Kai Verbij

Dutch speed skater

Kai Verbij

Verbij in 2016

Personal information

Nationality

Dutch

Born

(1994-09-25) 25 September 1994 (age 29)
Leiderdorp, Netherlands

Height

1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

81 kg (179 lb)

Sport

Country

Netherlands

Sport

Speed skating

Event

1000 m

Club

Team Jumbo-Visma

Medal record

Men's speed skating

Representing the Netherlands
World Sprint Championships
	2017 Calgary	Sprint
	2022 Hamar	Sprint
	2016 Seoul	Sprint
	2018 Changchun	Sprint
	2022 Hamar	team sprint
World Single Distance Championships
	2019 Inzell	1000 m
	2019 Inzell	team sprint
	2020 Salt Lake City	team sprint
	2021 Heerenveen	1000 m
	2017 Gangneung	1000 m
European Championships
	2017 Heerenveen	Sprint
	2019 Collalbo	Sprint
	2022 Heerenveen	team sprint
	2020 Heerenveen	1000 m
	2022 Heerenveen	1000 m

Kai Verbij (born 25 September 1994) is a Dutch speed skater who is specialized in the sprint distances. His mother is Japanese, while his father is Dutch.

Career

Together with Ronald Mulder and Stefan Groothuis, Verbij won the team sprint event at the 2015–16 ISU Speed Skating World Cup event in Calgary on 14 November 2015.^[1] In January 2016 he won the title at the KNSB Dutch Sprint Championships.

Records

Personal records

Event	Result	Date	Location
Personal records^[2]
Speed skating
500 meter	34.13	9 December 2017	Salt Lake City
1000 meter	1:06.34	9 March 2019	Salt Lake City
1500 meter	1:45.41	22 March 2015	Calgary
3000 meter	3:53.70	9 December 2012	Inzell
5000 meter	6:56.25	18 December 2011	Inzell

World records

Nr.	Event	Points total	Date	Location	Notes
1.	World Sprint Championship	136.065	25–26 February 2017	Calgary	Current world record

Tournament overview

Season	Dutch Championships Single Distances	Dutch Championships Sprint	Dutch Championships Allround	European Championships Sprint	World Championships Sprint	World Championships Single Distances	Olympic Games	World Cup GWC	World Championships Junior	European Championships Single Distances
2011–12	HEERENVEEN 21st 500m 20th 1000m	HEERENVEEN 12th 500m 12th 1000m 13th 500m 13th 1000m 12th overall							OBIHIRO 500m 16th 3000m 1500m 18th 5000m 8th overall 10th 1000m 5th 1500m 17th 5000m team pursuit
2012–13	HEERENVEEN 14th 500m 18th 1000m 12th 1500m	GRONINGEN 15th 500m 13th 1000m 17th 500m 11th 1000m 13th overall	HEERENVEEN 6th 500m 22nd 5000m 9th 1500m DNQ 10000m 15th overall						COLLALBO 5th 500m 1000m 4th 1500m 6th team pursuit
2013–14	HEERENVEEN 15th 500m 12th 1000m 14th 1500m								BJUGN 500m 1000m 1500m 4th team pursuit
2014–15	HEERENVEEN 7th 500m 5th 1000m 7th 1500m	GRONINGEN 8th 500m 8th 1000m 11th 500m 9th 1000m 6th overall						41st 500m 13th 1000m 34th 1500m
2015–16	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m	HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall			SEOUL 500m 6th 1000m 6th 500m 4th 1000m overall	KOLOMNO 23rd 500m 7th 1000m		7th 500m 4th 1000m
2016–17	HEERENVEEN 5th 500m 1000m			HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	CALGARY 9th 500m 1000m 4th 500m 9th 1000m overall	GANGNEUNG 1000m		4th 500m 1000m
2017–18	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m				CHANGCHUN 7th 500m 1000m 11th 500m 1000m overall		GANGNEUNG 9th 500m 6th 1000m	7th 500m 1000m
2018–19	HEERENVEEN 5th 500m 1000m			COLLALBO 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall	HEERENVEEN 500m 10th 1000m 500m 6th 1000m 5th overall	INZELL team sprint 1000m		13th 500m 1000m
2019–20	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m				HAMAR 9th 500m 8th 1000m 5th 500m 5th 1000m 4th overall	SALT LAKE CITY 10th 500m 6th 1000m team sprint		12th 500m 1000m team sprint		HEERENVEEN 6th 500m 1000m
2020–21	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m	HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 4th 1000m 4th 500m 1000m overall		HEERENVEEN DNF 500m 1000m 500m DNQ 1000m NC overall		HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m		25th 500m 1000m
2021–22	HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m				HAMAR 4th 500m 4th 1000m 6th 500m 1000m overall team sprint		BEIJING 14th 500m 30th 1000m	17th 500m 5th 1000m		HEERENVEEN 4th 500m 1000m
2022–23		HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m 5th 500m 7th 1000m overall		HAMAR 4th 500m 4th 1000m 500m 4th 1000m 4th overall				47th 500m 41st 1000m

