Sjinkie Knegt

Sjinkie Knegt
nation	Netherlands
birthday	5th July 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Bantega , Netherlands
Career
society	Shorttrack Club Thialf
National squad	since 2004
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 6 × 5 × 3 × EM medals 12 × 6 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2014 Sochi 1000 m silver 2018 Pyeongchang 1500 m  Short track world championships silver 2012 Shanghai 5000 m relay silver 2013 Debrecen 1000 m bronze 2013 Debrecen 5000 m relay gold 2014 Montreal 5000 m relay silver 2014 Montreal 1000 m gold 2015 Moscow All-around gold 2015 Moscow 3000 m silver 2015 Moscow 1500 m bronze 2015 Moscow 5000 m relay gold 2017 Rotterdam 500 m gold 2017 Rotterdam 3000 m gold 2017 Rotterdam 5000 m relay silver 2017 Rotterdam All-around bronze 2018 Montreal 1500 m  European Short Track Championships silver 2009 Turin 5000m relay gold 2011 Heerenveen 5000m relay silver 2011 Heerenveen All-around gold 2012 Mladá Boleslav 5000m relay gold 2012 Mladá Boleslav All-around silver 2013 Malmö All-around silver 2013 Malmö 5000m relay silver 2014 Dresden 5000m relay gold 2015 Dordrecht All-around bronze 2015 Dordrecht 5000m relay gold 2016 Sochi 5000m relay gold 2017 Turin 5000m relay gold 2017 Turin 500 m bronze 2017 Turin All-around gold 2018 Dresden 5000m relay gold 2018 Dresden All-around gold 2018 Dresden 500 m gold 2018 Dresden 1000 m gold 2018 Dresden 1500 m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup October 19, 2007  World Cup victories 13 (including 6 individual wins)  500 m world cup 6. ( 2014/15 )  1000 m world cup 2. ( 2014/15 )  1500 m world cup 1. ( 2016/17 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 0 4th 2  1000 meters 1 6th 3  1500 meters 5 5 6th  Relay / team 7th 15th 4th
last change: February 16, 2020

Sjinkie Knegt (born July 5, 1989 in Bantega ) is a Dutch short tracker .

Career

As a C-Junior Knegt was third in the Dutch championship of his age group in 2004. He also achieved some good results and victories in other lower-class races in the 2004/05 season, including the 2005 national C-Junior Champion . After he was promoted to the B-Junior squad in the 2005/06 season, he also achieved decent results in his few international starts, and he was second in the Dutch championship. Knegt also triumphed in the B-Junior class at the national championship in The Hague , so that a year later he was even nominated for the Short Track World Cup as A-Junior . There he reached the semi-finals as the best result in the relay, on the individual routes he was eliminated early in the heats. He also started at the Junior World Championships in Bolzano , but he could not repeat his good times and finished twenty-fifth overall, with the relay he failed in the quarterfinals.

Knegt started the World Cup 2008/09 very well, among other things, his best result was a tenth place over 1000 meters at the fourth World Cup in Nagano . In the season, the best placement achieved seventh place. At the European Championships in Turin in 2009 , he won silver with the relay over 5000 m. In March 2009 he was seventh over 1000 m at the World Championships in Vienna . In the following season he mostly achieved midfield placements in the World Cup. The tenth place over 1000 m at the World Cup in Marquette was his best placement. In January 2010 he was eighth in the all- around at the 2010 European Championships in Dresden . At his first Olympic participation in Vancouver , he finished 28th over 500m, 14th over 1500m and 11th over 1000m. His best individual placement at the subsequent World Championships in Sofia was 12th over 1500 m. In the 2010/11 season he reached his first World Cup podiums with third place in the relay over 5000 m and second place over 1000 m at the World Cup in Shanghai . At the following World Cup in Moscow , he won his first World Cup victory with the relay over 5000 m. At the 2011 European Short Track Championships in Heerenveen , he won bronze in the all-around event and gold in the 5000 m relay. At the end of the season he came at the Short Track World Championships in Sheffield on 27th place over 500 m, 25th place over 1000 m and 12th place over 1500 m. He finished the season in sixth place in the overall World Cup over 1000 m.

In the 2011/12 season , Knegt won the gold medal at the 2012 European Short Track Championships in Mladá Boleslav in the all - around event and with the 5000 m relay. At the World Cup finals in Dordrecht he came back on the podium with second place over 1000 m and first place with the relay over 5000 m and ended the season in seventh place in the overall World Cup over 1000 m. At the 2012 World Championships in Shanghai , he won silver with the relay over 5000 m. In the following season he achieved second place four times and third place over 1500 m in the World Cup with the relay. At the 2013 European Championships in Malmö , he won the silver medal in the all-around competition and with the relay. In March 2013 he won bronze with the relay and silver over 1000 m at the World Championships in Debrecen . In the 2013/14 Short Track World Cup , he won over 1500 m at the World Cup in Kolomna and third place in the relay and thus achieved fifth place in the overall World Cup over 1500 m. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , he won the bronze medal over 1000 m. At the end of the season he became world champion with the 5000 m relay at the 2014 World Cup in Montreal and achieved silver in over 1000 m.

