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| Full name | Jutta Monica Leerdam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 December 1998 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 500 m, 1000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Team Jumbo Visma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jutta Monica Leerdam (born 30 December 1998) is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the sprint events.
Leerdam became the junior world champion at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland. The following year, at the 2018 Championships in Salt Lake City, United States, she finished second behind compatriot Joy Beune. [1]
During the 2017–18 season, she won the ISU Junior World Cup competition in the 1000m and 1500m events. She also became the Dutch junior sprint champion.
In 2018, she turned professional and became a member of Team IKO. [2]
Since turning professional Leerdam won the 1000m world title twice (2020 and 2023), silver at that distance at the 2022 Winter Olympics and also the gold medal at the World Sprint Championships in 2022. Leerdam joined Team Jumbo-Visma in 2022 and is under contract until 2024. [3]
Leerdam was named after the German windsurfing world champion Jutta Müller by her father, a windsurfing enthusiast. Her great-niece Dione Voskamp is also a speed skater. [4] Leerdam studies commercial economics at the Johan Cruyff Academy of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen. [5]
Leerdam was in a relationship with Dutch speed skater Koen Verweij beginning in 2017. [6] On 1 August 2022, she announced on her Instagram page that they had broken up. [7] Leerdam and American social media personality and professional boxer Jake Paul publicly confirmed being a couple on 3 April 2023, after the two had gotten in touch via Instagram a few months earlier. [8]
| Personal records [9] | ||||
| Speed skating | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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| 500 meter | 37.14 | 27 December 2022 | Thialf, Heerenveen | |
| 1000 meter | 1:11.84 | 15 February 2020 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | Dutch record. |
| 1500 meter | 1:53.64 | 29 October 2021 | Thialf, Heerenveen | |
| 3000 meter | 4:05.19 | 10 March 2018 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | |
| Nr. | Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Team sprint | 1:24.029 | 13 February 2020 | Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City | With Letitia de Jong and Femke Kok |
Season | Dutch Championships Single Distances | Dutch Championships Sprint | European Championships Sprint | World Championships Sprint | World Championships Single Distances | Olympic Games | World Championships Allround Junior | World Cup Junior | World Cup GWC | European Championships Single Distances |
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2016–17 | HEERENVEEN 14th 500m 12th 1000m 15th 1500m | HELSINKI  500m  1500m 7th 1000m 3000m overall team pursuit | ||||||||
2017–18 | HEERENVEEN 11th 500m 10th 1000m 14th 1500m | SALT LAKE CITY  500m 1500m 1000m 3000m overall team pursuit team sprint | 500m 1000m 1500m overall | |||||||
2018–19 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | COLLALBO 4th 500m 1000m 4th 500m 1000m 4th overall | HEERENVEEN 16th 500m 6th 1000m 15th 500m 4th 1000m 10th overall | INZELL 16th 500m 5th 1000m team sprint | 20th 500m 15th 1000m | ||||
2019–20 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HAMAR 15th 500m 1000m 7th 500m 1000m 5th overall | SALT LAKE CITY 8th 500m 1000m team sprint | 24th 500m 4th 1000m team sprint | HEERENVEEN DNS 500m 1000m | |||||
2020–21 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m | 28th 500m 18th 1000m | |||||
2021–22 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HAMAR 5th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | BEIJING 5th 500m 1000m | 20th 500m 15th 1000m | HEERENVEEN 1000m | |||||
2022–23 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 1500m | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | HAMAR 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 7th 1500m | 4th 500m 1000m 22nd 1500m |
| Season | 500 meter | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–18 | | | | Junior | ||||||||
| 2018–19 | 11th | 13th | 9th | 11th | 14th | 16th | 11th | – | – | – | – | |
| 2019–20 | 12th | 8th | 11th | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 2020–21 | 6th | – | – | – | ||||||||
| 2021–22 | 12th | 12th | 7th | 4th | 7th | 20th | ||||||
| 2022–23 | | | | 5th | – | | 20th | |||||
| Season | 1000 meter | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–18 | | | | Junior | ||||
| 2018–19 | 10th | 9th | 10th | 7th | – | – | – | |
| 2019–20 | 4th | 6th | – | 9th | | |||
| 2020–21 | 4th | – | ||||||
| 2021–22 | 5th | 4th | | |||||
| 2022–23 | | | | | – | | ||
| Season | 1500 meter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–18 | | | Junior | |||
| 2018–19 | ||||||
| 2019–20 | ||||||
| 2020–21 | ||||||
| 2021–22 | ||||||
| 2022–23 | 10th | 8th | 7th | – | – | – |
| Season | Team sprint | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017–18 | ||||
| 2018–19 | ||||
| 2019–20 | | | | – |
| 2020–21 | ||||
| 2021–22 | ||||
| 2022–23 | ||||
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The women's 500 meter at the 2023 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Saturday 4 February 2023. There were 20 participants who raced twice over 500m so that all skaters had to start once in the inner lane and once in the outer lane. Femke Kok, Jutta Leerdam, and Michelle de Jong qualified for the 2023 ISU World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen.
The women's 1000 meter at the 2023 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships in Heerenveen took place at Thialf ice skating rink on Sunday 5 February 2023. There were 20 participants. Jutta Leerdam, Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong, and Michelle de Jong qualified for the 2023 ISU World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen.
The women's 1500 meter at the 2023 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships in Heerenveen took place at Thialf ice skating rink on Friday 3 February 2023. There were 20 participants. Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong, Marijke Groenewoud, and Jutta Leerdam qualified for the 2023 ISU World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen.
