Jenning de Boo

De Boo in 2020
Personal information
Born	(2004-01-22) 22 January 2004 (age 22) Groningen, Netherlands
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Club	Team Reggeborgh
Medal record Men's speed skating Representing the  Netherlands Olympic Games 2026 Milano Cortina 500 m 2026 Milano Cortina 1000 m World Single Distances Championships 2025 Hamar 500 m 2024 Calgary Team sprint 2025 Hamar Team sprint 2025 Hamar 1000 m World Sprint Championships 2026 Heerenveen Sprint 2024 Inzell Sprint European Championships 2024 Heerenveen 500 m 2025 Heerenveen Sprint 2024 Heerenveen 1000 m 2024 Heerenveen Team sprint

Jenning de Boo (born 22 January 2004) is a Dutch speed skater who specializes in the sprint distances.

Career

De Boo started his career as a short track speed skater. He competed in the 500m and 1,000m short track events at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland. He won gold medal in the 500m at the 2022 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships. He switched to long track speed skating in 2023.^[1] At the 2023 World Junior Speed Skating Championships in February 2023 he won the silver medal in the team sprint.^[2] De Boo made his ISU Speed Skating World Cup debut in November 2023 at the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Japan where he finished tenth in the 1000m race.^[3] At the second World Cup race, held at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, he finished in seventh place in the 1000m race.^[4]

At the 2024 European Speed Skating Championships, held at Thialf in Heerenveen, Netherlands, De Boo won a bronze medal in the team sprint, a silver medal in the 1000 m and a gold medal in the 500 m.

At the 2026 Winter Olympics, de Boo won silver medals in both the 500m and 1000m races. In both races, he competed in the same heat as eventual gold medal winner Jordan Stolz.^[5][6]

De Boo is a member of Team Reggeborgh.

Personal records

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jenning De Boo.

• Jenning de Boo at the International Skating Union
• Jenning de Boo at SpeedSkatingNews.info
• Jenning de Boo at Olympics.com
• Jenning de Boo at Olympedia
• Jenning de Boo at InterSportStats
• Jenning de Boo at Milano Cortina 2026
• Jenning de Boo at Team Reggeborgh (in Dutch)
• Jenning de Boo at TeamNL (in Dutch)
• Jenning de Boo on Instagram