Tonny de Jong

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Tonny de Jong (Scharsterbrug, juli 17, 1974) is a former Dutch skater, who was raised Heerenveen and lives in Calgary with Canadian speed skater Mark Knoll, who she married in 2003, now.

She won 4 Dutch allround championships and numerous gold medals at the 3,000m and the 5,000m at the Dutch Single Distance Championships. In 1997 and 1999 she became European allround champion. De Jong was the first skater who mastered the clap skate.

After the 2002 Winter Olympics where she had little succes, she quit professional skating.

She posed nude for the Dutch edition of Playboy in March 2002.