Dai Dai Ntab
Dai Dai Ntab (born 17 August 1994) is a Dutch professional long track speed skater who specializes in the sprint distances.[1][2] He is a member of Team Plantina. He has a Senegalese father and a Dutch mother.
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Born | 17 August 1994 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sport | Speed skating |
| Event(s) | Sprint |
| Club | Team Reggeborgh |
| Coached by | Gerard van Velde |
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Career
At the 2016 Dutch Sprint Championships he finished 12th but won the second 500m.[3]
On 3 December 2016 he won the 500 m at the third World Cup of the 2016/17 season, held in Astana. It was his first World Cup win and in doing so he improved his personal record by 0.44s and set a new track record.[4][5]
He studied Communication and Marketing at the Johan Cruyff College in Groningen.[1]
Personal records
| Personal records[6] | ||||
| Men's speed skating | ||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500 meter | 34.15 | 9 December 2017 | Salt Lake City | |
| 1000 meter | 1:08.39 | 28 December 2020 | Heereneen | |
| 1500 meter | 1:50.56 | 22 March 2015 | Calgary | |
| 3000 meter | 4:24.35 | 8 October 2015 | Heerenveen | |
Source:[7]
Tournament overview
| Season | Dutch Championships Junior |
Dutch Championships Single Distances |
Dutch Championships Sprint |
World Championships Sprint |
World Championships Single Distances |
World Cup Classification GWC |
World Championships Junior |
European Championships Single Distances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2013–2014 |  500m[1]  500m[2] 8th 1000m 500m samalog | 16th 500m[1] 19th 500m[2] 18th 500m samalog |  500m 14th 1000m | |||||
| 2014–2015 | 6th 500m 16th 1000m | 4th 500m 24th 1000m 6th 500m 17th 1000m 18th overall | 29th 500m | |||||
| 2015–2016 | 4th 500m 13th 1000m | 10th 500m 20th 1000m 500m 14th 1000m 12th overall | ||||||
2016–2017 | 500m 10th 1000m | 500m 11th 1000m 500m 8th 1000m 4th overall | DQ 500m | 500m | ||||
| 2017–2018 | 500m 7th 1000m | 500m 4th 1000m 500m 4th 1000m overall | 8th 500m 41st 1000m | |||||
| 2018–2019 | 500m 6th 1000m | 500m 5th 1000m 500m 6th 1000m overall | 15th 500m 43rd 1000m | |||||
2019–2020 | 500m 1000m | 10th 500m 13th 1000m 6th 500m 11th 1000m 9th overall | 13th 500m Team sprint | 7th 500m 20th 1000m | 500m 6th 1000m | |||
| 2020–2021 | 500m 6th 1000m | 500m 6th 1000m 500m 6th 1000m overall |
World Cup overview
| Season | 500 meter | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015 | – | – | 1st(b) | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 2016–2017 | 4th(b) | 9th | 11th | | 4th | 12th | 14th | 12th | | | |||
| 2017–2018 | 5th | 19th | 17th | 8th | 13th | 4th | | 15th | 8th | 6th | | ||
| 2018–2019 | 15th | 5th | 7th | 12th | 9th | DQ | 5th | | – | – | – | ||
| 2019–2020 | | 9th | 15th | 11th | 5th | 14th | 7th | 6th | |||||
| Season | 1000 meter | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015 | ||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | ||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | ||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | – | – | 16th(b) | 5th(b) | – | – | ||||||
| 2019–2020 | 10th | 9th | 14th | – | – | |||||||
| Season | Team sprint | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015 | ||||||||||||
| 2016–2017 | ||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | ||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | ||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | – | – | – | – | 5th | |||||||
Source:[11]
- GWC = Grand World Cup
- – = Did not participate
- DQ = Disqualified
- (b) = World Cup Division B
Trivia
- His heroes are Usain Bolt en Shani Davis.
- During his youth, he wrote his own name incorrectly as Daidai, to avoid the alternate spelling of Dai-Dai.[12]
References
- Lisette van der Geest (27 December 2015). "Profiel: Schaatser met intrigerende naam" (in Dutch). Schaatsen.nl.
- "Dai Dai Ntab". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- "KPN NK Sprint 2016 – Klassement Heren Sprint" (PDF). schaatsen.nl (in Dutch). KNSB.
- "ISU World Cup Harbin – Result 500m Men Division A". isu.org. International Skating Union (ISU). 3 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- "Three maiden wins on day 2 of Astana World Cup". isu.org. International Skating Union (ISU). 3 December 2016. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017.
- "Dai Dai Ntab". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- https://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=17&s=18679
- "Dai Dai Ntab". SpeedSkatingNews.
- "Dai Dai Ntab". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- "Dai Dai Ntab". schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
- https://app.isuresults.eu/events
- "Dai Dai Ntab zal eerste NK-titel in vol Thialf niet snel vergeten".
External links
- Dai Dai Ntab at the International Skating Union
- Dai Dai Ntab in SpeedSkatingBase.eu
- Dai Dai Ntab at SpeedSkatingNews.info
- Dai Dai Ntab at SpeedSkatingStats.com
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