- Tonny de Jong
Tonny de Jong (born
July 17 ,1974 inScharsterbrug , theNetherlands ) is a formerspeed skater who was raised inHeerenveen and now lives inCalgary with Canadian speed skaterMark Knoll , whom she married in 2003.She won three Dutch Allround Championships and numerous gold medals on the 3,000 m and the 5,000 m at the Dutch Single Distance Championships. In 1997 and 1999 she became European Allround Champion. De Jong was the first skater who mastered the
clap skate .After the
2002 Winter Olympics , where she had little success, she ended her speed skating career.She posed nude for the Dutch edition of
Playboy in March 2002.Medals
An overview of medals won by De Jong at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:
Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the last column ("WR") lists the official world records on the dates that De Jong skated her personal records.
De Jong has an
Adelskalender score of 160.231. Her highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a 3rd place.External links
* [http://www.fotos.desg.de/athletes.php?showAthletes=all&id=372 Photos of Tonny de Jong]
* [http://www.skateresults.com/skater/show/192 Tonny de Jong at SkateResults.com]
* [http://www.sskating.com/index.php?name=DE_JONG&fname=Tonny&nat=NED&lm=l Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database]
* [http://web.telia.com/~u46130641/adel.htm The Adelskalender pages maintained by Evert Stenlund]
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