Ted-Jan Bloemen

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Ted-Jan Bloemen (born 16 August 1986) is a Dutch-Canadian long track speed skater. He started competing for the Canadian national speed skating team during the 2014–15 season, but before that, he competed for the Netherlands in international competitions. Bloemen primarily competes in long-distance events as well as team pursuit events. He is a former world record holder for the 5,000 m (6:01.86), set in Salt Lake City, and was the Olympic record holder for the 10,000 m (12:39.77), set when he won gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Bloemen also won a silver medal in the 5,000 m at the Pyeongchang Olympics, the first Canadian man to medal in the distance since 1932. He has won a silver in 10,000 m and one bronze and silver in the team pursuit at the World Speed Skating Championships.

Ted-Jan Bloemen
Bloemen (in the middle) during the team pursuit at the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Canadian
Born (1986-08-16) 16 August 1986 (age 38)
Leiderdorp, Netherlands[1]
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Weight72 kg (159 lb)[2]
Sport
CountryCanada
SportSpeed skating
Event(s)5000 m, 10000 m
ClubIchiban SSC
Turned pro2006
Coached byBart Schouten
Medal record
Men's speed skating
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang 10,000 m
Silver medal – second place 2018 Pyeongchang 5,000 m
World Single Distance Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Salt Lake City 5,000 m
Silver medal – second place 2015 Heerenveen Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2016 Kolomna 10,000 m
Silver medal – second place 2020 Salt Lake City 10,000 m
Silver medal – second place 2021 Heerenveen Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2024 Calgary 10000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Kolomna Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Heerenveen 10000 m
Four Continents Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Calgary 5000 m
Gold medal – first place 2022 Calgary Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2022 Calgary 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Salt Lake City 5000 m

Career

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Bloemen started skating at a young age in his hometown of Gouda. He participated at the 2006 World Junior Speed Skating Championships in Erfurt, where he came in 5th. In the 2007/2008 season, he first participated in the Speed Skating World Cup at the long distances, winning the Team pursuit with the Dutch team. He also reached 4th place at that season's Dutch Allround Championships and 8th place at the 2008 European Speed Skating Championships. The 2009/2010 season was his best up to that point, coming in second at the Dutch Allround and 4th at the World Allround Championships.[3] Following a less successful next season, he retired as a professional skater but still participated in championships as an amateur operating from Friesland. Remarkably, he qualified for the 2012 European (9th place) and World Championships (14th place) and won the National Championships. Though somewhat aided by the absence of Jan Blokhuijsen and Sven Kramer, this was the first time that an amateur won this Dutch National Championships since the introduction of professional skating.[4] He joined the (professional) BAM skating team the next season, but disappointing results (15th at the European Championships) caused his contract not to be extended.[5]

Bloemen moved to Canada to compete for the Canadian national team in the summer of 2014.[6][7] He won a silver medal as part of the team pursuit with Canada at the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships. There Canada's Denny Morrison and teammate said of the team's silver that "With (Bloemen) coming over this summer, it was a new team, and we struggled early on this season. So we had to communicate, find out what our flaws were, correct our flaws, and we had better results... And today, it all came together. This is just the beginning for us on the road to the 2018 Olympics."[8]

He set a world record in the 10,000 metres on 21 November 2015 with a time of 12 minutes 36.30 seconds at an ISU World Cup event. This was more than five seconds faster than the previous mark of 12:41.69 set by Sven Kramer of the Netherlands on 10 March 2007; both men set their times at Salt Lake City's Utah Olympic Oval.[7] After the race he said, "I've dreamt of this record for a long time. It was a perfect race. All through the race, I heard the P.A. announcer and the crowd go wild when they saw my times and realized I was close to a world record. But I was quick to ignore it all, and I was able to refocus on my technique, which was key to having a good race – as well as being consistent, physically and mentally."[7] Two years later, Bloemen also beat the 5,000 m world record, again pipping Kramer to the feat, overcoming the ten-year-old time that Kramer put up with a time of 6:01.86.[9]

The 2018 Winter Olympics took place in Pyeongchang, Korea and there Bloemen competed for Canada in his first Olympics at the age of 31. In the 5,000 m race, his first event, he skated to a silver medal. Trailing his skating partner Sverre Lunde Pedersen on the final lap by nearly a second, Bloemen was able to tie Pedersen in a photo finish. Photo technology later revealed that he had beaten Pedersen by two-thousandths of a second.[10] This was the first medal for Canada in the men's 5,000 m since Willy Logan won bronze in Lake Placid at the 1932 Winter Olympics.[11] In the 10,000 m race, Bloemen won the gold medal to become the first non-Dutch skater to win a speed-skating event at the 2018 Games.[12] He also set the new Olympic Record for that distance.[13] Bloemen finished off the season by winning the annual World Cup 5,000/10,000-metre classification championship.[14]

On February 13, 2020, Bloemen won the gold medal in the 5000 m event at the 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships skated at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City; Canadian teammate Graeme Fish took the bronze.[15] The next day he finished second in the 10,000 m race in which Fish broke Bloemen's 2015 world record to take the gold medal.[16]

Personal

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Bloemen's father, Gerhard-Jan Bloemen, is a retired[17] general practitioner in Gouda and has dual Dutch-Canadian citizenship, being born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, a few years before his Dutch parents returned with him to the Netherlands. This made Bloemen also a dual citizen through his Canadian-born father.[7][18] although he was born in Canada he was Dutch by birth for both his parents were Dutch.

