Jutta LEERDAM
NetherlandsEvents and Medals
| Discipline | Event | Rank | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|
 Speed Skating |
Women's 500m | 5 | |
| Women's 1000m | 2 |
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Schedule
Biographical Information
Highlights
Historical Results
| European Championships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
| 1 | Women's 1000m | 2022 | Heerenveen, NED |
| 1 | Women's Sprint | 2021 | Heerenveen, NED |
| 1 | Women's 1000m | 2020 | Heerenveen, NED |
| 4 | Women's Sprint | 2019 | Collalbo, ITA |
| WDR | Women's 500m | 2020 | Heerenveen, NED |
| World Single Distance Championships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
| 1 | Women's Team Sprint | 2020 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| 1 | Women's 1000m | 2020 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| 2 | Women's 1000m | 2021 | Heerenveen, NED |
| 4 | Women's 500m | 2021 | Heerenveen, NED |
| 5 | Women's Sprint | 2020 | Hamar, NOR |
| 5 | Women's 1000m | 2019 | Inzell, GER |
| 8 | Women's 500m | 2020 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| 16 | Women's 500m | 2019 | Inzell, GER |
| World Junior Championships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
| 2 | Women's Allround | 2018 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| World Sprint Championships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
| 10 | Women's Sprint | 2019 | Heerenveen, NED |
| World Cup | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Women's 500m | Women's 1000m | Women's Team Sprint |
| 2020/21 | 28 | 18 | |
| 2019/20 | 24 | 4 | 1 |
| 2018/19 | 20 | 15 | |
Bommetje (Dutch for 'Bomb', due to her skating style being all power with little technique.) (schaatsen.nl, 3 Dec 2016)
Cooking, fashion
Athlete, Student
Economics - Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (NED)
Father, Ruud. Mother, Monique. Sisters, Merel and Beaudine. Brother, Kjeld
Dutch, English
Team Worldstream / IJsvereniging Pijnacker
Club: Kosta Poltavets (RUS), Jan Bos (NED)
Partner Koen Verweij (Speed skating): Two-time Dutch Olympian, winning gold and silver at Sochi 2014 and two bronze medals at PyeongChang 2018. Three-time team pursuit world champion and Allround champion in 2014. Co-founded Team Worldstream, the commercial team that Leerdam also skates in.
2016 International Race in Inzell (500m - 13th, 1000m - 6th, 1500m - 16th)
2018 World Cup in Obihiro (500 m - 11th, 1000m - 10th)
January 2021: Bruised foot forced her to withdraw from the final World Cup in Heerenveen. Returned for World Championships in February.
February 2019: Groin injury forced her to withdraw from the World Cup in Hamar. Returned for the World Singles Distance Championships in Inzell.
2018
Started speed skating at age 11. (isu.org)
Encouraged by her father, who enjoyed skating when young. At that time, she had been playing field hockey. Her father Ruud said, "She combined hockey and skating for about a year. Quite regularly I picked her up from the rink and she had to dress for hockey in the car. Eventually, the regional skating federation asked her to choose between the two." (ad.nl, 17 Jan 2020)
Win a gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (destentor.nl, 6 Apr 2020)
"I prefer to skate with men. They are faster and help me go faster as well." (trouw.nl, 15 Feb 2020)
Winning 1000 m gold at the 2019 World Single Distance Championships in Inzell, in national record time.
"There's no particular skater I'm a fan of. In the future, I think I can beat all of them. But If to have to name anyone, it would be Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS)." (trouw.nl, 15 Feb 2020)
FHM Magazine Most Attractive Athlete of the Year (2019)
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- Silver
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- Gold Medal Event
