Merijn Scheperkamp (born 6 March 2000) is a Dutch
speed skater
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ...
who specializes in the sprint distances.
Career
Scheperkamp won the bronze medal at inline skating at the
2018 Youth Olympic Games
The 2018 Summer Youth Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud de 2018), officially known as the III Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Buenos Aires 2018, were an international sports, cultural, and educational event held ...
in Buenos Aires. He made his
ISU Speed Skating World Cup The ISU Speed Skating World Cup is a series of international speed skating competitions, organised annually by the International Skating Union since the winter of 1985–86. Every year during the winter season, a number of competitions on different ...
debut in October 2021 at the
Ice Arena Tomaszów Mazowiecki in Poland where he finished ninth in the first heat.
He qualified for the
500m at the
2022 Winter Olympics by winning the Dutch Olympic qualifying event.
Scheperkamp is part of the junior team of Team Jumbo-Visma.
Personal records
Tournament overview
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Medals won
References
External links
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2000 births
Living people
Dutch male speed skaters
Sportspeople from Hilversum
Speed skaters from North Holland
Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands
World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
21st-century Dutch people