Ria Visser

Ria Visser
	Ria Visser in 1984
Personal information
Born	20 July 1961; Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Speed skating
Women's speed skating
Representing the Netherlands
Olympic Games

Adriana Johanna "Ria" Visser (born 20 July 1961) is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands[1][2]

Visser participated in six World Allround Speed Skating Championships, performing best at her first attempt in 1979, when she came in 6th. In 1979 and 1980 she won the bronze medal in the World Junior Speed Skating Championships. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid she won the silver medal in the women's 1500 metres, finishing just behind her Dutch teammate Annie Borckink. At the 1984 Winter Olympics she raced three distances, but did not reach higher than a 13th place. Unlike in international events, Visser was very successful at the Dutch National Allround Championships, winning the event five times and coming in second twice. Only Stien Kaiser has been more successful at the national level.[2]

In the 1990s she became a TV commentator for the Dutch sports programme NOS Studio Sport.

Personal records

Ria Visser in 1983

Ria Visser in 1980

Event	Result	Date	Location
Personal records
Women's speed skating
500m	42.23	17 December 1983	Inzell
1000m	1:25.76	27 December 1981	Inzell
1500m	2:07.06	17 December 1983	Inzell
3000m	4:29.13	26 December 1984	Inzell
5000m	7:40.68	6 December 1987	Calgary

Results

Year	Dutch Distances	Dutch Allround	Dutch Sprint	EC Allround	Olympic games	WC Allround	WC Sprint
1979						6e
1980					1500m NF 3000m	14e	27e
1981		5e
1982				12e
1983			23e	12e		9e
1984			4e		30e 500m 13e 1500m 25e 3000m	11e
1985				4e
1986			18e	10e		9e
1987
1988	8e 1500m 3000m 5e 5000m	11e

References

"Ria Visser". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ria Visser". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[stats-1] "Ria Visser". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 25 August 2012.

[r1-2] Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ria Visser". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.