Carry Geijssen

Carolina ("Carry") Cornelia Catharina Geijssen (born 11 January 1947) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.

Carry Geijssen

Geijssen at the 1968 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1947-01-11) January 11, 1947 Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing the  Netherlands Olympic Games 1968 Grenoble 1000 m 1968 Grenoble 1500 m World Championships 1968 Helsinki Allround

Carry Geijssen won silver at the Dutch Allround Championships in 1965 (a feat she would repeat in 1967 and 1968). In 1966, she became Dutch Allround Champion. At the 1968 World Allround Championships in Helsinki, she won bronze behind Stien Kaiser and Ans Schut, making the podium entirely Dutch.

Geijssen then participated in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, where she became Olympic Champion on the 1,000 m in a new Olympic record time. This made her the first Dutch Olympic Champion in speed skating in Olympic history. The next day, Ans Schut (on the 3,000 m) would become the second, while Kees Verkerk (on the 1,500 m) would become the third Dutch Olympic Champion in speed skating four days after that. Geijssen went on to win Olympic silver on the 1,500 m, just 0.3 seconds behind winner Kaija Mustonen.[1]

After that, Geijssen remained active for several more years, but did not have any more major results. She ended her speed skating career in 1971. She married the cyclist Rien Langkruis, and later lived in Indonesia and Canada.[1]