Margot Boer

Margot Boer

Boer in 2009
Personal information
Born	7 August 1985 Woubrugge, Netherlands
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Turned pro	2006
Retired	2016
Medal record Women's speed skating Competitor for the  Netherlands Olympic Games 2014 Sochi 500 m 2014 Sochi 1000 m World Single Distance Championships 2009 Vancouver 1000 m 2012 Heerenveen 1000 m World Sprint Championships 2011 Heerenveen Sprint Dutch Single Distance Championships 2007 Assen 500 m 2011 Heerenveen 500 m 2008 Heerenveen 500 m 2009 Heerenveen 500 m 2010 Heerenveen 500 m 2010 Heerenveen 1000 m 2011 Heerenveen 1000 m 2012 Heerenveen 500 m Dutch Sprint Championships 2009 Groningen Sprint 2011 Heerenveen Sprint 2012 Heerenveen Sprint 2014 Amsterdam Sprint 2010 Heerenveen Sprint 2013 Groningen Sprint 2007 Groningen Sprint 2008 Heerenveen Sprint 2016 Heerenveen Sprint

Margot Boer (born 7 August 1985) is a Dutch former speed skater. She is specialised in the 500, 1000 and 1500 m.

Sports career

After spending a few years at local teams in the South Holland area, Boer was seen as one of the Netherlands main future talents and was offered a contract at the KNSB youth development team for the 2006–07 season. In the years before she already participated in several World Cup meetings.

Her first success in her new team was winning a gold medal on the 500 m at the 2007 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships. She won the both races beating all the opponents, including favourites such as Marianne Timmer and Annette Gerritsen.

2010 Winter Olympics

Boer qualified to participate in all of her specialty distances at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She just missed out on medals in each of them, coming in 4th on both the 500 and 1500 m and 6th on the 1000 m, 0.22, 0.14, and 0.22 seconds from winning a bronze medal, respectively.

2014 Winter Olympics

On 11 February 2014, Boer won the bronze medal in the women's 500 m longtrack speedskating event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.^[1] This is the first medal at the Olympic women's 500 m longtrack speedskating event for the Netherlands.^[2] Two days later on 13 February 2014 Boer also won the bronze medal in the women's longtrack 1000 m event, making her the nation's first female skater to win Olympic medals on both sprint distances.

Performance

Personal records

Personal records[3]
Women's speed skating
Event	Result	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	37.28	15 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1000 m	1:13.77	17 November 2013	Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1500 m	1:57.00	29 December 2013	Thialf, Heerenveen
3000 m	4:35.70	26 February 2005	IJsbaan van Groningen, Groningen
5000 m	8:12.56	26 February 2006	IJsbaan van Groningen, Groningen

Results timeline

Season	Dutch SD	Dutch Sprint	World Sprint	World SD	Olympic Games	World Cup
2003–04	20th 1000 m	14th	Did not participate		Not held	Did not participate
2004–05	8th 500 m 14th 1000 m	Did not participate				35th 500 m 20th 1000 m
2005–06	6th 500 m 11th 1000 m	6th	Did not participate			14th 100 m 18th 500 m 18th 1000 m
2006–07	500 m 5th 1000 m 5th 1500 m		6th	10th 2x500 m 7th 1000 m	Not held	19th 100 m 8th 500 m 12th 1000 m 30th 1500 m
2007–08	500 m 22nd 1000 m		Did not participate			30th 500 m 13th 1000 m 26th 1500 m
2008–09	500 m 7th 1000 m 17th 1500 m		4th	6th 2x500 m 1000 m		21st 100 m 500 m 5th 1000 m
2009–10	500 m 1000 m		Did not participate	Not held	4th 2x500 m 6th 1000 m 4th 1500 m	500 m 1000 m 13th 1500 m
2010–11	500 m 1000 m 7th 1500 m			7th 2x500 m 6th 1000 m	Not held	500 m 1000 m 17th 1500 m
2011–12	500 m 4th 1000 m 4th 1500 m		4th	9th 2x500 m 1000 m		4th 500 m 4th 1000 m 16th 1500 m
2012–13	500 m 7th 1000 m		7th	16th 2x500 m		8th 500 m 10th 1000 m
2013–14	500 m 4th 1000 m 7th 1500 m		4th	Not held	2x500 m 1000 m	6th 500 m 5th 1000 m 11th GWC
2014–15	500 m 8th 1000 m 15th 1500 m		7th	11th 2x500 m	Not held	8th 500 m 19th 1000 m 24th GWC
2015–16	500 m 5th 1000 m			11th 2x500 m

^[4][5]

References

1. James O'Brien (11 February 2014). "Heather Richardson falls short of medal, Lee Sang-hwa wins 500m gold". NBC News.
2. (Dutch) Lisette van der Geest; Pieter Sabel (11 February 2014). "Live – Margot Boer wint brons" (in Dutch). Volkskrant.nl.
3. "Margot Boer". www.speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
4. "Margot Boer". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
5. "Margot Boer". www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Profile page of Margot Boer on Teamliga.nl