At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , Knegt took third place over 1000 m and second place over 500 m at the World Cup in Salt Lake City . In the further course of the season he won two World Cup wins with the relay and came on the podium ten times. At the 2015 European Championships in Dordrecht , he won bronze with the relay and gold in the all-around competition. In March 2015, at the World Championships in Moscow, he won bronze with the relay, silver in the 1500 m and gold in the all-around and 3000 m. He finished the season in sixth place in the overall world cup over 500 m and second in the overall world cup over 1000 m. At the beginning of the following season he finished at the World Cup in Montreal over 1500 m and with the relay in each case the second place. At the following World Cup in Toronto , he also came second in the 1500 m. This was followed by two victories in Nagoya , each over 1500 m and with the relay, and in Shanghai , he took second place over 500 m and 1500 m. In Dresden he was third in the 1500 m and finally came second in the World Cup over 1500 m. At the 2016 European Championships in Sochi , he won the gold medal with the relay. In addition, he was fourth in the all-around event, taking first place over 500 m. In the 2017/18 season he won the World Cup four times, three times over 1500 m and once with the relay. He also came second six times and third three times, winning the world cup over 1500 m. At the European Championships in Turin in 2017 , he won the bronze medal in the all-around competition and the gold medal with the relay. In the individual races he was third over 3000 m and first over 500 m. In March 2017, at the World Championships in Rotterdam , he won the silver medal in the all- around event and gold medals over 500 m, 3000 m and the relay.

After third place over 1500 m in Budapest at the beginning of the 2017/18 season, Knegt won over 1000 m in Dordrecht and also took second place over 500 m and with the relay. This was followed by second place over 1500 m in Shanghai and second place with the relay in Seoul . Finally he reached fourth place in the world cup over 1000 m and second place in the world cup over 1500 m. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the silver medal over 1500 m and the gold medal at the 2018 European Championships in Dresden over 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m, in all- around competitions and with the relay. In March 2018, he won the bronze medal over 1000 m at the World Championships in Montreal . In the 2018/19 season he won the 1500 m in Salt Lake City and in Almaty with the relay. He was also second in Almaty over 1500 m and in Calgary third with the relay. In the mixed relay competitions he won second place in Calgary and Salt Lake City and reached seventh place in the 1500 m World Cup at the end of the season.

Personal bests

• 500 m 40.263 sec. (installed on November 2, 2018 in Calgary)
• 1000 m 1: 22.413 min. (installed on March 18, 2018 in Montreal)
• 1500 m 2: 07.943 min. (installed on November 13, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m 4: 42.464 min. (installed on January 8, 2017 in Amsterdam)

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2010 Vancouver : 11th place 1000 m, 14th place 1500 m, 28th place 500 m
• 2014 Sochi : 3rd place 1000 m, 4th place relay, 8th place 500 m, 12th place 1500 m
• 2018 Pyeongchang : 2nd place 1500 m, 16th place 1000 m

World championships

• 2009 Vienna : 7th place 1000 m, 10th place 500 m, 13th place all-around, 16th place 1500 m
• 2010 Sofia : 12th place 1500 m, 18th place all-around, 20th place 1000 m, 24th place 500 m
• 2011 Sheffield : 5th place relay, 12th place 1500 m, 22nd place all-around, 25th place 1000 m, 27th place 500 m
• 2012 Shanghai : 2nd place relay, 5th place 500 m, 6th place 3000 m superfinal, 6th place all-around, 10th place 1000 m
• 2013 Debrecen : 2nd place 1000 m, 3rd place relay, 5th place all-around, 9th place 1500 m, 15th place 500 m
• 2014 Montreal : 1st place relay, 2nd place 1000 m, 8th place all-around, 9th place 1500 m, 22nd place 500 m
• 2015 Moscow : 1st place all around, 1st place 3000 m, 2nd place 1500 m, 3rd place relay, 4th place 500 m, 10th place 1000 m
• 2017 Rotterdam : 1st place relay, 1st place 500 m, 1st place 3000 m, 2nd place all-around, 5th place 1500 m, 14th place 1000 m
• 2018 Montreal : 3rd place 1000 m, 4th place relay, 6th place 3000 m, 8th place all-around, 10th place 1500 m, 52nd place 500 m

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	5th December 2015	Nagoya	1500 m
2.	4th November 2016	Calgary	1500 m
3.	November 13, 2016	Salt Lake City	1500 m
4th	5th February 2017	Dresden	1500 m
5.	October 8, 2017	Dordrecht	1000 m
6th	November 10, 2018	Salt Lake City	1500 m

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place
1.	February 13, 2011	Moscow 1
2.	February 12, 2012	Dordrecht 1
3.	December 21, 2014	Seoul 2
4th	February 8, 2015	Dresden 3
5.	December 6, 2015	Nagoya 4
6th	February 12, 2017	Minsk 5
7th	December 9, 2018	Almaty 5

¹With Niels Kerstholt , Daan Breeuwsma and Freek van der Wart .

²With Daan Breeuwsma, Freek van der Wart and Adwin Snellink .

³With Daan Breeuwsma, Mark Prinsen and Freek van der Wart.

^4thWith Freek van der Wart, Daan Breeuwsma, and Dennis Visser .

⁵With Daan Breeuwsma, Itzhak de Laat and Dennis Visser.

Web links

• Sjinkie Knegt at ISU
• Sjinkie Knegt on The-Sports.org
• Sjinkie Knegt in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)
• Sjinkie Knegt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )