Kees Verkerk

Kees Verkerk
Full name	Cornelis Arie Verkerk
nation	Netherlands
birthday	October 28, 1942
place of birth	Maasdam
size	1.71 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 3 × 0 × M-World Championship medals 2 × 0 × 3 × M-EM medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Innsbruck 1964 1500 m gold Grenoble 1968 1500 m silver Grenoble 1968 5000 m silver Sapporo 1972 10,000 m  All around world championships gold Gothenburg 1966 All-around gold Oslo 1967 All-around bronze Deventer 1969 All-around bronze Oslo 1970 All-around bronze Gothenburg 1971 All-around  All-around European Championships silver Deventer 1966 All-around gold Lahti 1967 All-around silver Inzell 1969 All-around bronze Heerenveen 1971 All-around

Cornelis Arie "Kees" Verkerk (born October 28, 1942 in Maasdam ) is a former Dutch speed skater .

Career

Kees Verkerk was all-around world champion in Gothenburg in 1966 and in Oslo in 1967 . From 1969 to 1971 he won the bronze medal at the world championships . In 1967 he was also European champion in Oslo .

Verkerk won the silver medal over 1500 meters at the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck . Four years later he was Olympic champion and second over 5000 meters in Grenoble over this distance. In Sapporo , at the end of his Olympic career in 1972, he again won silver over 10,000 meters.

Together with his compatriot Ard Schenk , he founded a professional league in 1973, but it only lasted two years.

Verkerk set eight world records during his playing days . He led the nobility calendar between 1967 and 1971 for 1444 days. Its high was 168.033 points.

He was awarded the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy twice.

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	39.9 sec	15th January 1971	Davos
1000 m	1: 21.4 min	19th January 1971	Davos
1500 m	1: 58.9 min	16th January 1971	Davos
3000 m	4: 14.9 min	March 2nd 1972	Inzell
5000 m	7: 13.2 min-1	March 1, 1969	Inzell
10,000 m	15: 03.6 min-1	January 26, 1969	Inzell

¹ = world record at the time of the run

Web links

Commons : Kees Verkerk  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Statistics at speed skating news
• Kees Verkerk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Ron Kroon : Kees Verkerk at the EM 1967