| Jan Blokhuijsen | |
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| Birth Date: | 1 April 1989 |
| Birth Place: | Zuid-Scharwoude, Netherlands |
| Height: | 1.84 m |
| Weight: | 81 kg |
| Turnedpro: | 2007 |
| Show-Medals: | no |
Jan Blokhuijsen (pronounced as /nl/; born 1 April 1989) is an Olympic award-winning Dutch long-track speed skater who until 2013 skated for the commercial TVM team.[1]
He currently holds the world record in the team pursuit discipline, along with teammates Sven Kramer and Koen Verweij. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won a silver medal in the Men's 5000 m competition. At the 2014 European allround championships in Hamar, Blokhuijsen won his first European title. [2]
In 2007, he got his VWO degree at school. After a successful period in skating and inline skating (in which he won several Dutch and European titles at the junior categories and a second place at the world championships in Korea) he decided to focus only on speedskating. In February 2008, he won the Dutch Allround Speed Skating Championships junior title at the ice rink of Groningen. Later in the same month, he became world champion at the junior world championships speedskating, where he finished in front of his teammates Koen Verweij and Berden de Vries. Together with them he also won the world title at the team pursuit.
After the team pursuit event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Blokhuijsen made a comment during a press conference to the host South Koreans to "treat dogs better in this country", criticizing dog meat consumption in the host nation.[3] Many South Koreans perceived his comment was disrespectful, claiming it was racist and ignorant of Korean culture and the declining dog meat custom in the country.[4] [5] [6] [7] He later gave an apology for this comment on Twitter, which he deleted later.
As of 10 March 2020, Blokhuijsen is in 11th position in the adelskalender with a score of 146.253 points.[8] Between 13 February 2011 and 11 October 2013 he held a personal best 6th place.[9]
| Event | Time | Date | Location | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2013 | World record until 16 November 2013 | |||
| 16 November 2013 | World record until 15 February 2020 |
* together with Sven Kramer and Koen Verweij
Season | Dutch Championships Single Distances | Dutch Championships Allround | European Championships Allround | World Championships Allround | World Championships Single Distances | Olympic Games | World Cup GWC | World Championships Junior Allround | ||||||||
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2006–07 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||
2007–08 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||||
2008–09 | 14th 1500m 19th 5000m | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||
2009–10 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 10th 5000/10000m Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | ||||||||||||
2010–11 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 16th 5000/10000m 8th Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||||||
2011–12 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 6th 5000/10000m Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | ||||||||||||
2012–13 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 5th 5000/10000m Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||||||
2013–14 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 32nd 1500m 5th 5000/10000m Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | ||||||||||||
2014–15 | 500m 11th 5000m 16th 1500m DNQ 10000m NC overall(9th) | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||
2015–16 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 24th 1500m Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||||||
2016–17 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 40th 1500m 25th 5000m Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||||||
2017–18 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 17th 5000m 7th Team pursuit | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | ||||||||||
| 2018–19 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | ||||||||
2019–20 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 47th 5000m | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | |||||||||||
2020–21 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | ||||||||||
2021–22 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE |
| Season | 1500 meter | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | – | – | 2nd(b) | – | – | ||
| – | – | 5th(b) | – | – | – | ||
| Season | 5000/10000 meter | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 1st(b) | –* | 1st(b) | –* | 4th | ||
| – | – | –* | 4th –* | 8th | |||
| 8th | 5th | –* | –* | 4th | |||
| 7th* | 7th | –* | 5th | ||||
| 6th | 12th | –* | – | ||||
| – | – | 1st(b) | –* | – | – | ||
| 4th | – | 7th | – | – | – | ||
| – | 11th(b) | – | – | – | – | ||
| Season | Team pursuit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | 4th | |||||
| – | – | DQ | ||||
| – | ||||||
| – | ||||||
| DNF | ||||||
| – | – | DQ | – | |||
| 10th | – | – | ||||
– = Did not participate
(b) = Division B
DNF = Did not finish
DQ = Disqualified
| Championship | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 12 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 13 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 7 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 20 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 1 | 0 |