Mark Tuitert

Mark Tuitert
nation	Netherlands
birthday	April 4, 1980
place of birth	Holten
Career
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 0 × 3 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2006 Turin Team tracking gold 2010 Vancouver 1500 m bronze 2010 Vancouver Team tracking  Individual distance world championships silver 2004 Seoul 1500 m gold 2005 Inzell Team tracking silver 2005 Inzell 1500 m  All-around European Championships bronze 2003 Heerenveen All-around gold 2004 Heerenveen All-around
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup 2000/01  World Cup victories 5  Total toilet 1000 2. ( 2009/10 )  Total toilet 1500 1. ( 2003/04 , 2004/05 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1000 meters 0 2 3  1500 meters 5 6th 8th  Team competition 0 0 1
last change: April 8, 2013

Mark Jan Hendrik Tuitert (born April 4, 1980 in Holten ) is a Dutch speed skater .

In 2004 he became European champion at the all-around European championship . At the 2005 World Championships in Inzell , he became world champion in pursuit together with heirs Wennemars and Carl Verheijen . A year later at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin , he won the bronze medal in the pursuit. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver , he celebrated his greatest success to date with a victory over 1500 meters in 1: 45.57 with a lead of 53 hundredths over Shani Davis and 56 hundredths over Havard Bökko.

In 2010, he was voted Sportsman of the Year in the Netherlands .

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	35.43 sec	March 7, 2009	Salt Lake City
1000 m	1: 07.84 min	December 6, 2009	Calgary
1500 m	1: 42.87 min	November 16, 2007	Calgary
3000 m	3: 41.16 min	August 12, 2005	Calgary
5000 m	6: 27.63 min	January 9, 2004	Heerenveen
10,000 m	13: 38.91 min	January 11, 2004	Heerenveen

Web links

• Photos by Mark Tuitert at DESGphoto
• Mark Tuitert's stats at Speedskatingnews