Bart Veldkamp
Bart Veldkamp
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| Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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22 November 1967 The Hague, Netherlands |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |
 Netherlands (1989–1995) Belgium (1995–2006) |
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| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turned pro | 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Ad Krook Hans Veldkamp |
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| Retired | 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 500 m: 37.55 (2000) 1000 m: 1:12.80 (2005) 1500 m: 1:49.00 (2001) 3000 m: 3:47.56 2006) 5000 m: 6:23.64 (2001) 10 000 m: 13:27.48 (2002) |
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Medal record
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Bart Veldkamp (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɑrt ˈfɛltkɑmp]; born 22 November 1967) is a retired speed skater, who represented the Netherlands and later Belgium in international competitions, including the Winter Olympics. He currently is the national speed skating coach of Belgium.
In 1990, Bart Veldkamp won the European Allround Championships and came very close to repeating that feat 11 years later in 2001, finishing 2nd. At the 1992 Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal on the 10,000 m. Mainly due to this achievement, Veldkamp was named Dutch Sportsman of the Year in 1992. Before the 1994 Winter Olympics, he was dissatisfied with the qualifying procedures for tournaments and became a Belgian. In Belgium there was (and still is) no speed skating tradition, so qualifying for tournaments became easy because there were no other speed skaters to compete with.
In Lillehammer at the 1994 Winter Olympics, Veldkamp won a bronze medal on the 10,000 m for the Netherlands. The next Olympic medal he won was as a Belgian at the 1998 Winter Olympics on the 5,000 m, in which he became the first skater ever to break the 6:30 barrier on that distance, but his time was beaten later that same day by former compatriots Rintje Ritsma and Gianni Romme. His bronze medal was the first ever Olympic medal in speed skating for Belgium.
In 1997, Veldkamp participated in the . In 2003, he announced that the 2006 Winter Olympics at Turin would be his third Winter Olympics as a Belgian, his fifth overall, and definitely his last. At these 2006 Winter Olympics, Veldkamp finished 13th on the 5,000 m and 14th on the 10,000 m and ended his career afterwards.
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