Wil van Wees

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Wil van Wees
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Van Wees at the 1965 Dutch Allround Championships
Personal information
Full nameWilhelmina M. van Wees
Nickname(s)Willy
Born (1942-01-25) January 25, 1942 (age 79)
Muiden, Netherlands
Sport
Country Netherlands
Sport Speed skating
Retired1966

Wilhelmina M. "Wil" Blom-van Wees also called Willy van Wees (born 25 January 1942) is a Dutch former long track speed skater, who was active in the 1960s. [1]

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Van Wees was born in Muiden. She won the silver medal at the 1963 Dutch Allround Championships. In the winter of 1963/1964 Van Wees set a new Dutch record in the 1000 meters. She was one of the ladies who was invited in October 1964 for the first Dutch women's national team (in Dutch nl:kernploeg) with, among others, Stien Kaiser and Carry Geijssen, with coach and trainer Piet Zwanenburg. The ladies were dedicated and funded their own training camp in Norway in 1965.

She represented her nation at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in 1966. A fall in the 500 meters caused that she wasn't able to have a good final classification and finished 16th overall. [2] At the end of that season she won the title of Amsterdam ahead of Carry Geijssen and she won the 3rd Internationaler Mannschafts-Städtekampf um den Wanderpokal der BZ am Abend. [3] ] Due to the good performances this season she finished 6th in the world season ranking 1965/1966. [4]

After the 1965/1966 season she retired from speed skating because she was getting married. Later she was still into speed skating, active at Sichting START. [5]

Records

Dutch national records

Nr.DistanceTimeDateTrack
11000 meter1.43,825 January 1964 Amsterdam

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Note: Until 1969, the KNSB only recognized a Dutch national record if the time was set in the Netherlands. [7]

Personal records

Personal records
Women's speed skating
EventResultDateLocationNotes
500 m46,830.01.1966 Brandbu
1000 m1.39,013.02.1966 Trondheim
1500 m2.32,005.03.1966 Berlin
3000 m5.17,531.01.1966 Brandbu

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References

  1. ↑ "SpeedSkatingStats.com". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "Competition results, statistics and records; SpeedSkatingNews". www.speedskatingnews.info. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Ergebnisse | SpeedSkatingNews". www.speedskatingnews.info.
  4. ↑ Kleine 1966, p. 25.
  5. ↑ "KNSB Handboek 2011" (PDF). KNSB.nl. KNSB. 2011. Archived from the original (pdf) on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  6. ↑ Bijlsma c.s. 1997, pp. 459-464.
  7. ↑ Bijlsma c.s. 1997, p. 448.
  8. ↑ "Skaters: Wil van Wees". www.speedskatingbase.eu. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
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