Personal records

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Personal records[19]
Men's speed skating
Event Result Date Location Notes
500 m 36.87 19 March 2010 Thialf, Heerenveen World Allround Championships
1000 m 1:10.87 21 March 2009 Olympic Oval, Calgary Intact Finale 2009
1500 m 1:44.91 15 November 2015 Olympic Oval, Calgary World Cup
3000 m 3:37.04 30 December 2017 Olympic Oval, Calgary Time trials; Current national record.[20]
5000 m 6:01.86 10 December 2017 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City Former world record
10,000 m 12:33.75 18 December 2022 Olympic Oval, Calgary World Cup
Samalog 148.630 2–3 March 2019 Olympic Oval, Calgary World Allround Championships; Current national record.[21]

As of 10 March 2019, Bloemen is in 7th position in the adelskalender with 145.841 points.[22] Between 12 October 2017 and 2 March 2019 he held a personal best 5th place.[23]

Tournament overview

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Season
Dutch
Championships
Single
Distances
Dutch
Championships
Allround
European
Championships
Allround
World
Championships
Allround
World
Championships
Single
Distances
 
Olympic
Games
World Cup
GWC
World
Championships
Junior
Canadian
Championships
Single Distances/
Long Track

2005–06
HEERENVEEN

24th 1500m
15th 5000m
UTRECHT

13th 500m
13th 5000m
23rd 1500m
DNQ 10000m
NC overall(20th)
ERFURT

22nd 500m
  5000m
9th 1500m
  10000m
5th overall
  team pursuit

2006–07
ASSEN

14th 5000m
HEERENVEEN

20th 500m
15th 5000m
25th 1500m
DNQ 10000m
NC overall(21st)

2007–08
HEERENVEEN

9th 5000m
5th 10000m
GRONINGEN

8th 500m
5th 5000m
15th 1500m
  10000m
4th overall
KOLOMNA

14th 500m
9th 5000m
15th 1500m
7th 10000m
8th overall

38th 5000/10000m
  team pursuit

2008–09
HEERENVEEN

5th 5000m
4th 10000m
HEERENVEEN

22nd 500m
16th 5000m
DNS 1500m
DNS 10000m
NC overall

6th 5000/10000m

2009–10
HEERENVEEN

9th 5000m
HEERENVEEN

8th 500m
  5000m
6th 1500m
  10000m
  overall
HEERENVEEN

13th 500m
  5000m
7th 1500m
  10000m
4th overall

2010–11
HEERENVEEN

11th 1500m
9th 5000m
5th 10000m
HEERENVEEN

13th 500m
5th 5000m
11th 1500m
6th 10000m
5th overall

35th 5000/10000m

2011–12
HEERENVEEN

7th 5000m
11th 10000m
HEERENVEEN

8th 500m
  5000m
4th 1500m
  10000m
  overall
BUDAPEST

14th 500m
4th 5000m
23rd 1500m
6th 10000m
9th overall
MOSCOW

15th 500m
14th 5000m
14th 1500m
DNQ 10000m
NC overall(14th)

28th 5000/10000m

2012–13
HEERENVEEN

5th 5000m
4th 10000m
HEERENVEEN

16th 500m
4th 5000m
8th 1500m
4th 10000m
4th overall
HEERENVEEN

20th 500m
11th 5000m
18th 1500m
DNQ 10000m
NC overall(15th)

8th 5000/10000m

2013–14
HEERENVEEN

12th 5000m
10th 10000m
AMSTERDAM

13th 500m
9th 5000m
13th 1500m
DNQ 10000m
NC overall(12th)

