Welcome to SpeedSkatingBase
Since 1967 I've been keeping track of skaters Personal Best within the speed skating sport. Now I've taken the step to publish my collection to the internet. Updates are published regularly, and the last update is shown below.
Latest update on January 23 2012:
Updated on 23 Jan 2012
Special thanks to Frans van Bakel, Paul Schlösser, Vincent van Lierop for the information I got from them! Without their help this database would not exist.
A quick summary of the sources of information used:
- Preben G Petersen (WSSA) provided lots of data.
- The early years the books from Jan Kleine “Schaatsjaarboek” (untill 1973), papers and a lot of books in Dutch about speedskating
- WSSSA books a lot of the them, editor Trond Eng from Askim (Norge)
- Schaatsseizoen, publication from “Stichting Schaatsseizoen” editor(s) Hedman Bijlsma and friends it’s published every year
- And from the internet, shown as links on the home page and a lot of more internet adresses
- Yahoo groups about (speed)skating
- Jakub Majerski and his website www.sskating.com
- Jeroen Heijmans, for the possibility to use his links on the results in competitions www.skateresults.com
- Frans van Bakel (Dutch Adelskalenderen for Men and Women)
- Others which I may have forgotten...