Jutta Leerdam

Leerdam became the junior world champion at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland. The following year, at the 2018 Championships in Salt Lake City, United States, she finished second behind compatriot Joy Beune.^[1]

During the 2017–18 season, she won the ISU Junior World Cup competition in the 1000m and 1500m events. She also became the Dutch junior sprint champion.

In 2018, she turned professional and became a member of Team IKO.^[2]

Since turning professional Leerdam won the 1000m world title twice (2020 and 2023), silver at that distance at the 2022 Winter Olympics and also the gold medal at the World Sprint Championships in 2022. Leerdam joined Team Jumbo-Visma in 2022 and is under contract until 2024.^[3]

Leerdam was named after the German windsurfing world champion Jutta Müller by her father, a windsurfing enthusiast. Her great-niece Dione Voskamp is also a speed skater.^[4] Leerdam studies commercial economics at the Johan Cruyff Academy of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen.^[5]

Leerdam was in a relationship with Dutch speed skater Koen Verweij beginning in 2017.^[6] On 1 August 2022, she announced on her Instagram page that they had broken up.^[7] Leerdam and American social media personality and professional boxer Jake Paul publicly confirmed being a couple on 3 April 2023, after the two had gotten in touch via Instagram a few months earlier.^[8]

Season	Dutch Championships Single Distances	Dutch Championships Sprint	European Championships Sprint	World Championships Sprint	World Championships Single Distances	Olympic Games	World Championships Allround Junior	World Cup Junior	World Cup GWC	European Championships Single Distances
2016–17	HEERENVEEN 14th 500m 12th 1000m 15th 1500m						HELSINKI 500m 1500m 7th 1000m 3000m overall team pursuit
2017–18	HEERENVEEN 11th 500m 10th 1000m 14th 1500m						SALT LAKE CITY 500m 1500m 1000m 3000m overall team pursuit team sprint	500m 1000m 1500m overall
2018–19	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	COLLALBO 4th 500m 1000m 4th 500m 1000m 4th overall	HEERENVEEN 16th 500m 6th 1000m 15th 500m 4th 1000m 10th overall	INZELL 16th 500m 5th 1000m team sprint				20th 500m 15th 1000m
2019–20	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m			HAMAR 15th 500m 1000m 7th 500m 1000m 5th overall	SALT LAKE CITY 8th 500m 1000m team sprint				24th 500m 4th 1000m team sprint	HEERENVEEN DNS 500m 1000m
2020–21	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall		HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m				28th 500m 18th 1000m
2021–22	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m			HAMAR 5th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall		BEIJING 5th 500m 1000m			20th 500m 15th 1000m	HEERENVEEN 1000m
2022–23	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 1500m	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	HAMAR 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall		HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 7th 1500m				4th 500m 1000m 22nd 1500m

Source:^[10][11][12]

• Events for World Championship Junior Allround: 500m, 1500m, 1000m, 3000m
• Events for sprint championships: 500m, 1000m, 500m, 1000m

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• Jutta Leerdam at the International Skating Union
• Jutta Leerdam in SpeedSkatingBase.eu (archived)
• Jutta Leerdam at SpeedSkatingNews.info
• Jutta Leerdam at SpeedSkatingStats.com
• Jutta Leerdam at Olympics.com
• Jutta Leerdam at Olympedia
• Jutta Leerdam at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
• Jutta Leerdam at IMDb