Femmy Groen

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Femmy Groen
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NationalityDutch
Born(1935-04-29)29 April 1935
Giethoorn, Netherlands
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Sport Speed skating

Femmy Woltman-Groen (born 29 April 1935) was a Dutch kortebaan speed skater in the 1950s and early 1960s. She later became a writer, also using the pseudonym KLssBES. since 1980. [1]

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Sports

Already from young age Groen did athletics, korfball and speed skating.

Athletics and korfball

Groen was a member of the athletics club in Wolvega. She became champion of the north division in the 4 x 80 metres relay. However, she couldn’t combine athletics with korfball and stopped with athletics. [1]

Groen played korfball with the Giethoorn club “Samen Eén”. [2] She was for three years a member of the selection team of region Drenthe. [1]

Speed skating

With her uncle Anne Groen, who also trained her, she went to kortebaan skating competitions in Overijssel, Drenthe, Friesland and Groningen. [1]

Groen won her first prize in February 1954. A sixth place at Molengat in Giethoorn, winning 7.50 Dutch Guilder. Tine de Vries won this competition. [3] And later won that month a third prize in Slijkenburg. [4] Groen won a main prize in early 1955 in Zwinderen. [5] In February 1956 she surprised by beating Arina Struik in Wijster. [6] Her main victory during the 1955-56 skating seasons was becoming champion of Overijssel in ‘s- Heerenbroek for the first time. During the winter of 1956–57 she participated in 21 competitions. She won 10 of those races and won a total of 870 Dutch Guilder. [1] In February 1957 she became for the second time champion of Overijssel in Giethoorn. [7]

In 1959, she beat on 17 January the later world champion Atje Deelstra in Peize. [8] Early February 1959 she won a main competition in Kuinre winning 80 Dutch Guilder [9] and on 7 February she won a main competition in Noordwolde, winning 100 Dutch Guilder. [10] The next day she lost to Atje Deelstra in Esloo. On 10 February she won for the third time in her career the championships of Overijssel in Emmeloord. Later in Giethoorn on 14 February she beated Atje Deelstra. [10] Unfortunately, due to the thaw, the Dutch National Kortebaan Speed Skating Championships to be held on 15 February were cancelled. After being married in the end of 1959, she continued with speed skating in 1960 and 1962. Her last race was in Espen in 1962. She stopped with speed skating because she became a mother and did’t have time for speed skating anymore.

In October 2010 the book “De Vrouwen Van De Hardrijderij, het plakboek van de rijdsters uit de periode 1943-1970” was published, where Groen contributed to, writing about the winter of 1959–60.

Writing

Groen started writing sketches, lyrics and poems in Dutch. Later she started writing in the regional language. She published between 2002 and 2006 three collections of stories in the regional language of Overijssel. She is editor of the online magazine “Kopstôkken  [ nds-nl ]. Woltman contributes every month to “'t Gieters Ni-js”, under pseudonym KLssBES since 1980. She writes also every month for “Zonnenieuws”, the magazine of the Zonnewiede retirement home. IJsselacademie  [ nl ] published several poets and stories she wrote in the regional language of Gieten. Femmy is a member of the Schrieversbond Oaveriessel and the regional working group North-West Oaveriesselse Schrieverskring (NWO-S). [11]

Personal

Her father, Lucas Groen (1905-1934), died shortly before she was born. Her mother Hendrikje Maat (1908–1997) moved back to the house of her parents with her brother Henk (born 1931). Groen was born in that home of her grandparents in Giethoorn on 29 April 1934. She would live her whole life in Giethoorn and in the house where she was born until 2010. Femmy attended primary school in Giethoorn and afterwards for several years the ULO and the domestic school in Steenwijk. After school she worked in the household in Steenwijk until her marriage. She married on 14 August 1959 to Johan Woltman. After the wedding in the registry office in Giethoorn, a group of speed skaters honored them, as with the kortebaan marriage tradition. They got four children Henny (born 1962), Luciënne (born 1963), Harma (born 1967) and Ronald (born 1970). [1]

Her younger niece, also called Femmy Groen, was also a kortebaan speedskater in the 1960s. They have also competed same competitions. [12]

Groen was for 35 years (1960-1995) a board member of the gymnastics club “Samen Een”. The club where she played korfball herself. [1] She supervised handicapped sportspeople for 40 years. She was also a member of the management committee “Olde Skoele” and did other voluntary work in Giethoorn for a long time. [1] She was awarded a royal award in the order of Orange-Nassau in 1993 and she was awarded the volontairy prize of Overijssel in 2018. [13]

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  2. ↑ "Gevonden in Delpher - Opregte Steenwijker courant". www.delpher.nl.
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  9. ↑ "Gevonden in Delpher - Leeuwarder courant : hoofdblad van Friesland". www.delpher.nl.
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  11. 1 2 "Mijn Stad Mijn Dorp - Femmy Woltman-Groen". Mijn Stad Mijn Dorp.
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  13. ↑ "Femmy Woltman-Groen - Overijsselse Vrijwilligersprijs 2018". overijsselsevrijwilligersprijs.nl.
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