Jan Blokhuijsen

He currently holds the world record in the team pursuit discipline, along with teammates Sven Kramer and Koen Verweij. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, he won a silver medal in the Men's 5000 m competition. At the 2014 European allround championships in Hamar, Blokhuijsen won his first European title. [2]

In 2007, he got his VWO degree at school. After a successful period in skating and inline skating (in which he won several Dutch and European titles at the junior categories and a second place at the world championships in Korea) he decided to focus only on speedskating. In February 2008, he won the Dutch Allround Speed Skating Championships junior title at the ice rink of Groningen. Later in the same month, he became world champion at the junior world championships speedskating, where he finished in front of his teammates Koen Verweij and Berden de Vries. Together with them he also won the world title at the team pursuit.

After the team pursuit event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Blokhuijsen made a comment during a press conference to the host South Koreans to "treat dogs better in this country", criticizing dog meat consumption in the host nation.[3] Many South Koreans perceived his comment was disrespectful, claiming it was racist and ignorant of Korean culture and the declining dog meat custom in the country.[4][5][6][7] He later gave an apology for this comment on Twitter, which he deleted later.

As of 10 March 2020, Blokhuijsen is in 11th position in the adelskalender with a score of 146.253 points.[10] Between 13 February 2011 and 11 October 2013 he held a personal best 6th place.[11]

* together with Sven Kramer and Koen Verweij

source[12]

Season	Dutch Championships Single Distances	Dutch Championships Allround	European Championships Allround	World Championships Allround	World Championships Single Distances	Olympic Games	World Cup GWC	World Championships Junior Allround
2006–2007								INNSBRUCK Team pursuit
2007–2008	12th 1500m 13th 5000m	500m 12th 5000m 11th 1500m 11th 10000m 8th overall						CHANGCHUN 4th 500m 3000m 1500m 5000m overall Team pursuit
2008–2009	14th 1500m 19th 5000m	5th 500m 10th 5000m 14th 1500m 9th 10000m 8th overall
2009–2010	7th 1500m 6th 5000m		HAMAR 7th 500m 4th 5000m 17th 1500m 4th 10000m 5th overall	HEERENVEEN 9th 500m 7th 5000m 10th 1500m 6th 10000m 5th overall		VANCOUVER 9th 5000m Team pursuit	10th 5000/10000m Team pursuit
2010–2011	9th 1500m 8th 5000m DQ 10000m	500m 5000m 4th 1500m 4th 10000m overall	COLLALBO 500m 4th 5000m 5th 1500m 10000m overall	CALGARY 4th 500m 4th 5000m 6th 1500m 10000m overall	INZELL DQ 5000m Team pursuit		16th 5000/10000m 8th Team pursuit
2011–2012	6th 1500m 4th 5000m 5th 10000m		BUDAPEST 500m 5000m 1500m 10000m overall	MOSCOW 7th 500m 5000m 1500m 10000m overall	HEERENVEEN 4th 5000m Team pursuit		6th 5000/10000m Team pursuit
2012–2013	10th 1500m 5000m 10000m	500m 5000m 1500m 10000m overall	HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 5000m 10th 1500m 10000m overall	HAMAR 8th 500m 8th 5000m 13th 1500m DNQ 10000m NC overall	SOCHI Team pursuit		5th 5000/10000m Team pursuit
2013–2014	6th 1500m 4th 5000m 4th 10000m		HAMAR 7th 500m 5000m 9th 1500m 10000m overall	HEERENVEEN 7th 500m 5000m 6th 1500m 10000m overall		SOCHI 13th 1500m 5000m Team pursuit	32nd 1500m 5th 5000/10000m Team pursuit
2014–2015	8th 1500m DNF 5000m DNF 10000m	500m 11th 5000m 16th 1500m DNQ 10000m NC overall(9th)
2015–2016	7th 1500m 6th 5000m	500m 5000m 1500m 10000m overall	BERLIN 5th 500m 5000m 9th 1500m 10000m overall	BERLIN 6th 500m 5000m 6th 1500m 10000m overall	KOLOMNA Team pursuit		24th 1500m Team pursuit
2016–2017	8th 1500m 4th 5000m 6th 10000m	500m 5000m 1500m 10000m overall	HEERENVEEN 500m 5000m 7th 1500m 10000m overall	HAMAR 6th 500m 5000m 15th 1500m 10000m overall	GANGNEUNG Team pursuit		40th 1500m 25th 5000m Team pursuit
2017–2018	7th 1500m 5th 5000m 4th 10000m					GANGNEUNG 7th 5000m Team pursuit
2018–2019
2019–2020	DQ 1500m 6th 5000m 4th 10000m Mass start	4th 500m 5000m 1500m 10000m overall		HAMAR 8th 500m 7th 5000m 4th 1500m 5th 10000m 4th overall

Source[13]

Season	5000/10000 meter
2009–2010	–	1st(b)	–*	1st(b)	–*	4th
2010–2011	–	–	–*	4th –*	8th
2011–2012	8th	5th	–*		–*	4th
2012–2013			7th*	7th	–*	5th
2013–2014	6th	12th	–*		–
2014–2015
2015–2016
2016–2017	–	–	1st(b)	–*	–	–
2017–2018	4th	–	7th	–	–	–
2018–2019
2019–2020	–	1st(b)	–	–	–	–

Season	Team pursuit
2009–2010			–	4th
2010–2011	–	–	DQ
2011–2012			–
2012–2013			–
2013–2014
2014–2015
2015–2016	DNF
2016–2017	–	–	DQ		–
2017–2018	10th		–	–
2018–2019
2019–2020

Source[14]

– = Did not participate

* = 10000 meter

(b) = Division B

DNF = Did not finish

DQ = Disqualified

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