Jutta Leerdam

Jutta Leerdam is a Dutch speed skater, born on 30 December 1998, who specializes in long-track sprint events. She won the gold medal in the 1000 m at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, setting an Olympic record, and also won the silver medal in the 500 m at those Games. At the 2022 Beijing Olympics she took silver in the 1000 m. She is the 2022 World Sprint Champion over the 500 and 1000 metres combined, the 2020 and 2023 World Single Distance Champion in the 1000 m, and a World Single Distance Champion in the team sprint in 2019 and 2020. She became junior world champion at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Helsinki, turned professional in 2018 as a member of Team IKO and joined Team Jumbo-Visma in 2022. Leerdam grew up in the Westland region in the Netherlands and, after trying field hockey, gymnastics and tennis, switched to speed skating at the age of eleven at her father's suggestion.