Cornelius KERSTEN

Great Britain
Speed Skating
19 Jul 1994
27
Male
1.87/6'1''
HAARLEM
 
Netherlands
HEERENVEEN
 
Netherlands

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SSK Speed Skating Men's 500m 25
Men's 1000m 9
Men's 1500m 19

Schedule

Start Time Location Event Status
National Speed Skating Oval
Men's 1500m
Finished
National Speed Skating Oval
Men's 500m
Finished
National Speed Skating Oval
Men's 1000m
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Historical Results

European Championships
RankEventYearLocation
18Men's Sprint2019Collalbo, ITA
23Men's Mass Start2020Heerenveen, NED
World Single Distance Championships
RankEventYearLocation
11Men's 1000m2021Heerenveen, NED
18Men's 1500m2021Heerenveen, NED
World Sprint Championships
RankEventYearLocation
20Men's Sprint2018Changchun, CHN
World Cup
SeasonMen's 500mMen's 1000mMen's 1500mMen's Mass Start
2020/212134
2019/2073566946
2018/19605967
2017/1856547649
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Corno

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Athlete, Entrepreneur

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Partner, Ellia Smeding.

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Dutch, English

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Team Worldstream (NED)

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Club: Kosta Poltavets (RUS)

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Partner Ellia Smeding (Speed skating): Finished 23rd in the 1000m at the 2021 World Championships. Three top-20 finishes at the 2020 European Championships. Seventeen-time national champion from 2015-19.

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2017 World Cup in Heerenveen (1000m B - 35th, 1500m B - 28th, Mass Start - 21st)

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2015: Broken clavicle, concussion and damaged teeth forced him to miss five months.

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2017

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Started skating at age four in Haarlem, Netherlands.

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"Humans have evolved to stand up straight and walk forward, and in speed skating, you’re springing down and pushing to the side. When you hit it, it’s a beautiful feeling.” (eurosport.co.uk, 21 Oct 2021)

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“My mission really has been to try and grow the sport back up again [in Great Britain] and bring a bit of a life back into it and if I can inspire a few kids, that would be amazing.” (eurosport.co.uk, 21 Oct 2021)

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Short track skater Elise Christie (GBR), three-time Olympian, and three-time World and European champion. (isu.org)

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"The life we live as athletes is very special, every season is a once in a lifetime opportunity." (eurosport.co.uk, 21 Oct 2021)

General Interest

NATIONALITY
Born in the Netherlands to a Dutch father and British mother. Was the Dutch junior champion sprint in 2014, but decided to represent Great Britain instead. (Schaatsseizoen 48, 2020)

OLYMPIC FUNDING
Together with his partner, he founded a coffee company called Brew'22, as a means to supplement funding their travel and training. The idea for the company arose due to the difficulty of finding good coffee while abroad for competition or training. "Whilst in Japan, we came across an innovative product, a single cup filter which enabled us to choose our own coffee bean, grind it and therefore travel with our own coffee." Their coffee flavours include Trailblazer, Underdog, Powerhouse, Dreamcatcher and One of a Kind. (brew22.com, 2021)

LONG WAY HOME
In July, after a training camp in Inzell, Germany, Kersten and teammate Lex Dijkstra, joked about riding their bicycles home. Trainers Tijssen and Poltavets pressed them to stick to their word, and they did. It took them four days to reach their homes in Heerenveen. (schaatsen.nl, 3 Aug 2021)

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