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Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde (born 30 November 1971) is a Dutch retired speed skater who specialised in sprinting. He won an Olympic gold medal in 2002.

BiographyEdit

Van Velde was considered the best Dutch sprinter during the early 1990s, but did not manage to win a medal in either the 1992 or 1994 Winter Olympics. Particularly frustrating were the 1992 Games, where he missed a bronze medal by one-hundredth of a second.

During the late 1990s, clap skates became standard in Olympic competition. Van Velde had such difficulty adjusting to the techniques required with these new skates that he retired from skating and became a car salesman. However, he was not finished with the skating world.

Rintje Ritsma, another Dutch skater invited Van Velde to be his training partner, and, during training, he mastered the clap skate techniques. He decided to try out for the 2002 Winter Olympics, in spite of the arrival of a new generation of Dutch sprinters such as Jan Bos, Erben Wennemars and Jakko Jan Leeuwangh. Van Velde became the fourth sprinter to qualify for the games.

In Salt Lake City, he started before all the other favorites and raced to a world record finish. His time of 1:07.18 shaved more than half a second from the previous best world time, and more than a second from his personal best. The skaters who followed were unable to best him, and he won the gold medal.

In December 2005, at the Dutch Olympic trials in Heerenveen, van Velde failed to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In retirement he became a coach.<ref name=sports-reference/>

RecordsEdit

Personal recordsEdit

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World recordsEdit

Event Result Date Location Notes
1000 m 1:07.18 16 February 2002 Template:Flagicon Salt Lake City World record until 20 November 2005

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Tournament overviewEdit


Season
Dutch
Championships
Single
Distances
Dutch
Championships
Sprint
Olympic
Games
World
Championships
Single
Distances
World
Championships
Sprint
World
Cup
GWC

1989–90
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16th 500m
17e 1000m
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10th 1000m
6th 500m
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8th overall

1990–91
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10 th1500m
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10th 1000m
16th 500m
17th 1000m
15th overall

1991–92
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5th 500m
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9th 500m
16th 1000m
6th 500m
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1992–93
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4th 1000m
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9th 1000m
15th 500m
8th 1000m
11th overall

1993–94
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13th 500m
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21st 500m
9th 1000m
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5th 1000m
17th 500m
33rd 1000m
30th overall

1994–95
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4th 1000m
11th 500m
5th 1000m
10th overall

1995–96
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10th 500m
4th 1000m
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36th 500m
4th 1000m
25th 500m
10th 1000m
33rd overall

13th 500m
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1996–97
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18th 500m
6th 1000m
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12th 500m
10th 1000m
13th 500m
8th 1000m
11th overall

15th 500m
6th 1000m

1997–98
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4th 500m
7th 1000m
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7th 500m
7th 1000m
7th 500m
10th 1000m
6th overall
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NS2 500m

44th 500m
23rd 1000m
1998–99

1999–2000
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20th 500m
23rd 1000m
21st overall

32nd 500m
37th 1000m

2000–01
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12th 1000m
19th 1500m
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19th 500m
14th 1000m

2001–02
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5th 500m
9th 1000m

2002–03
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4th 500m
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2003–04
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6th 1000m
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4th overall

27th 100m
7th 500m
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2004–05
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14th 1500m
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NC overall

11th 500m
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2005–06
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11th 1000m
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9th 500m
7th 1000m

2006–07
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9th 1000m
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4th overall
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15h 500m
14th 1000m
DNS 500m
DNS 1000m
NC overall

15th 500m

2007–08
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8th 500m
13th 1000m
12th 500m
11th 1000m
10th overall

2008–09
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5th 500m
4th 1000m
6th 500m
4th 1000m
6th overall

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DQ = Disqualified
DNF = Did not finish
DNS = Did not start
NC = No classification

Medals wonEdit

Championship Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Dutch Single Distances 12 5 3
Dutch Sprint 6 4 1
Olympic Games 1 0 0
World Single Distances 0 1 0
World Sprint 0 1 0

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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