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    The Elfstedentocht (Dutch pronunciation: [ɛl(ə)fˈsteːdə(n)tɔxt]; West Frisian: Alvestêdetocht [ɔlvəˈstɛːdətɔχt], English: Eleven cities tour) is a long-distance...
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    the 11 cities of Friesland, a challenge which eventually led to the Elfstedentocht. The first known speed skating competition for women was in Heerenveen...
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    before July 1 preceding the skating season. The Netherlands is home of Elfstedentocht, a 200 km distance skating race of which the tracks leads through the...
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    marathon swimmer born in Alkmaar. In 2019 Van der Weijden swam the Elfstedentocht for charity. He raised more than €6.1 million. Van der Weijden was known...
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    skate marathons on natural ice became the Alternative Elfstedentocht. The Alternative Elfstedentocht races take part in other countries, such as Austria...
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    first successful ascent of the mountain. "Signal 30" "Night Mail" "Elfstedentocht" (Record Store Day single; 11 November 2013) "Gagarin" – 1 December...
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    freshwater canals to freeze hard, the province holds its traditional Elfstedentocht (Eleven cities tour), a 200-kilometre (120 mi) ice skating tour. A traditional...
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    Also, Leeuwarden has been a UNESCO City of Literature since 2019. The Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour), an ice skating tour passing the eleven cities...
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    and 2001. During the last held Elfstedentocht in 1997 she finished second. She also won the alternative Elfstedentocht - skated in Finland - in 1998,...
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    of the 1956 Elfstedentocht. He started a skating shop in Ter Aar. Lenie van der Hoorn-Langelaan (1948), winner of the 1985 Elfstedentocht, the first women's...
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    November 1958) is a Dutch former speed skater who won the rarely raced Elfstedentocht twice in a row, in 1985 and 1986. Van Benthem, a farmer from Leeuwte...
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    Dutch speedskater primarily known as the winner of the Elfstedentocht of 1963. This Elfstedentocht became known as "The hell of '63" when only 69 of the...
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    Bolsward is one of the eleven Frisian cities in which the ice skating Elfstedentocht, an ice skating marathon, is held. Because the marathon depends on the...
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    world record in one-hour skating, at 32,370 m in 1906, and won the Elfstedentocht in 1912 and 1917. De Koning came from a speed skating family. His brother...
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    of the House of Orange-Nassau, he participated in the 1986 Frisian Elfstedentocht, a 200-kilometre-long (120 mi) distance ice skating tour. He ran the...
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  • the Alternative Elfstedentocht at the Weissensee in 5:13.57 hours. Overwinningen, schaatspeloton.nl Weissensee Alternatieve Elfstedentocht Archived 2007-09-28...
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    January 2022. (in Dutch) Gonnie Spijkstra, ""De Unox-associatie bij de Elfstedentocht is invented tradition"", Verse Reclame, 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2015...
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  • speed skating marathon organisation and founder of the Alternative Elfstedentocht. His father, Bram Koopmans was the organiser for the Amstel Gold Race...
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  • marathon speed skating champion three times and won the Alternative Elfstedentocht in Finland twice. In 2006 he won the Open Dutch nature track marathon...
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    Bethlehem, Palestina. Bartlehiem is especially well-known due to the Elfstedentocht for ice skaters, who have to pass through the hamlet twice. Coming from...
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    a population of 950 in January 2017. It is one of the stops on the Elfstedentocht (English: "eleven cities tour"), an ice skating contest that occurs...
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    NHL for the Florida Panthers Evert van Benthem, speed skater, won the Elfstedentocht in 1985 and 1986 Wayne Van Dorp, former ice hockey player in the NHL...
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  • Evert van Benthem (b. 1958), Dutch speedskater, twice winner of the Elfstedentocht Jean Van Benthem (fl. 1908), Belgian cyclist Johan van Benthem (b. 1949)...
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    January 2017. De Bullemolen in Lekkum marks the finishing point of the Elfstedentocht. The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Lackum. The...
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    Sneek, baseball and softball club FC Gescheurde Knieband, football club Elfstedentocht Eleven city ice skating race and tour Fietselfstedentocht Eleven city...
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    author Reinier Paping (1931–2021), speedskater, the winner of the 1963 Elfstedentocht better known as "the hell of '63" Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), professor...
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  • before July 1 preceding the skating season. Most famous race is the Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities) ice skating marathon (200 kilometers) on frozen canals...
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    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...
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  • by Steven de Jong [nl]. The film is based on the 1963 edition of the Elfstedentocht, a long-distance ice skating tour in the Netherlands. This 1963 edition...
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    skaters, and was worn by several winners of the unpredictably-held Elfstedentocht (the frost has to be hard enough for the whole of the roughly 200 km...
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