Sjoerd Huisman (19 June 1986 – 30 December 2013) was a Dutch

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

who specialised in marathon speed skating.

Career

Huisman made his debut in marathon speed skating in 2005 to become one of the best sprinters in the peloton. His biggest success was winning the Dutch championship on natural ice in 2009 at the

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. A year later Huisman won the Essent Cup and the Dutch Open at the Austrian Weissensee. Huisman was also successful in inline skating. In 2010 he won the Dutch marathon championship. In May 2011, Huisman was involved in a car accident after he blacked-out behind the wheel. Seven months later he returned to the peloton.

Honours

* Dutch national marathon speed skating champion: 1 time * Dutch national marathon inlineskating champion: 1 time

Personal longtrack records

Personal life and death

His sister, Mariska Huisman, is one of the Netherlands' most successful female marathon speed skaters. On 30 December 2013, Huisman died of cardiac arrest, aged only 27. He had finished only second to

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in one of his final races, on 22 December 2013.Sjoerd Huisman (27) overleden
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