Auke Adema

Dutch speed skater

Auke Adema
Adema in 1941
Personal information
Born(1907-10-04)4 October 1907
Franeker, Netherlands
Died(1976-03-31)31 March 1976
Berlikum, Netherlands
Sport
Country Netherlands
SportSpeed skating
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)1940 Elfstedentocht
1941 Elfstedentocht

Auke Adema (4 October 1907 – 31 March 1976) was a Dutch skater. He won the Elfstedentocht, the world's largest speed skating competition twice. In the sixth race in 1940 he controversially shared the victory with Durk van der Duim [nl], Cor Jongert [nl], Piet Keijzer [nl] and Sjouke Westra [nl]. In Dokkum they had made a conspiracy to cross the finish line together. This became known as the Pact of Dokkum. The practice of non competitive finishing was outlawed after this.[1] Adema won the seventh Elfstedentocht by himself on 6 February 1941 in a time of 9 hours 19 minutes, a race record. In the race he broke away from the pack with two others to have an early lead. However, when stopping to eat a sausage[2] with Joop Bosman at Workum, other skaters managed to get ahead, but Adema overtook and won by three minutes over Bosman.[3]

References

  1. ^ "De Elfstedentocht "de Toch der Tochten" De Elfstedentocht van 1940". Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  2. ^ "De Elfstedentocht "de Toch der Tochten" De Elfstedentocht van 1941". Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Auke Adema wint Elfstedentocht 1941". Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  • film of the 1941 race
  • Elfstedentocht 1941 (Harlingen)
  • Geschiedenis24 Image
  • "Elfstedentocht in Oorlogstijd Expositie Fries Museum". 12 December 2008.
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Elfstedentocht
Year Date Temperature Winner (*) Time Distance Average speed
1909 2 January n/a Minne Hoekstra [nl] 13:50 189 km 13.7 km/h
1912 7 February 3.8°C Coen de Koning 11:40 189 km 16.2 km/h
1917 27 January -1.8°C Coen de Koning 9:53 189 km 19.1 km/h
1929 12 February -10.1°C Karst Leemburg [nl] 11:09 191 km 17.1 km/h
1933 16 December -2.0°C
  • Abe de Vries [nl]
  • Sipke Castelein [nl]
 9:53 195 km 19.7 km/h
1940 30 January -6.1°C
  • Piet Keijzer [nl]
  • Auke Adema
  • Cor Jongert [nl]
  • Durk van der Duim [nl]
  • Sjouke Westra [nl]
 11:34 198.5 km 17.3 km/h
1941 7 February 0.0°C Auke Adema 9:19 198.5 km 21.3 km/h
1942 22 January -11.7°C Sietze de Groot [nl] 8:44 198 km 22.7 km/h
1947 8 February -8.5°C Jan W. van der Hoorn [nl] 10:51 191 km 17.6 km/h
1954 3 February -5.4°C Jeen van den Berg 7:35 198.5 km 26.2 km/h
1956 14 February -4.9°C no winner declared (**) — 190.5 km —
1963 18 January -7.7°C Reinier Paping 10:59 196.5 km 17.9 km/h
Winner men Winner women (*)
1985 21 February 0.3°C Evert van Benthem Lenie van der Hoorn [nl] 6:47 196.8 km 29.0 km/h
1986 26 February -6.9°C Evert van Benthem Tineke Dijkshoorn [nl] 6:55 199.3 km 28.8 km/h
1997 4 January -3.6°C Henk Angenent Klasina Seinstra [nl] 6:49 199.6 km 29.3 km/h
  • "History" (in Dutch). Vereniging De Friesche Elf Steden [Association of the Eleven Fries Cities]. Retrieved 26 September 2010.

* Women were first allowed to take part in the tour proper in 1985; before then they had to skate with the amateurs and no award was given.

** After shared wins in 1933 and 1940, when the front-runners decided not to compete but join hands to cross the line together, this practice was forbidden by the organisation. Jan van der Hoorn, Aad de Koning, Jeen Nauta, Maus Wijnhout and Anton Verhoeven however ignored this rule when they crossed the finish line in unison. They were not disqualified, but no winner was declared.

  • "3,000 Skaters in 124-mile race". The Times. No. 48527. London. 31 January 1940. col B, p. 7. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
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