 Verbij in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Born | 25 September 1994 Leiderdorp, Netherlands |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sport | Speed skating |
| Event | 1000 m |
| Club | Team Jumbo-Visma |
Medal record | |
Kai Verbij (born 25 September 1994) is a Dutch speed skater who is specialized in the sprint distances. His mother is Japanese, while his father is Dutch.
Together with Ronald Mulder and Stefan Groothuis, Verbij won the team sprint event at the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup event in Calgary on 14 November 2015. [1] In January 2016 he won the title at the KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships.
| Personal records [2] | ||||
| Speed skating | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 meter | 34.13 | 9 December 2017 | Salt Lake City | |
| 1000 meter | 1:06.34 | 9 March 2019 | Salt Lake City | |
| 1500 meter | 1:45.41 | 22 March 2015 | Calgary | |
| 3000 meter | 3:53.70 | 9 December 2012 | Inzell | |
| 5000 meter | 6:56.25 | 18 December 2011 | Inzell | |
| Nr. | Event | Points total | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | World Sprint Championship | 136.065 | 25–26 February 2017 | Calgary | Current world record |
Season | Dutch Championships Single Distances | Dutch Championships Sprint | Dutch Championships Allround | European Championships Sprint | World Championships Sprint | World Championships Single Distances | Olympic Games | World Cup GWC | World Championships Junior | European Championships Single Distances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2011–12 | HEERENVEEN 21st 500m 20th 1000m | HEERENVEEN 12th 500m 12th 1000m 13th 500m 13th 1000m 12th overall | OBIHIRO  500m 16th 3000m  1500m 18th 5000m 8th overall 10th 1000m 5th 1500m 17th 5000m team pursuit | |||||||
2012–13 | HEERENVEEN 14th 500m 18th 1000m 12th 1500m | GRONINGEN 15th 500m 13th 1000m 17th 500m 11th 1000m 13th overall | HEERENVEEN 6th 500m 22nd 5000m 9th 1500m DNQ 10000m 15th overall | COLLALBO 5th 500m 1000m 4th 1500m 6th team pursuit | ||||||
2013–14 | HEERENVEEN 15th 500m 12th 1000m 14th 1500m | BJUGN  500m 1000m 1500m 4th team pursuit | ||||||||
| 2014–15 | HEERENVEEN 7th 500m 5th 1000m 7th 1500m | GRONINGEN 8th 500m 8th 1000m 11th 500m 9th 1000m 6th overall | 41st 500m 13th 1000m 34th 1500m | |||||||
2015–16 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | SEOUL 500m 6th 1000m 6th 500m 4th 1000m overall | KOLOMNO 23rd 500m 7th 1000m | 7th 500m 4th 1000m | |||||
2016–17 | HEERENVEEN 5th 500m 1000m | HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | CALGARY 9th 500m 1000m 4th 500m 9th 1000m overall | GANGNEUNG 1000m | 4th 500m 1000m | |||||
2017–18 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | CHANGCHUN 7th 500m 1000m 11th 500m 1000m overall | GANGNEUNG 9th 500m 6th 1000m | 7th 500m 1000m | ||||||
2018–19 | HEERENVEEN 5th 500m 1000m | COLLALBO 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | HEERENVEEN 500m 10th 1000m 500m 6th 1000m 5th overall | INZELL team sprint 1000m | 13th 500m 1000m | |||||
2019–20 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HAMAR 9th 500m 8th 1000m 5th 500m 5th 1000m 4th overall | SALT LAKE CITY 10th 500m 6th 1000m team sprint | 12th 500m 1000m team sprint | HEERENVEEN 6th 500m 1000m | |||||
2020–21 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 4th 1000m 4th 500m 1000m overall | HEERENVEEN DNF 500m 1000m 500m DNQ 1000m NC overall | HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m | 25th 500m 1000m | |||||
2021–22 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | HAMAR 4th 500m 4th 1000m 6th 500m 1000m overall team sprint | BEIJING 14th 500m 30th 1000m | 17th 500m 5th 1000m | HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m | |||||
2022–23 | HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m 5th 500m 7th 1000m overall | HAMAR 4th 500m 4th 1000m 500m 4th 1000m 4th overall | 47th 500m 41st 1000m |
| Season | 500 meter | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015 | 6th(b) | 6th(b) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | 14th | 12th | 4th | 16th | 14th | | 5th | 7th | | 4th | 8th | 8th | |||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | | 16th | 4th | 20th | 15th | 10th | 11th | | | 4th | |||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | | 4th | 4th | 12th | 9th | 6th | | – | – | 5th | 6th | ||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | 12th | 4th | 15th | 4th | 4th | 10th | DNS | 4th | – | – | – | ||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | 5th | 8th | 14th | 15th | 9th | DQ | 9th | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | DNF | 2nd(b) | 7th | – | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | 8th | 7th | 8th | 16th | 11th | 9th | – | – | 7th | – | |||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | – | – | 9th(b) | – | – | – | |||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1000 meter | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015 | 12th | 4th | 10th | 12th | – | – | – | |
| 2015–2016 | 7th | 6th | | 7th | 5th | – | | |
| 2016–2017 | 5th | 18th | DNS | 4th | | | 11th | |
| 2017–2018 | | | | 4th | – | – | | |
| 2018–2019 | 5th | | | – | | | ||
| 2019–2020 | 5th | | | 8th | | |||
| 2020–2021 | | | ||||||
| 2021–2022 | 7th | | 5th | – | 5th | |||
| 2022–2023 | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | ||
| Season | 1500 meter | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015 | – | – | 2nd(b) | – | – | – | |
| 2015–2016 | |||||||
| 2016–2017 | |||||||
| 2017–2018 | |||||||
| 2018–2019 | |||||||
| 2019–2020 | |||||||
| 2020–2021 | |||||||
| 2021–2022 | |||||||
| 2022–2023 | |||||||
| Season | Team sprint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015 | |||||
| 2015–2016 | |||||
| 2016–2017 | |||||
| 2017–2018 | |||||
| 2018–2019 | |||||
| 2019–2020 | | – | | – | |
| 2020–2021 | |||||
| 2021–2022 | |||||
| 2022–2023 | |||||
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