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Carlijn Achtereekte

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Born
1990 (34 years old)

Birth Place

Lettele, Netherlands

Position
Speed Skater

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Height
1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight
60 kg (132 lb)

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Team
Netherlands Speed Skating Women

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League
Olympics Speed Skating

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Latest Results

					Womens 3000m	05 Feb 22
					Womens 3000m	10 Feb 18

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Carlijn Achtereekte (Dutch pronunciation: ; born 29 January 1990) is a Dutch speed skater who specialises in long distances. Born in Lettele, Achtereekte won three silver medals in the 5000 metres at the Dutch Single Distance Championships. At the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen she won the silver medal at the 5000 metres event behind Martina Sáblíková.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics, her first Olympic Games, Achtereekte took a surprise gold medal in the 3000 metres, leading home team-mates Ireen Wüst and Antoinette de Jong in a Dutch clean sweep of the podium, despite never having won a World Cup race. On 23 March 2018 she was awarded Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau by King Willem-Alexander.