Pietje Feitsma

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Pietje Feitsma
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Feitsma (15 years old)
Personal information
Born(1918-12-09)9 December 1918
Hijlaard, Netherlands [1]
Sport
Country Netherlands
Sport Speed skating (kortebaan)

Pietje Hornstra-Feitsma (born 9 December 1918) is a former Dutch female kortebaan speed skater. [2]

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Feitsma was born according to the original register in Hijlaard, [1] while a source also indicates Dronrijp. [2] She rode her first competition on 6 December 1933 when she was 14 years old in her hometown Dronrijp. She won the first prize (f 40,-) ahead of Trijntje Terpstra and her three year older sister Loltje. On 17 December the same year she won the silver medal at the Dutch National Kortebaan Speed Skating Championships in Warga, where she lost the final of Grietje Bijlsma. [2]

Family

Her grandfather Age Feitsma van Duinum was also a speed skater winning prizes in 1865 and 1866. Next to her sister Jeltje, also her brother Age (born 1918; emigrated to the United States) won prizes in 1918. [2]

Achievements

incomplete list

1933–34
1st prize (f 40,-) - 6 December 1933 in Dronrijp
4th prize (f 5,-) - 9 December 1933 in Huizum
2nd prize (f 20,-)- 10 December 1933 in Stiens
1st prize (f 25,-) - 11 December 1933 in Britswerd
3rd prize (f 15,-) - 14 December 1933 in Wolvega
1st prize (f 15,-)- in Deersum
1st prize (f 50,-) - 16 December 1933 in Ried
17 December 1933 Dutch national championships in Warga
2nd prize (f 45,- & Silver medal icon.svg medal)
Fastest race
2nd prize (f 60,-)- 18 December 1933 in Berlikum (behind Grietje Bijlsma, ahead of Sjoukje Bouma)
1935-36
2nd prize (f 25,-) - 21 December 1935 in Hardegarijp, class A, 6 participants (behind Marie v. d. Duim-De Groot)

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Rijpkema, J. H. (17 May 1936). "Gedenkschrift bij het 50-jarig bestaan van den Frieschen IJsbond 1886-1936, alsmede iets over hardrijders en hardrijdsters in vroeger en later jaren". Noord-Nederlandsche Boekhandel. p.  173 via Koninklijke Bibliotheek.