Jeltje van der Werf

Jeltje van der Werf
	Van der Werf, aged 80 (1932)
Personal information
Full name	Jeltje Gerrits van der Werf
Born	January 29, 1852
Died	December 6, 1934 (aged 82); Veenwoudsterwal[1]
Sport
Sport	Speed skating (kortebaanschaatsen)

Jeltje Gerrits van der Werf (29 January 1852 – 6 December 1934) was a Dutch kortebaanschaatsen speed skater.[2] She skated her first race in 1870 in Dokkum. She won her first race in 1871 in Oudkerk. A week later, she won individually in Oudkerk, and again in Leeuwarden. She won several more races. At the age of 24, she was called the fastest woman. In that period she married. However, twenty weeks after the marriage, her husband died. As a widow, she won over a thousand gulden in prize money and some prestigious races.

Van der Werf married again in 1887 with Auke Bosma. They had a son and a daughter together.

She was still competing at the age of 43, when a grandmother. At that age she lived in Veenwouden. At the age of 60, she fell during skating. The injury was severe, and she had to walk a year with a stick. When she was 80 she lived in Veenwoudsterwal. She died there on 6 December 1934 and was buried at the church in Veenwouden.

References

Rijpkema, J. H. (May 17, 1936). "Gedenkschrift bij het 50-jarig bestaan van den Frieschen IJsbond 1886-1936, alsmede iets over hardrijders en hardrijdsters in vroeger en later jaren". Noord-Nederlandsche Boekhandel. p. 54 – via Koninklijke Bibliotheek.

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[2] Rijpkema, J. H. (May 17, 1936). "Gedenkschrift bij het 50-jarig bestaan van den Frieschen IJsbond 1886-1936, alsmede iets over hardrijders en hardrijdsters in vroeger en later jaren". Noord-Nederlandsche Boekhandel. p. 54 – via Koninklijke Bibliotheek.