Jeroen Straathof

Jeroen Straathof

To person
Full name	Johannes Nicolaas Maria Straathof
Date of birth	November 18, 1972
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Track cycling, paracycling
To the team
Current team	End of career
function	driver
Most important successes
Summer Paralympics 2000 - tandem race (single pursuit) (as a pilot of Jan Mulder)
Last updated: November 11, 2014

Jeroen Straathof
nation	Netherlands
birthday	November 18, 1972
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
last change: November 11, 2014

Johannes Nicolaas Maria "Jeroen" Straathof (born November 18, 1972 in Zoeterwoude ) is a former Dutch track cyclist , speed skater and paracycling pilot . He is the only athlete to date to have participated in the Summer Olympics , Winter Games and Paralympic Games .

In 1992 Jeroen Straathof became junior world champion in speed skating all-around. In the following years he established himself among the world's best. From 1993 to 1999 he competed in the Speed ​​Skating World Cup , won two runs, was second five times and third four times. He started at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , where he finished ninth on his special route, the 1500 meters. In 1996 he won the world championship over 1500 meters, but two years later he could not qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . He fell during the qualifying runs for the 2002 Games .

In 1996 Straathof accompanied his girlfriend Evelyn van Leeuwen, a former speed skater who has been paraplegic after falling on the ice rink and who played in the Dutch wheelchair basketball team, to the Summer Paralympics in Atlanta . There he met the visually impaired cyclist Jan Mulder , with whom he then competed in tandem races as his pilot. In 1998 the two athletes jointly became vice world champions, 1999 European champions, and at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney they won the gold medal in the singles pursuit .

Outside of disabled sports, Jeroen Straathof was also increasingly active in track cycling . At the UCI Rail World Championships in 2004 he finished fourth with the Dutch four-man from Straathof, Levi Heimans , Jens Mouris and Peter Schep , and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , the team was fifth in the same line-up.

Then Straathof ended his sporting career. To this day he is a member of the athletes' commission of the Dutch National Olympic Committee , of which he was chairman from 2010 to 2014 (as of 2014). Professionally, he initially worked for the Right To Play Foundation , then for the consulting firm BMC and now works for the Dutch sports organization Sportkracht12 (as of 2014). He is married to the doctor Evelyn van Leeuwen; the couple lives in Leiden and has three daughters.

Web links

• Jeroen Straathof in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Results from Jeroen Straathof. Speed ​​skating news, accessed on November 11, 2014 . 
• 'Ik sta op de wereld om gelukkig dood te gaan' (Interview with Jeroen Straathof). Trouw, January 20, 2001, accessed November 12, 2014 (Dutch). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leden en overleg. (No longer available online.) Nocnsf.nl, archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; Retrieved November 11, 2014 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Nieuwe accountmanager Sportkracht12. Sportkracht12, March 20, 2013, accessed November 11, 2014 (Dutch). 
3. ^ De Cupid-Ketting. (No longer available online.) February 7, 2011, p. 29 , archived from the original on November 12, 2014 ; Retrieved November 12, 2014 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.