Auke Adema Explained

Auke Adema (4 October 1907 – 31 March 1976) was a Dutch skater. He won the Elfstedentocht, the world's largest speed skating competition twice. In the sixth race in 1940 he controversially shared the victory with,, and . In Dokkum they had made a conspiracy to cross the finish line together. This became known as the Pact of Dokkum. The practice of non competitive finishing was outlawed after this.^[1] Adema won the seventh Elfstedentocht by himself on 6 February 1941 in a time of 9 hours 19 minutes, a race record. In the race he broke away from the pack with two others to have an early lead. However, when stopping to eat a sausage^[2] with Joop Bosman at Workum, other skaters managed to get ahead, but Adema overtook and won by three minutes over Bosman.^[3]

External links

• film of the 1941 race
• Elfstedentocht 1941 (Harlingen)
• Geschiedenis24 Image
• Web site: Elfstedentocht in Oorlogstijd Expositie Fries Museum. 12 December 2008.

Notes and References

1. Web site: De Elfstedentocht "de Toch der Tochten" De Elfstedentocht van 1940 . 9 February 2012 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120208045456/http://www.spanvis.nl/Elfstedentocht/index9.htm . 8 February 2012 .
2. Web site: De Elfstedentocht "de Toch der Tochten" De Elfstedentocht van 1941 . 9 February 2012 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120208045330/http://www.spanvis.nl/Elfstedentocht/index10.htm . 8 February 2012 .
3. Web site: Auke Adema wint Elfstedentocht 1941. 9 February 2012.