Source:^[3]^[4]^[5]

World Cup overview

	Season	500 meter
2014–2015	6th(b)	6th(b)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2015–2016	14th	12th	4th	16th	14th		5th	7th		4th	8th	8th
2016–2017		16th	4th	20th	15th	10th	11th			4th
2017–2018		4th	4th	12th	9th	6th		–	–	5th	6th
2018–2019	12th	4th	15th	4th	4th	10th	DNS	4th	–	–	–
2019–2020	5th	8th	14th	15th	9th	DQ	9th
2020–2021	DNF	2nd(b)	7th	–
2021–2022	8th	7th	8th	16th	11th	9th	–	–	7th	–
2022–2023	–	–	9th(b)	–	–	–

	Season	1000 meter
2014–2015	12th	4th	10th	12th	–	–	–
2015–2016	7th	6th		7th	5th	–
2016–2017	5th	18th	DNS	4th			11th
2017–2018				4th	–	–
2018–2019	5th			–
2019–2020	5th			8th
2020–2021
2021–2022	7th		5th	–	5th
2022–2023	–	–	7th	–	–	–

	Season	1500 meter
2014–2015	–	–	2nd(b)	–	–	–
2015–2016
2016–2017
2017–2018
2018–2019
2019–2020
2020–2021
2021–2022
2022–2023

	Team sprint
2014–2015
2015–2016
2016–2017
2017–2018
2018–2019
2019–2020	–	–
2020–2021
2021–2022
2022–2023

References

^ Michael Pavitt (14 November 2015). "Richardson-Bergsma breaks world record to beat team-mate Bowe to World Cup Speed Skating gold in Canada". Inside The Games.
^ "Kai Verbij". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
^ "Kai Verbij". SpeedSkatingNews.
^ "Kai Verbij". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
^ "Kai Verbij". schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 16 February 2021.

External links

Kai Verbij at the International Skating Union
Kai Verbij at Olympedia
Kai Verbij at Olympics.com
Kai Verbij at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)

World champions in men's 1000 m speed skating

1996: Sergey Klevchenya
1997: Ådne Søndrål
1998: Sylvain Bouchard
1999: Jan Bos
2000: Ådne Søndrål
2001: Jeremy Wotherspoon
2003–04: Erben Wennemars
2005: Even Wetten
2007–08: Shani Davis
2009: Trevor Marsicano
2011: Shani Davis
2012: Stefan Groothuis
2013: Denis Kuzin
2015: Shani Davis
2016: Pavel Kulizhnikov
2017: Kjeld Nuis
2019: Kai Verbij
2020: Pavel Kulizhnikov
2021: Kai Verbij
2023–24: Jordan Stolz

v t e World champions in men's team sprint
2019: Netherlands (Ronald Mulder, Kjeld Nuis, Kai Verbij) 2020: Netherlands (Dai Dai N'tab, Kai Verbij, Thomas Krol) 2023: Canada (Christopher Fiola, Laurent Dubreuil, Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu) 2024: Canada (Anders Johnson, Laurent Dubreuil, Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu)

v t e World champions in men's sprint speed skating
1970: Valery Muratov 1971: Erhard Keller 1972: Leo Linkovesi 1973: Valery Muratov 1974: Per Bjørang 1975: Aleksandr Safronov 1976: Johan Granath 1977–80: Eric Heiden 1981: Frode Rønning 1982: Sergey Khlebnikov 1983: Akira Kuroiwa 1984: Gaétan Boucher 1985–86: Igor Zhelezovski 1987: Akira Kuroiwa 1988: Dan Jansen 1989: Igor Zhelezovski 1990: Bae Ki-tae 1991–93: Igor Zhelezovski 1994: Dan Jansen 1995: Kim Yoon-man 1996–97: Sergey Klevchenya 1998: Jan Bos 1999–2000: Jeremy Wotherspoon 2001: Mike Ireland 2002–03: Jeremy Wotherspoon 2004–05: Erben Wennemars 2006: Joey Cheek 2007–08: Lee Kyou-hyuk 2009: Shani Davis 2010–11: Lee Kyou-hyuk 2012: Stefan Groothuis 2013–14: Michel Mulder 2015–16: Pavel Kulizhnikov 2017: Kai Verbij 2018: Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen 2019: Pavel Kulizhnikov 2020: Tatsuya Shinhama 2022: Thomas Krol 2024: Ning Zhongyan

World champions in men's sprint speed skating