Mats Stoltenborg
Netherlands
| Sport | Speed Skating | |
| NOC | Netherlands | |
| Born | 10 Oct 1992 | |
| Gender | Men |
| Residence | Netherlands | |
| Higher education | Physiotherapy - University of Applied Sciences Leiden: Netherlands | |
| Occupation | Athlete | |
| Languages | Dutch |
| Personal Bests | Event | Record | Date | Location | ||
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Personal Bests | ||||||
| Event | Record | Date | Location | |||
| 500m | 40.82 | 05 Dec 2015 |  Heerenveen |
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| 1000m | 1:29.19 | 21 Oct 2008 |  Inzell |
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| 1500m | 1:56.16 | 05 Dec 2015 | Heerenveen |
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| 5000m | 6:20.84 | 15 Oct 2016 | Inzell |
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| 10000m | 13:06.38 | 30 Dec 2016 | Heerenveen |
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Sport Specific Information
Sport Specific Information
| Club / Team | Team Jumbo-Visma: Netherlands |
General Interest
General Interest
| Other sports | He has competed in roller speed skating at national level in the Netherlands. (inschrijven.schaatsen.nl, 20 Aug 2022; Instagram profile, 16 May 2022) |
Sport Specific Information
Sport Specific Information
| Reason for choosing this sport | His mother had skated and encouraged him to take up the sport. "When I was age 15, I could skate pretty well, but I wasn't competitive in long track. That's why I started skating marathons." | |
| Name of coach | Peter de Vries [club], NED | |
| When and where did you begin this sport? | He began skating at age nine. |
General Interest
General Interest
| Other information | FURTHER EDUCATION After he studied for a bachelor's degree in physiotherapy at the University of Applied Sciences Leiden, he completed a master's degree in policy, communication and organisation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 2015 and 2017. He has visited schools to speak about goal-setting, which he relates to his own studies and sporting career. "In our sport you see many people who quickly choose skating and have a specific goal. I couldn't commit 100% to skating until I got my diploma. I continued to set goals until I actually became a full-time athlete. And now I'm tackling that again in sport. I try to give them the insight that they must have a dream, a goal. In skating, it is often about the Olympic Games and people think in periods of four years. But how can you start such a long process well if you have no smaller intermediate steps? It is intangible, you become directionless." (LinkedIn profile, 19 Oct 2023; schaatsen.nl, 27 Jun 2023) |
Social Media
Social Media
| www.facebook.com/mats.stoltenborg | twitter.com/mats92 |