Helen Tuitert-van Goozen, born 25 December 1980 in Hoogmade

Hoogmade

Hoogmade is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located about 7 km east of Leiden, in the municipality of Kaag en Braassem.Hoogmade was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1855, when it merged with Woubrugge....

, Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, is a former Dutch speed skater. She is married to fellow speed skater and Olympic speed skating champion Mark Tuitert

Mark Tuitert

Mark Tuitert ; born April 4, 1980 in Holten, Overijssel) is a Dutch speed skater. He won gold at the 1500m sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics.-Personal life:Tuitert married fellow Dutch speed skater Helen van Goozen in 2009...

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Van Goozen won gold at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships

World Junior Speed Skating Championships

||valign=top width=50%|In 1971, when the ISU had a congress they decided to hold a World Junior Speed Skating Championships. After 2 test-championships , where only boys where allowed to skate, the first official championship was introduced in Cortina d'Ampezzo. In this championship boys and girls...

in 1999. Her future husband Mark also won gold at the same tournament.

She won the 1500m and 3000m sprints at the Nordic Neo Senior Games in 2002 and has won three World Cup events in the 3000m and 5000m.

External links

• http://www.skateresults.com/skaters/3041 Skateresults.com biography