Rintje Ritsma

Rintje Ritsma
Full name	Robert Rintje Ritsma
nation	Netherlands
birthday	April 13, 1970
place of birth	Lemmer
size	1.90 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × 2 × 4 × M-World Championship medals 4 × 2 × 3 × E-World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 1 × M-EM medals 6 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver Lillehammer 1994 1500 m bronze Lillehammer 1994 5000 m bronze Nagano 1998 1500 m silver Nagano 1998 5000 m bronze Nagano 1998 10,000 m bronze Turin 2006 team  All around world championships bronze Hamar 1993 All-around bronze Gothenburg 1994 All-around gold Baselga di Pinè 1995 All-around gold Inzell 1996 All-around silver Heerenveen 1998 All-around gold Hamar 1999 All-around bronze Milwaukee 2000 All-around gold Budapest 2001 All-around silver Gothenburg 2003 All-around  Individual distance world championships gold Warsaw 1997 1500 m gold Warsaw 1997 5000 m silver Warsaw 1997 10,000 m silver Calgary 1998 5000 m bronze Heerenveen 1999 1500 m  All-around European Championships bronze Heerenveen 1992 All-around bronze Heerenveen 1993 All-around gold Hamar 1994 All-around gold Heerenveen 1995 All-around gold Heerenveen 1996 All-around silver Heerenveen 1997 All-around gold Helsinki 1998 All-around gold Heerenveen 1999 All-around gold Hamar 2000 All-around silver Heerenveen 2003 All-around

Robert Rintje Ritsma (born April 13, 1970 in Lemmer ) is a former Dutch speed skater . With four titles in the all- around world championships , he is one of the most successful speed skaters in history.

Career

Ritsma won his first title at the all- around world championships in Baselga di Pinè in 1995 . He defended him in 1996 in Inzell. Further titles followed in 1999 in Hamar and 2001 in Budapest . In 1998 and 2003 he won the silver medal and the bronze medal in 1993, 1994 and 2000.

At the 1997 World Single Distance Championship, Ritsma won gold over 1,500 and 5,000 meters and silver over 10,000 meters.

In addition, Ritsma was six times all- around European champion (1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000).

At the Olympic Games , however, he could not win any titles, but two silver medals and four bronze medals.

In 1999 , Ritsma received the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy . He ended his career in September 2008.

Ritsma led the nobility calendar for 1125 days.

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	35.90 s	February 20, 1999	Hamar
1000 m	1: 10.19 min	February 20, 1999	Hamar
1500 m	1: 45.86 min	February 19, 2002	Hamar
3000 m	3: 49.29 min	March 11, 2004	Heerenveen
5000 m	6: 20.26 min	November 19, 2005	Salt Lake City
10,000 m	13: 28.19 min	February 17, 1998	Hamar

Web links

• Statistics at speed skating news
• Rintje Ritsma in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Photos by Rintje Ritsma at desdgphoto
• Information about Rintje Ritsma on olympiaclub.de (German)