Jorrit Bergsma

Jorrit Bergsma
nation	Netherlands
birthday	1st February 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Aldeboarn , Netherlands
Career
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 5 × 6 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Sochi 2014 10,000 m bronze Sochi 2014 5,000 m silver Pyeongchang 2018 10,000 m  Individual distance world championships silver 2012 Heerenveen 10,000 m gold 2013 Sochi 10,000 m silver 2013 Sochi 5,000 m gold 2015 Heerenveen 10,000 m silver 2015 Heerenveen 5,000 m silver 2016 Kolomna 5,000 m gold 2017 Gangwon Team tracking silver 2017 Gangwon 5,000 m silver 2017 Gangwon 10,000 m gold 2019 Inzell 10,000 m gold 2020 Salt Lake City Mass start
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 14, 2010  World Cup victories 23 (including 17 individual victories)  Grand toilet 2. ( 2016/17 )  Total toilet 5000/10000 1. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2016/17 )  Total toilet mass start 2. ( 2011/12 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  5000 meters 9 12 4th  10,000 meters 3 2 2  Team competition 6th 0 0  Mass start 5 5 0
last change: February 19, 2020

Jorrit Bergsma (born February 1, 1986 in Aldeboarn ) is a Dutch speed skater who specializes in long distances.

Career

Bergsma started ice skating at the age of seven . Bergsma made his debut in the World Cup at the beginning of the 2010/11 season in Heerenveen and finished ninth over 5,000 m. At the third World Cup of the season in Hamar , he achieved his first podium finish with third place over 10,000 m. At the beginning of the following season he won his first World Cup victory in Chelyabinsk over 5,000 m. In the further course of the season he won over 10,000 m in Heerenveen and in Berlin in the mass start. Furthermore, he reached second place once over 5,000 m and once over 10,000 m. In his first individual distance World Championship participation in Heerenveen in 2012 , he made it onto the podium. Over the 10,000 meter course, he finished second behind his compatriot Bob de Jong, just under 4 seconds behind . He finished the season in third place in the overall world cup over 5,000 / 10,000 m and second in the mass start world cup. In the 2012/13 season he came on the podium ten times in the World Cup. He won twice in the team pursuit, once in the mass start and once over 10,000 m. At the individual distance World Championships 2013 in Sochi Bergsma surprised the multiple world champion Sven Kramer over the 10,000 meter distance and won his first world championship gold medal. Bergsma also won the silver medal over 5,000 m, this time just beaten by Sven Kramer. At the end of the season, he won the overall classification over the 5,000 / 10,000 meter distances for the first time and was fifth in the mass start World Cup. At the beginning of the following season he finished second in the 5,000 m World Cup in Calgary and third in Salt Lake City . In the further course of the season he won four World Cup victories, one of them in the team pursuit and three over 5000 m and thus won the overall ranking over the 5,000 / 10,000 meter distances as in the previous year. In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014, he became Olympic champion over 10,000 m. He also won bronze over 5,000 m.

In the 2014/15 season Bergsma achieved three victories and one second place in the World Cup over 5,000 m. In the mass start he won once and came second once. At the individual distance world championships in 2015 in Heerenveen , he won the silver medal over 5,000 m and the gold medal over 10,000 m. At the end of the season he reached fifth place in the Grand Overall World Cup and fourth place in the Mass Start World Cup. He won the overall World Cup over 5,000 / 10,000 m for the third time in a row. At the beginning of the following season he finished second in the World Cup in Calgary over 5,000 m and in the mass start. In the further course of the season he achieved four second places and one third place. He also won two World Cups and at the end of the season he finished fifth in the overall World Cup, fourth in the mass start World Cup and second in the overall World Cup over 5,000 / 10,000 m. At the 2016 World Individual Distance Championships in Kolomna , he won the silver medal over 5,000 m and took 21st place in the mass start.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , Bergsma won silver in the 10,000 m and exceeded his previous best time in this discipline.

Bergsma was the Dutch champion over 5,000 m in 2012. In 2013, 2015 and 2018 he won the Dutch championships over 10,000 m.

Personal bests

• 500 m: 38.25 sec. (installed on December 27, 2014 in Heerenveen)
• 1,000 m: 1:14:30 min. (installed on December 20, 2014 in Heerenveen)
• 1,500 m: 1: 47.08 min. (installed on November 2, 2013 in Calgary)
• 3,000 m: 3: 39.79 min. (installed on November 3, 2013 in Calgary)
• 5,000 m: 6: 06.93 min. (installed on November 10, 2013 in Calgary)
• 10,000 m: 12: 41.98 min. (installed on February 15, 2018 in Gangneung)

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2014 Sochi : 1st place 10,000 m, 3rd place 5,000 m
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 2nd place 10,000 m

Individual distance world championships

• 2012 Heerenveen : 2nd place 10,000 m
• 2013 Sochi : 1st place 10,000 m, 2nd place 5,000 m
• 2015 Heerenveen : 1st place 10,000 m, 2nd place 5,000 m, 19th place mass start
• 2016 Kolomna : 2nd place 5,000 m, 21st place mass start
• 2017 Gangwon : 1st place team pursuit, 2nd place 10,000 m, 2nd place 5,000 m, 14th place mass start
• 2019 Inzell : 1st place 10,000 m, 12th place 5,000 m
• 2020 Salt Lake City : 1st place mass start, 4th place 10,000 m, 8th place 5,000 m

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	November 19, 2011	Chelyabinsk	5,000 m
2.	December 3, 2011	Heerenveen	10,000 m
3.	March 1, 2012	Berlin	Mass start
4th	November 25, 2012	Kolomna	Mass start
5.	December 2, 2012	Astana	10,000 m
6th	December 8, 2013	Berlin	5,000 m
7th	March 7, 2014	Inzell	5,000 m
8th.	March 16, 2014	Heerenveen	5,000 m
9.	December 6, 2014	Berlin	5,000 m
10.	December 14, 2014	Heerenveen	Mass start
11.	January 31, 2015	Hamar	5,000 m
12.	March 21, 2015	Erfurt	5,000 m
13.	5th December 2015	Inzell	5,000 m
14th	20th November 2016	Nagano	Mass start
15th	December 11, 2016	Heerenveen	10,000 m
16.	March 11, 2017	Stavanger	5,000 m
17th	16th November 2019	Minsk	Mass start

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 1, 2012	Astana	Team tracking 1
2.	March 2, 2013	Erfurt	Team tracking 2
3.	December 7, 2013	Berlin	Team tracking 3
4th	December 11, 2015	Heerenveen	Team tracking 4
5.	19th November 2016	Nagano	Team tracking 5
6th	March 11, 2017	Stavanger	Team tracking 6

¹With Jan Blokhuijsen and Koen Verweij .

²With Sven Kramer and Koen Verweij.

³With Douwe de Vries and Jan Blokhuijsen.

^4th With Sven Kramer and Jan Blokhuijsen.

⁵ With Douwe de Vries and Sven Kramer.

^6thWith Douwe de Vries and Evert Hoolwerf .

Web links

• Profile at Speedskatingnews
• Jorrit Bergsma in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photos by Jorrit Bergsma at DESGphoto

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bergsma surprised Kramer nwzonline.de, accessed on April 10, 2013
2. ↑ Athlete Profile - Jorrit BERGSMA , pyeongchang2018.com (English)