Jan Maarten Heideman

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Jan Maarten Heideman
Personal information
Born (1973-06-16) 16 June 1973 (age 48)
Gelselaar, Netherlands [1]
Sport
Country Netherlands
Sport Speed skating
Medal record
Men's speed skating
Representing the Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Dutch Marathon Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2000 Artificial ice
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2002 Artificial ice
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2004 Artificial ice

Jan Maarten Heideman (born 16 June 1973) is a Dutch speed skater who specialises in marathon speed skating.

Heideman, currently living in a small town named Gelselaar in the Achterhoek, started as an all-around speed skater, finishing in 8th position three times at the Dutch All-around Speed Skating Championships in 1994,1995 and 1996. In 1996 he won the bronze medal at the 1500 metres at the KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships. [2] However, at the age of six he already skated 25 kilometres in one day at the Bolksbeek. [3]

Known as the sprinter among the marathon speed skaters he broke the record of most speed skating marathon wins on artificial tracks after he won his 48th marathon on 21 December 2003. At the end of the 2004–05 season he already expanded his new record to a total of 56 artificial track wins. He became Dutch national marathon speed skating champion three times and won the Alternative Elfstedentocht in Finland twice. [4] [5] In 2006 he won the Open Dutch nature track marathon speed skating Championship at the Weissensee in Austria for the third time. [6] He is also a three-time winner of the Essent Cup and a four-time winner of the Six Days of the Greenery. [7] [8] In Assen on 18 November 2006 in a race for the Essent Cup 2006-07 he won his 67th win. [9]

Jan Maarten Heideman is also known to be the Willie Wortel (Gyro Gearloose) of the speed skating peloton. [10] Together with his sponsor Raps he tested various techniques. In 1997 he was the first and until today the only skater who skated the Elfstedentocht on clap skates. He was also the first skater to show up with the 3D-skate, the carve-skate, the shark suit, the bird suit, the kluun shoe, the heater skate and the change skate. [3] [11]

In 2001 he released a book called "Leren van schaatser Jan Maarten Heideman" (Learning from speed skater Jan Maarten Heideman). [3] He was one of the skaters that organised a mass in an Austrian church with 450 speed skaters showing up in the weekend the Alternative Elfstedentocht was skated in 2004. [11] [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Fysiotherapeut en schaatser Jan Maarten Heideman wil 'het naar 't zin hebben'". Anje Produkties (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  2. ↑ Jan Maarten Heideman, skateresult.com
  3. 1 2 3 Leren van schaatser Jan Maarten Heideman, boekenmijn.nl
  4. ↑ Heideman wint Finse ‘elfstedentocht’ op twee paar schaatsen, frieschdagblas.nl
  5. ↑ Nederlandse kampioenschappen Kunstijs
  6. ↑ Nederlandse kampioenschappen natuurijs, marathonschaatsen.nl
  7. ↑ KNSB-Cup, marathonschaatsen.nl
  8. ↑ Greenery Six Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine , schaatspeloton.nl
  9. ↑ Heideman weer op recordjacht [ permanent dead link ], knsb.nl
  10. ↑ Heideman denkt altijd een stapje verder, sportweek.nl
  11. 1 2 getuigenis, marathonschaatser team Proteq, sportwitnesses.nl
  12. ↑ Alternatieve Elfstedentocht 2004 Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine , weissensee.nl
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