Passage: Speed skating After a successful period around 1900, with Jaap Eden and Coen de Koning as World Champions, Dutch speed skating successes became numerous in the 1960s. Champions Kees Verkerk and Ard Schenk were immensely popular, causing a real speed skating hype in the country. Successes continue up to today, with the likes of Yvonne van Gennip (3 Olympic gold medals in 1988), Rintje Ritsma (4-time World Allround Champion), Jochem Uytdehaage (2 Olympic gold medals in 2002), Marianne Timmer (3 Olympic gold medals in 1998 and 2006), Ireen Wüst (5 Olympic golds in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 6 World Allround Speed Skating Championships) and Sven Kramer (4 Olympic gold medals in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 9 World Allround Championships). The Dutch speed skaters performance at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they won 8 out of 12 events, 23 out of 36 medals, including 4 clean sweeps, is the most dominant performance in a single sport in Olympic history. Thialf Stadium in Heerenveen was the second indoor 400m speed skating oval in the world, the first to host an international championship and remains a world-class facility today. Dutch speed skaters have won 77 world single distance championchips (since 1996).
How many Olympians each won 4 or more medals in 2010, 2014, and 2018? How many Olympians each won more than 4 gold medals in 2018 and at least 5 World Allround Speed Skating Championships? How many Olympians won more than 4 Olympic gold medals in a single event? How many Olympians won no more than 3 medals in a single event? How many Olympics did Ireen Wüst compete in winning 5 golds? How many more Olympic events did Ireen Wüst win a gold medal in than Jochem Uytdehaage? How many more Wold Allround Championships did Sven Kramer win than Rintje Ritsma? How many more World Allround Championships did Sven Kramer win compared to Ireen Ireen Wüst? How many more gold medals did Ireen Wüst win in 2010 than Sven Kramer? How many of the 36 medals in the 2014 Winter Olympics did the Dutch not win? How many of the skaters won a gold medal before 2006? How many of the skaters won a total of 20 Olympic gold medals? How many skaters won at least 4 World Allround Championships? How many total Olympic golds and World Allround Speed Skating Championships did Ireen Wüst win? How many years were between the first Olympic gold Ireen Wüst won and the most recent Olympic gold that she won? How many years were there between the 3 Olympic gold medals won by Marianne Timmer? In the 2014 Winter Olympics, how many events out of 12 did they not win? In the 2014 Winter Olympics, how many medals did the Dutch speed skaters now win out of 36 medals? Which Dutch speed skater won more Olympic gold medals, Ireen Wüst or Sven Kramer? Which Dutch speed skaters were popular in the 1960s? Which Olympians each won 3 or more gold medals in 2006? Which Olympians won 3 Olympic gold medals ten years apart from each other? Which Olympians won 4 or more medals in 2010? Which Olympic gold medalists each got at least 3 gold medals in 2006? Which Olympic players got a minimum of four gold medals during a single Olympic year? Which Olympic players got more than one gold medal for at least three Olympic years? Which Olympic players have gotten maximum three gold medals during a single Olympic year? Which gold medalists got a gold medal for three of the same years? Which same years did two Olympic gold medalists both win multiple gold medals?