Jeroen de Vries
Encyclopedia
Jeroen de Vries is a Dutch
marathon speed skater
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As of 2006, De Vries has won eight marathons on artificial speed skating tracks, including one during the 2006 Six Days of the Greenery
. In 2005, he won the Alternative Elfstedentocht
at the Weissensee in 5:13.57 hours.
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...
marathon speed skater
Speed skating
Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...
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As of 2006, De Vries has won eight marathons on artificial speed skating tracks, including one during the 2006 Six Days of the Greenery
2006 Six Days of the Greenery
The 2006 Six Days of the Greenery of marathon speed skating was held in the Netherlands, between December 11 and December 16, 2006. The tournament hosted six races of 100 laps in six days in the chase for the brussels sprout suit....
. In 2005, he won the Alternative Elfstedentocht
Elfstedentocht
The Elfstedentocht is the world's largest and longest speed skating competition and leisure skating tour, and is held irregularly in the province of Friesland, Netherlands.The tour, almost 200 km in length, is conducted on frozen canals, rivers and lakes between the eleven historic...
at the Weissensee in 5:13.57 hours.