Jorrit Bergsma

Jorrit Bergsma

Jorrit Bergsma at the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1986-02-01) 1 February 1986 (age 31) Oldeboorn, Netherlands
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Spouse(s)	Heather Richardson
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Turned pro	2004
Medal record Olympic Games 2014 Sochi 10,000 m 2014 Sochi 5000 m World Single Distance Championships 2013 Sochi 10,000 m 2015 Heerenveen 10,000 m 2017 Gangneung Team pursuit 2012 Heerenveen 10,000 m 2013 Sochi 5000 m 2015 Heerenveen 5000 m 2016 Kolomna 5000 m 2017 Gangneung 5000 m 2017 Gangneung 10,000 m

Jorrit Bergsma (born 1 February 1986) is a Dutch speed skater and marathonskater. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 10,000 m.

Bergsma has been skating for the BAM team since the 2010–11 season. On 10 October 2009 he won his first skating match (the Marathon), the DSB Bank Cup. During the 2009–10 season he tried to qualify for the Olympic Games for Kazakhstan. During the national championships in the Russian Chelyabinsk Bergsma won the 5000 m in 6:28.21 and qualified for the World Cup. The ISU refused to let the Dutch Kazakh start and Bergsma decided to end his Kazakh adventure. Later in the season he won the Alternative Elfstedentocht in Austria.

Bergsma won the Dutch Marathon Championships on 10 February 2010 by beating Douwe de Vries. On 29 December 2010 he won the Ronde van Duurswold, the first edition of this classic on natural ice. In 2012 he won the Dutch Marathon Championships on natural ice for the second time.

He became the Dutch 5000 m champion at the Dutch Single Distance Championships in November 2011. At the first World Cup in Chelyabinsk he won the 5000 m in a new rink record (6:18.74)

At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Bergsma won gold in the 10,000 m with an Olympic record of 12:44.45. Bergsma also won bronze in the 5000 m.

Bergsma is married to American speed skater Heather Richardson-Bergsma.