Mark Jan Hendrik Tuitert (; born 4 April 1980) is a retired Dutch speed skater. He won gold at the

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at the

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Personal life

Tuitert married fellow Dutch speed skater

Helen van Goozen Helen Tuitert-van Goozen (born 25 December 1980, in Hoogmade), is a former Netherlands, Dutch speed skater. She is married to fellow speed skater and Olympic speed skating champion Mark Tuitert. Van Goozen won gold at the World Junior Speed Skati ...

in 2009. Ten years before, they both won gold medals at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships.

Speed skating career

2006 Olympic Games in Turin

Tuitert participated in the team pursuit event at the

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, with teammates

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, Carl Verheijen, Erben Wennemars and

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. The Dutch team was a favourite and was leading Italy by nearly a full second in their semifinal matchup, but

stepped on a block and fell, taking Carl Verheijen with him. In the race for bronze they defeated Norway, giving Tuitert his first Olympic medal.

2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver

At the

in Vancouver, British Columbia he won the gold medal in the

. In the 17th pair against Håvard Bøkko he set a new track record time (1:45.57), which had been in the hands of Shani Davis (1:46.19). In the last heat, Davis failed by 0.13 seconds to improve on Tuitert's time and finished second. Until then, the only other Dutch Olympic gold medal winners in the 1500 meters speed skating were Kees Verkerk at the

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and Ard Schenk at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

2014 Olympic Games in Sochi

At the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

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Tuitert finished 10th in the

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and 5th in the

Other

Tuitert highest ranking on the adelskalender. was the 6th position between 30 December 2000 and 2 March 2001.

Life after skating

After his speed skating career Tuitert co-founded First Energy Gum, a company which produces caffeinated Energy Gum for athletes. Tuitert is also a pundit in speed skating for Dutch broadcaster NOS and an online fitness coach for FitChannel.com.

Records

World records

* ** Together with Carl Verheijen and Erben Wennemars

Personal records

To put his personal records in perspective, the column ''Notes'' lists the official world records on the dates that Tuitert skated his personal records. Source
marktuitert.nl
Tuitert has a score of 149.198 points on the Adelskalender

Tournament overview

Source:

World Cup overview

Source:"ISU World Cup Results"
/ref> * NC = No classification * DSQ = Disqualified * DNF = Did not finish * DNQ = Did not qualify * * = 10000 meter

Medals won

References

External links

Official website Mark Tuitert
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuitert, Mark 1980 births Dutch male speed skaters Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters of the Netherlands Olympic medalists in speed skating Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands People from Holten Living people World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists Sportspeople from Overijssel