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Margot Boer

Margot Boer
Margot Boer (2009-01-04).jpg
Boer in 2009
Personal information
Born (1985-08-07) 7 August 1985 (age 31)
Woubrugge, Netherlands
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 70 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country Netherlands
Sport Speed skating
Turned pro 2006
Retired 2016
Medal record
Women's speed skating
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sochi 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sochi 1000 m
World Single Distance Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Vancouver 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Heerenveen 1000 m
World Sprint Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Heerenveen Sprint
Dutch Single Distance Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Assen 500 m
Gold medal – first place 2011 Heerenveen 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2008 Heerenveen 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2009 Heerenveen 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2010 Heerenveen 500 m
Silver medal – second place 2010 Heerenveen 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Heerenveen 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2012 Heerenveen 500 m
Dutch Sprint Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Groningen Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2011 Heerenveen Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2012 Heerenveen Sprint
Gold medal – first place 2014 Amsterdam Sprint
Silver medal – second place 2010 Heerenveen Sprint
Silver medal – second place 2013 Groningen Sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Groningen Sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Heerenveen Sprint
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Heerenveen Sprint

Margot Madelaine Boer (born 7 August 1985) is a Dutch former speed skater. She is specialised in the 500, 1000 and 1500 m.

After spending a few years at local teams in the South Holland area, Boer was seen as one of the Netherlands main future talents and was offered a contract at the KNSB youth development team for the 2006–07 season. In the years before she already participated in several World Cup meetings.

Her first success in her new team was winning a gold medal on the 500 m at the 2007 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships. She won the both races beating all the opponents, including favourites such as Marianne Timmer and Annette Gerritsen.

Boer qualified to participate in all of her specialty distances at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She just missed out on medals in each of them, coming in 4th on both the 500 and 1500 m and 6th on the 1000 m, 0.22, 0.14, and 0.22 seconds from winning a bronze medal, respectively.

On 11 February 2014, Boer won the bronze medal in the women's 500 m longtrack speedskating event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. This is the first medal at the Olympic women's 500 m longtrack speedskating event for the Netherlands. Two days later on 13 February 2014 Boer also won the bronze medal in the women's longtrack 1000 m event, making her the nation's first female skater to win Olympic medals on both sprint distances.


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