Henk Angenent

For the footballer, see Henk Angenent (footballer).

Henk Angenent

Personal information
Born	(1967-11-01) 1 November 1967 Woubrugge, Netherlands
Website	www.henkangenent.nl
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Turned pro	1995
Retired	2009
Achievements and titles
Personal best	1997 Elfstedentocht

Henk Angenent (born 1 November 1967) is a retired Dutch speed skater, specialising in marathon skating and the longer distances. Angenent won the Elfstedentocht on 4 January 1997, outsprinting favourite Erik Hulzebosch at the finish.

On 12 March 2004 in Calgary, Angenent skated 41.669 km in one hour, which was the world record in this event until 15 March 2007, when Casper Helling skated 300 metres more. The previous world record was Roberto Sighel's 41.041 km from 24 March 1999. He won a 4th place at the 10,000 metres of the 2003 World Single Distance Championships, after Bob de Jong, Carl Verheijen and Lasse Sætre. Earlier that year he became Dutch champion on the same distance at the KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships.

Angenent is a farmer, he grows mainly Brussels sprouts. After winning the Elfstedentocht many interviews were done with Angenent and this subject came up on many occasions. When marathon speedskating became more popular in the Netherlands and the Six Days of the Greenery were introduced, the overall leader of the race wears a Brussels sprout suit. So far he wore the suit himself once in the 2000–01 season. He wore the orange suit for the leader of the Essent Cup a total of 13 days. With his 21 career wins of speed skating marathons on artificial tracks he is ranked 11th together with Henk Portengen and K. C. Boutiette. He is however 3rd in the ranking of still active skaters, behind Jan Maarten Heideman and Cédric Michaud.

Results

Year	Dutch Distance	World Distance
2003	7th 5000 m 10000 m	4th 10000 m
2004	20th 5000 m 10th 10000 m	-
2005	14th 5000 m 4th 10000 m	-
2006	13th 5000 m 6th 10000 m

Personal bests

Personal records
Men's speed skating
Event	Result	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	41.59	8 February 2005	Thialf, Heerenveen
1,000 m	1:19.54	18 November 2005	Thialf, Heerenveen
1,500 m	1:56.89	17 November 2005	Thialf, Heerenveen
3,000 m	3:56.94	18 November 2005	Thialf, Heerenveen
5,000 m	6:35.73	11 January 2005	Thialf, Heerenveen
10,000 m	13:21.03	19 February 2005	Thialf, Heerenveen
41,669 m	60:00.00	12 March 2004	Olympic Oval, Calgary	World record (until 15 March 2007)

Angenent has an Adelskalender score of 160.177 points.

External links

• World records for one hour skating
• Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database