Margot Boer

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

Margot Boer

Boer in 2009
Personal information
Born	(1985-08-07) 7 August 1985 (age 39) Woubrugge, Netherlands
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Turned pro	2006
Retired	2016
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing 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

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 in the 500 m at the 2007 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships. She won 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.

Personal records

Personal records[3]
Speed skating
Event	Result	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	37.28	15 November 2013	Calgary
1000 m	1:13.77	17 November 2013	Calgary
1500 m	1:57.00	29 December 2013	Heerenveen
3000 m	4:35.70	26 February 2005	Kardinge, Groningen
5000 m	8:12.56	26 February 2006	Kardinge, Groningen

Tournament overview

Season	Dutch Championships Single Distances	Dutch Championships Sprint	World Championships Sprint	World Championships Single Distances	Olympic Games	World Cup GWC
2003–04	HEERENVEEN 20th 1000m
2004–05	ASSEN 8th 500m 14th 1000m	GRONINGEN 14th 500m 13th 1000m 15th 500m 17th 1000m 14th overall				35th 500m 20th 1000m
2005–06	HEERENVEEN 6th 500m 11th 1000m	ASSEN 4th 500m 1000m 8th 500m 6th 1000m 6th overall				14th 100m 18th 500m 18th 1000m
2006–07	ASSEN 500m 5th 1000m 5th 1500m	GRONINGEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	HAMAR 9th 500m 8th 1000m 11th 500m 6th 1000m 6th overall	SALT LAKE CITY 10th 2x500m 7th 1000m		19th 100m 8th 500m 12th 1000m 30th 1500m
2007–08	HEERENVEEN 500m 22nd 1000m	HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m 500m 6th 1000m overall				30th 500m 13th 1000m 26th 1500m
2008–09	HEERENVEEN 500m 7th 1000m 17th 1500m	GRONINGEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	MOSCOW 8th 500m 1000m 9th 500m 1000m 4th overall	VANCOUVER 6th 2x500m 1000m		21st 100m 500m 5th 1000m
2009–10	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m	GRONINGEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall			VANCOUVER 4th 500m*2 6th 1000m 4th 1500m	500m 1000m 13th 1500m
2010–11	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 7th 1500m	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	HEERENVEEN 500m 7th 1000m 500m 18th 1000m overall	INZELL 7th 2x500m 6th 1000m		500m 1000m 17th 1500m
2011–12	HEERENVEEN 500m 4th 1000m 4th 1500m	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	CALGARY 4th 500m 4th 1000m 4th 500m 4th 1000m 4th overall	HEERENVEEN 9th 2x500m 1000m		4th 500m 4th 1000m 16th 1500m
2012–13	HEERENVEEN 500m 7th 1000m	GRONINGEN 500m 4th 1000m 500m 5th 1000m overall	SALT LAKE CITY 8th 500m 9th 1000m 11th 500m 7th 1000m 7th overall	SOCHI 16th 2x500m		8th 500m 10th 1000m
2013–14	HEERENVEEN 500m 4th 1000m 7th 1500m	AMSTERDAM 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	NAGANO 500m 1000m 500m 1000m 4th overall		SOCHI 500m*2 1000m	6th 500m 5th 1000m 11th GWC
2014–15	HEERENVEEN 500m 8th 1000m 15th 1500m	GRONINGEN 500m 5th 1000m 500m 1000m overall	ASTANA 9th 500m 1000m 10th 500m 7th 1000m 7th overall	HEERENVEEN 11th 2x500m		8th 500m 19th 1000m 24th GWC
2015–16	HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m	HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m 500m 5th 1000m overall		KOLOMNA 11th 2x500m

Source:^[4][5][6]

References

1. James O'Brien (11 February 2014). "Heather Richardson falls short of medal, Lee Sang-hwa wins 500m gold". NBC News.
2. (in 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". SpeedSkatingNews.
5. "Margot Boer". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
6. "Margot Boer". schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

External links

• Margot Boer at the International Skating Union
• Margot Boer at Olympics.com
• Margot Boer at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Official website
• Profile page of Margot Boer on Teamliga.nl

Awards
Preceded by Paulien van Deutekom	Ard Schenk Award 2009	Succeeded by Ireen Wüst