Tonny de Jong (born 17 July 1974) is a former Dutch 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 3000 m and the 5000 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.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics she had little success, but she did appear in a nude pictorial in the March issue of the Dutch Playboy."Tonny de Jong poseert naakt" , rieplachte on 30 september 2008 After the following World Allround Championships she ended her speedskating career.
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 Winter Olympics World Allround 1997 1999 World Sprint World Single Distance 1999 (3000 m) 1999 (1500 m) 1999 (5000 m) 2000 (5000 m) World Cup 1997 (3000 / 5000 m) 1997 (1500 m) 1999 (1500 m) European Allround 1997 1999 1995 Dutch Allround 1997 1998 2001 1995 1996 2000 Dutch Sprint 1999 Dutch Single Distance 1996 (3000 m) 1996 (5000 m) 1997 (3000 m) 1998 (3000 m) 2001 (1500 m) 2001 (3000 m) 2001 (5000 m) 1993 (1500 m) 1993 (5000 m) 1994 (1500 m) 1994 (5000 m) 1997 (5000 m) 1998 (1000 m) 1998 (1500 m) 2000 (1000 m) 2000 (3000 m) 1997 (1500 m) 2000 (1500 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.
DistanceTimeDateVenueWR500 m39.3627 January 2002Calgary37.221000 m1:16.2321 February 1999Calgary1:14.961500 m1:56.0220 February 2002Salt Lake City1:54.383000 m4:00.4910 February 2002Salt Lake City3:59.265000 m7:01.1723 February 2002Salt Lake City6:52.44Small combination163.49710 January 1999Heerenveen163.020
De Jong has an Adelskalender score of 160.231. Her highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a 3rd place.
References
External links
Tonny de Jong at SkateResults.com Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database The Adelskalender pages maintained by Evert Stenlund