About
Maintenance
This page is maintained by Jeroen Heijmans (NED)
Thanks to...
- Felix Ogg (NED), for helping build the site
- Tjeerd van der Zee (NED), for the original idea and many remarks
- Nils Meland (NOR), for contributing World Cup results
- Bjarte Hetland (NOR), for contributing written skater biographies
- Rein Halbersma (NED), for many, many, corrections and suggestions
- Kees van Vugt (NED), for help with World Cup results and standings
- Remco Knooihuizen (NED), foreign alphabet advisor, contributor of results
- Arno Hoogveld (CAN), for the Oscar photo of Chad Hedrick
- All visitors that help me correcting and improving the site
In the biographies, those written by Bjarte Hetland are marked BH, while those written by me (Jeroen Heijmans) are marked JH.
Design
The design of the site is based on the Kubrick-blog style, which was created by Michael Heilemann.
Tools
This page uses Ruby on Rails and MySQL.
Contact
You can send any questions, remarks or additions to Jeroen Heijmans.
Improving
If you wish, you can help improving and extending this website. Pictures (of skaters or rink) or biographies would be very welcome, but new results, birth/deathdates of skaters, corrections, remarks are also very useful. See Contact information on how to contact me.
References
For creating this site, the following sources have been used:
- Olympische Winterspiele: Chamonix 1924 - Lillehammer 1994 [die Chronik], Volker Kluge, Sport und Gesundheit Verlag GmbH 1994
- Index of participants of international championships 1889-1992, Magne Teigen, World Speed Skating Statisticians Association 1992
- Schaatsseizoen, various editions, Stichting Schaatsseizoen
- Skøytenytt, various issues
- Various results pages on the internet, see also the links section