Thecla Maria Catharina "Thea" Limbach (born 27 February 1959) is a retired

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. ...

from the Netherlands. She competed at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

in the 500, 1000, 1500 and 3000 m and finished in 27th, 21st, 9th and 13th place, respectively. She finished third in the

KNSB Dutch Allround Championships The Dutch Allround Championships of speed skating, organised by the KNSB, is the official Dutch championship to determine the Dutch Allround champion, in contrast to the KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships The Dutch Single Distance Championsh ...

in 1982, 1984 and 1985; in 1983 she was third in the

KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships The Dutch Sprint Championships of speed skating, organised by the KNSB, is the official Dutch championship to determine the Dutch Sprint champion. The Sprint distance championships date back to 1969 for men and 1983 for women. Men's sprint Sourc ...

. Personal bests: *500 m – 42.6 (1983) * 1000 m – 1:24.12 (1985) * 1500 m – 2:09.59 (1986) * 3000 m – 4:33.96 (1985) * 5000 m – 7:59.68 (1985) In the 2000s she became Chef de Mission of the Dutch teams at the

European Youth Olympic Festival The European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) is a biennial multi-sport event for youth (14 to 18 years old) athletes from the 50 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees. The festival has a summer edition, held for the fir ...

and Paralympic Games (2004 and 2008). She works at the Zuyderzee Lyceum in

Emmeloord Emmeloord is the administrative centre of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Netherlands. In 2019, it had a population of 26,055. Overview At the heart of the Noordoostpolder, where the three main drainage canals Lemstervaart, Urk ...

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1959 births Living people Dutch female speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands Recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau People from Harderwijk Sportspeople from Gelderland 20th-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-speed-skating-bio-stub