje Bouma (1933). File:Luisterrijke Vrouwen Schaatschen Rijdparty.jpg, First women's race in Leeuwarden in 1805, won by Trijntje Pieters Westra File:Schaatswedstrijd voor vrouwen op de Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden - 21 januari 1809 - Nicolaas Baur - 1809 - SK-A-5020 - Rijksmuseum.jpg, Women's race in Leeuwarden in 1809, won by Houkje Gerrits Bouma File:Kortebaanwedstrijd in Hindelopen.jpg, Race in Hindeloopen in 1828

Competitions

Modern kortebaanschaatsen

Today most large Dutch cities have indoor skating rinks, and the rise of

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as a sport has enabled many young skaters to learn early how to skate through turns, which was never necessary on kortebaan tracks. With shorter and shorter periods of frost, fewer and fewer sprint tournaments were held, which caused the creation of the indoor sprint alternative now known as KNSB Dutch Super Sprint Championships.

Skaters

Women

* Trijntje Pieters Westra (1783-1861) * Houkje Gerrits Bouma (1788-1857) * Trijntje Reidinga (1799-1869) * Anke Beenen (1853-1886) * Jeltje van der Werf (1852-1934) * Ynskje Wagenaar (born 1868) * Lutske Wester (1870-1912) * Gelske Venema-Brouwe (1876–1957) * Joukje Postma (born 1877) * Sytske Spijkstra (born 1877) * Baukje de Boer-Veenstra (born 1881-1969) * Geertje Engelsma (1887-1969) * Martha Hemminga (1900-1968) * Jitske sietzes-de Boer (born 1906-1977) * Loltje Tolman-de Boer (born 1910) *

Tietje Spannenburg-Pagels Tietje Spannenburg-Pagels (born 2 June 1906) was a Dutch kortebaan speed skater. Spannenburg-Pagels was born in Hallum. She later lived in Wommels. Between 1917 and 1933 she won a total of 56 prizes. Next to money prizes and two medals she a ...

(born 1906) * Janna van der Meulen (1907–1981) * Annie de Jong-Zondervan (1907-1972) * Klaasje Hofstee (born 1909) * Houkje van der Meer (born 1910) * Trijntje Terpstra (born 1910) * Geesje Woudstra (1911-1971) *

Sjoukje Bouma Sjoukje () is a Dutch and West Frisian feminine given name. It is a diminutive derived from the West Frisian masculine name Sieuwe. As of 2017, Sjoukje was the first name of 3,706 women (0.0497%) and a middle name of 1,579 women (0.0214%) in th ...

(1911-2008) * Trijntje Hemminga (1914-1994) * Griet Bijlsma (born 1915) * Hennie Sietsema * Annie Heersema * Sietske Pasveer (1915-2001) * Makke Groen (1917-1977) * Antje Koopmans * Pietje Feitsma (1918-1933) * Durkje Huitema (1918–2010) * Meta Nienhuis * Fokje van der Velde (1918-2008) * Lien van der Mei * Ike Nienhuis (1921-2001) * Annie Pijlman (1925-2013) * Coba Hoekstra (born 1925) * Joke Hoekstra * Tjitske Hartoog-Minkema (1926–1990) * Jantje Bosscha * Rina Kooi * Elske van Dam *

Annie van der Meer Annie van der Steeg-Van der Meer (10 August 1928 — 30 May 2004) was a Dutch kortebaan speed skater, with her best results in the 1950s. During her career she won a total of 75 prizes. She became twice Frisian champion and won the silver meda ...

(1928-2004) * Dirkje Kiers (born 1929) * Saakje de Jong (born 1929) * Lucie Koops * Zwaantje Mulder * Antje Sietema * Sietske de Boer * Geertje Brouwer * Grietje Dieterman-Schuur * Tine de Vries (1931–2014) * Sita Homan-Wagemaker (1931–2015) * Trijntje Jelsma * Jeltje Haanstra * Afke Stoker (born 1932) * Akke de Boer * Tine Huberts * Jantje Hagenou-Bathoorn * Riekje Tuinema-Ruben (born 1933) * Henny Wiegersma-van den Brug (c. 1934-1988) * Femmy Groen (born 1935) * Martha Wieringa (1935-2008) * Jantje Tienkamp (born 1936) * Gooitske de Jong * Antje Hoekstra (born 1938) * Dinie Kussendrager (born 1939) *

Atje Keulen-Deelstra Atje Keulen-Deelstra (31 December 1938 – 22 February 2013) was a Dutch speed skater, who was a four-time World Allround Champion between the age of 32 and 36.Ieuwkje Hoekstra * Lutske Hiddinga * Marijke Flisijn (1943–2007) * Grietje Boelm (born 1944) * Grietje Oosterhof * Rinske Zeinstra * Willy Burgmeyer * Annie van Dalsen *

Truus Dijkstra Truus is a feminine Dutch given name, often a shortened hypocorism of Geertruida. Notable people with the name include: * Truus van Aalten (1910–1999), Dutch actress * Truus Bauer (1945–1989), Dutch rower * Truus Baumeister (1907–2000) Dutch ...

* Anneke Zeinstra * Margriet Pomper * Sophie Westenbroek (born 1948) * Grietje van der Meer (born 1949)

Men

* Jouke Schaap (1846-1923) * Pieter Peereboom (1893–1941)

References

{{reflist Ice skating events Speed skating in the Netherlands History of sport in the Netherlands