held in 1985 and takes place in May. It attracts amateur runners. The city of Leeuwarden has two sailing boats (skûtsje) racing in the yearly sailing competition Skûtsjesilen. The Elfstedenhal is a sport venue. The stadium is used for long track speed skating, short track speed skating, ice hockey, figure skating and curling. The 400m indoor speed skating oval is named after speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra. The ice hockey club is IJshockeyclub Capitals Leeuwarden (IJCCL). Leeuwarden is the starting and finishing point for the celebrated Elfstedentocht, a speed skating race over the Frisian waterways that is held when winter conditions in the province allow. it last took place in January 1997, preceded by the races of 1986 and 1985. In 1986, the Dutch king Willem-Alexander participated in the Eleven cities tour, with the pseudonym W.A. van Buren, which is the pseudonym of the royal family of the Netherlands. Leeuwarden will host the World Flying Disc Federation 2020 World Ultimate and Guts Championships from the 11th to the 18th of July. The event is expected to have over 2500 athletes from 40 countries. Media The Leeuwarder Courant and Friesch Dagblad are daily newspapers mainly written in Dutch (published by the NDC Mediagroep). Omrop Fryslân is a public broadcaster with radio and TV programs mainly in Frisian. Notable residents Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912), knighted painter Eva and Abraham Beem (1932/1934–1944), young Jewish Holocaust victims Cornelis Botke (1887–1954), painter and etcher Cisca Dresselhuys (born 1943), journalist and magazine editor Esmée van Eeghen (1918–1944), resistance fighter in World War II Dirk van Erp (1860–1933), artisan and metalsmith M. C. Escher (1898–1972), graphic artist Richard Hageman (1881–1966), conductor, pianist, composer, and actor Willem van Haren (1710–1768), poet Havank (1904–1964), writer, journalist, and translator Wilhelmina van Idsinga (1788–1819), painter Johannes Henricus Gerardus Jansen (1868–1936), archbishop Wijerd Jelckama ( 1490–1523), military commander Mata Hari (1876–1917), exotic dancer and courtesan, possible double agent Hendrik Niehoff (1495– 1561), pipe organ maker Piet Paaltjens (1835–1894), minister and romantic author Joachim van Plettenberg (1739–1793), colonial governor Tjitske Reidinga (born 1972), actress Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898–1936), poet and novelist Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel (1622-1672), painter Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860–1930), politician Cornelis Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn (1857–1904), chemist Saskia van Uylenburg (1612–1642), wife of the painter Rembrandt van Rijn Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715–1785), classical scholar Campegius Vitringa (1659-1722), theologian Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527– 1607), architect, painter, and engineer Harm Wiersma