# Margot Boer

Margot Madelaine Boer (born 7 August 1985) is a Dutch former speed skater. She specialised in the 500, 1000 and 1500 m.

## Sports career

After spending a few years at local teams in the South Holland area, Boer was seen as one of the Netherlands main future talents and was offered a contract at the KNSB youth development team for the 2006–07 season. In the years before she already participated in several World Cup meetings.
Her first success in her new team was winning a gold medal in the 500 m at the 2007 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships. She won both races beating all the opponents, including favourites such as Marianne Timmer and Annette Gerritsen.

### 2010 Winter Olympics

Boer qualified to participate in all of her specialty distances at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She just missed out on medals in each of them, coming in 4th on both the 500 and 1500 m and 6th on the 1000 m, 0.22, 0.14, and 0.22 seconds from winning a bronze medal, respectively.

### 2014 Winter Olympics

On 11 February 2014, Boer won the bronze medal in the women's 500 m longtrack speedskating event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. This is the first medal at the Olympic women's 500 m longtrack speedskating event for the Netherlands. Two days later on 13 February 2014 Boer also won the bronze medal in the women's longtrack 1000 m event, making her the nation's first female skater to win Olympic medals on both sprint distances.

## Personal records

Personal records :
| Speed skating |||||
| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
| 500 m | 37.28 | 15 November 2013 | Calgary | |
| 1000 m | 1:13.77 | 17 November 2013 | Calgary | |
| 1500 m | 1:57.00 | 29 December 2013 | Heerenveen | |
| 3000 m | 4:35.70 | 26 February 2005 | Kardinge, Groningen | |
| 5000 m | 8:12.56 | 26 February 2006 | Kardinge, Groningen | |

## Tournament overview

| Season | Dutch Championships Single Distances | Dutch Championships Sprint | World Championships Sprint | World Championships Single Distances | Olympic Games | World Cup GWC |
| 2003–04 | HEERENVEEN 20th 1000m | | | | | |
| 2004–05 | ASSEN 8th 500m 14th 1000m | GRONINGEN 14th 500m 13th 1000m 15th 500m 17th 1000m 14th overall | | | | 35th 500m 20th 1000m |
| 2005–06 | HEERENVEEN 6th 500m 11th 1000m | ASSEN 4th 500m 1000m 8th 500m 6th 1000m 6th overall | | | | 14th 100m 18th 500m 18th 1000m |
| 2006–07 | ASSEN 500m 5th 1000m 5th 1500m | GRONINGEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | HAMAR 9th 500m 8th 1000m 11th 500m 6th 1000m 6th overall | SALT LAKE CITY 10th 2x500m 7th 1000m | | 19th 100m 8th 500m 12th 1000m 30th 1500m |
| 2007–08 | HEERENVEEN 500m 22nd 1000m | HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m 500m 6th 1000m overall | | | | 30th 500m 13th 1000m 26th 1500m |
| 2008–09 | HEERENVEEN 500m 7th 1000m 17th 1500m | GRONINGEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | MOSCOW 8th 500m 1000m 9th 500m 1000m 4th overall | VANCOUVER 6th 2x500m 1000m | | 21st 100m 500m 5th 1000m |
| 2009–10 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m | GRONINGEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | | | VANCOUVER 4th 500m*2 6th 1000m 4th 1500m | 500m 1000m 13th 1500m |
| 2010–11 | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 7th 1500m | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | HEERENVEEN 500m 7th 1000m 500m 18th 1000m overall | INZELL 7th 2x500m 6th 1000m | | 500m 1000m 17th 1500m |
| 2011–12 | HEERENVEEN 500m 4th 1000m 4th 1500m | HEERENVEEN 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | CALGARY 4th 500m 4th 1000m 4th 500m 4th 1000m 4th overall | HEERENVEEN 9th 2x500m 1000m | | 4th 500m 4th 1000m 16th 1500m |
| 2012–13 | HEERENVEEN 500m 7th 1000m | GRONINGEN 500m 4th 1000m 500m 5th 1000m overall | SALT LAKE CITY 8th 500m 9th 1000m 11th 500m 7th 1000m 7th overall | SOCHI 16th 2x500m | | 8th 500m 10th 1000m |
| 2013–14 | HEERENVEEN 500m 4th 1000m 7th 1500m | AMSTERDAM 500m 1000m 500m 1000m overall | NAGANO 500m 1000m 500m 1000m 4th overall | | SOCHI 500m*2 1000m | 6th 500m 5th 1000m 11th GWC |
| 2014–15 | HEERENVEEN 500m 8th 1000m 15th 1500m | GRONINGEN 500m 5th 1000m 500m 1000m overall | ASTANA 9th 500m 1000m 10th 500m 7th 1000m 7th overall | HEERENVEEN 11th 2x500m | | 8th 500m 19th 1000m 24th GWC |
| 2015–16 | HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m | HEERENVEEN 500m 5th 1000m 500m 5th 1000m overall | | KOLOMNA 11th 2x500m | | |
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