2014–15
CALGARY

22nd 500m
8th 5000m
17th 1500m
DNQ 10000m
NC overall(16th)
HEERENVEEN

6th 5000m
6th 10000m
  team pursuit

36th 1500m
16th 5000/10000m
CALGARY

  1500m
  5000m
19th 500m

2015–16
BERLIN

21st 500m
4th 5000m
13th 1500m
5th 10000m
5th overall
KOLOMNA

5th 5000m
  10000m
  team pursuit

28th 1500m
4th 5000/10000m

2016–17
GANGNEUNG

5th 5000m
4th 10000m
4th team pursuit

27th 1500m
  5000/10000m
CALGARY

  5000m
17th 500m
DQ 1500m
  1500m

2017–18
AMSTERDAM

19th 500m
15th 5000m
6th 1500m
DNQ 10000m
NC overall(16th)
GANGNEUNG

  5000m
  10000m
7th team pursuit

43rd 1500m
  5000/10000m
CALGARY

  5000m
4th 1500m
  10000m

2018–19
CALGARY

19th 500m
5th 5000m
12th 1500m
  10000m
5th overall
INZELL

5th 5000m
5th team pursuit

34th 1500m
7th 5000/10000m
CALGARY

  5000m
  1500m

2019–20
HAMAR

21st 500m
5th 5000m
16th 1500m
4th 10000m
7th overall
SALT LAkE CITY

  5000m
  10000m
4th team pursuit

59th 1500m
4th 5000/10000m
CALGARY

  5000m
  10000m
6th 1500m

2020–21
HEERENVEEN

6th 10000m
  team pursuit

29th 1500m
15th 5000/10000m

2021–22
HAMAR

17th 500m
16th 5000m
DNS 1500m
DNS 10000m
NC overall
BEIJING

10th 5000m
8th 10000m
5th team pursuit
CALGARY

  5000m
  10000m
5th 1500m

Source: [24] [25] [26]

Medal overview

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Championship      
Dutch Championships Allround 1 1 0
Olympic Games 1 1 0
World Championships Single Distances team 0 1 0
World Championships Allround individual 0 1 2
World Championships Junior team 1 0 0
World Cup
individual
team
1
1
0
1
1
0
Dutch Championships Allround single distances 4 1 0

Career highlights

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Winter Olympics
2018Pyeongchang,   at Men's 5000m
2018Pyeongchang,   at Men's 10000m
World Allround Championships
2010 – Heerenveen, 4th
2016 – Berlin, 5th
2019 – Calgary, 5th
European Allround Championships
2008 – Kolomna, 8th
National Allround Championships
2010Heerenveen,  
2012Heerenveen,  
World Junior Allround Championships
2006 – Erfurt, 5th
2006 – Erfurt,   1st at team pursuit
European Junior Games
2006 – Collalbo,   1st at team pursuit
2006 – Collalbo,   3rd at 1500 m

References

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  1. ^ "Bloemen, Ted-Jan". Speed Skating Canada. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Ted-Jan Bloemen Profile". Eurosport. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  3. ^ Bloemen bloeit op, De Telegraaf, 20 March 2010.
  4. ^ Ted-Jan Bloemen Nederlands kampioen allround, 5 February 2012.
  5. ^ Geen contractverlenging Bloemen bij BAM, 26 March 2013.
  6. ^ "Dutch international long track speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen from Netherlands coming to skate for Canada". Speed Skating Canada. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. ^ a b c d "Ted-Jan Bloemen sets world long-track speed skating record in 10,000m". CBC Sports. The Canadian Press. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  8. ^ "Denny Morrison wins 2 medals at speed skating worlds". CBC Sports. 13 February 2015.
  9. ^ "Canadian speed skater Bloemen breaks decade-old world record in men's 5,000". CBC Sports. 10 December 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  10. ^ "How Canada helped Ted-Jan Bloemen reach his potential". CBC Sports. 11 February 2018.
  11. ^ "Canadian speed skater Bloemen wins silver in men's 5,000m". CBC Sports. 11 February 2018.
  12. ^ "Bloemen hands Canada speed skating gold". OWG Speed Skating News. PyeongChang, Republic of Korea: International Skating Union. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
  13. ^ Speed Skating – Men's 10,000m – Results (PDF), Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics, 15 February 2018, archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2018, retrieved 15 February 2018
  14. ^ "Ted-Jan Bloemen crowned World Cup speed skating champ". No. 17 March 2018. CBC Sports. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  15. ^ "Canada's Bloemen, Fish burst to gold, bronze at single distance speed skating worlds". CBC Sports. The Canadian Press. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  16. ^ "Canada's Graeme Fish breaks 10,000m world record at speed skating championships". CBC Sports. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  17. ^ Goudse huisarts Bloemen met pensioen: ‘Meer tijd om schaatszoon Ted-Jan aan te moedigen’ (in Dutch), Algemeen Dagblad
  18. ^ "Dutch speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen wants to compete for Canada". CBC Sports. 3 June 2014.
  19. ^ "Ted-Jan Bloemen". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  20. ^ Canadian records on the 3000m at SpeedskatingResults.com
  21. ^ Evert Stenlund, All Time Best Combination Results
  22. ^ "Adelskalendern". evertstenlund.se. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  23. ^ Evert Stenlund, Evolution of Adelskalendern since 1 July 2014
  24. ^ "Ted-Jan Bloemen". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  25. ^ "Ted-Jan Bloemen". speedskatingnews.info. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  26. ^ "Ted-Jan Bloemen". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
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Records
Preceded by Men's 5000 m speed skating world record
10 December 2017 – 3 December 2021
Succeeded by
Preceded by Men's 10,000 m speed skating world record
21 November 2015 – 14 February 2020
Succeeded by
Awards
Preceded by Oscar Mathisen Award
2016
Succeeded by