Gretha Smit

Gretha Smit

Smit (w. silver medal Olympic Games 2002)
Personal information
Born	20 January 1976[1] Rouveen, Netherlands[1]
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 5 ^1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Medal record Women's Speed Skating Competitor for the  Netherlands Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City 5000 metres World Championships 2004 Seoul 3000 metres 2004 Seoul 5000 metres 2003 Berlin 3000 metres 2003 Berlin 5000 metres Dutch Marathon Championships 1995 Ermerzand Natural Ice 2000 Artificial Ice 2001 Artificial Ice 2002 Artificial Ice 2004 Artificial Ice

Grietje "Greta" Smit^[1] (born 20 January 1976) is a Dutch former speed skater.

Smit won a surprising silver medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 5000 meter event. She skated a world record broken in a later pair by Claudia Pechstein. Prior to that season, she had not competed in long track speed skating competitions for several years, and had only taken up practice again shortly before the Dutch trials in late 2001.

However, she had been a very successful marathon skater in the years before 2002. She had become Dutch marathon skating champion on natural ice in 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2001, and on artificial ice in 1999, 2000 and 2001. During the last held Elfstedentocht in 1997 she finished second. She also won the alternative Elfstedentocht - skated in Finland - in 1998, 2000 and 2001.

Smit's two sisters, Jenita and Marianne, were also good (marathon) skaters; Jenita also took up long track skating in the 2002/2003 season.

Personal records

Personal records[2]
Women's speed skating
Event	Result	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	42:18	7 February 2004	Vikingskipet, Hamar
1000 m	1:28.94	26 February 2004	Deventer
1500 m	2:02.02	8 February 2004	Hamar
3000 m	4:03.80	4 March 2007	Olympic Oval, Calgary
5000 m	6:49.22	23 February 2002	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City

References

1. "Gretha Smit". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
2. "Gretha Smit". www.speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 20 November 2015.

External links

• Official website (in Dutch)