Tonny de Jong (born July 17, 1974 in Scharsterbrug, the Netherlands) is a former speed skater who was raised in Heerenveen and now lives in Calgary with Canadian speed skater Mark 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:
| Championships | Gold medal | Silver medal | Bronze medal |
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| Winter Olympics | |||
| World Allround | 1997 1999 |
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| World Sprint | |||
| World Single Distance | 1999 (3,000 m) | 1999 (1,500 m) 1999 (5,000 m) 2000 (5,000 m) |
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| World Cup | 1997 (3,000 / 5,000 m) | 1997 (1,500 m) | 1999 (1,500 m) |
| European Allround | 1997 1999 |
1995 | |
| Dutch Allround | 1997 1998 2001 |
1995 1996 2000 |
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| Dutch Sprint | 1999 | ||
| Dutch Single Distance | 1996 (3,000 m) 1996 (5,000 m) 1997 (3,000 m) 1998 (3,000 m) 2001 (1,500 m) 2001 (3,000 m) 2001 (5,000 m) |
1993 (1,500 m) 1993 (5,000 m) 1994 (1,500 m) 1994 (5,000 m) 1997 (5,000 m) 1998 (1,000 m) 1998 (1,500 m) 2000 (1,000 m) 2000 (3,000 m) |
1997 (1,500 m) 2000 (1,500 m) |
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.
| Distance | Time | Date | Venue | WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 m | 39.36 | 27 January 2002 | Calgary | 37.22 |
| 1,000 m | 1:16.23 | 21 February 1999 | Calgary | 1:14.96 |
| 1,500 m | 1:56.02 | 20 February 2002 | Salt Lake City | 1:54.38 |
| 3,000 m | 4:00.49 | 10 February 2002 | Salt Lake City | 3:59.26 |
| 5,000 m | 7:01.17 | 23 February 2002 | Salt Lake City | 6:52.44 |
| Small combination | 163.497 | 10 January 1999 | Heerenveen | 163.020 |
De Jong has an Adelskalender score of 160.231. Her highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a 3rd place.
External links
- Photos of Tonny de Jong
- Tonny de Jong at SkateResults.com
- Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
- The Adelskalender pages maintained by Evert Stenlund
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Ingrid Haringa |
Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1997 |
Succeeded by Marianne Timmer |
