The Elfstedentocht (Dutch pronunciation: [ɛl(ə)fˈsteːdə(n)tɔxt]; West Frisian: Alvestêdetocht [ɔlvəˈstɛːdətɔχt], English: Eleven cities tour) is a long-distance...

the 11 cities of Friesland, a challenge which eventually led to the Elfstedentocht. The first known speed skating competition for women was in Heerenveen...

before July 1 preceding the skating season. The Netherlands is home of Elfstedentocht, a 200 km distance skating race of which the tracks leads through the...

Dutch speedskater primarily known as the winner of the Elfstedentocht of 1963. This Elfstedentocht became known as "The hell of '63" when only 69 of the...

marathon swimmer born in Alkmaar. In 2019 Van der Weijden swam the Elfstedentocht for charity. He raised more than €6.1 million. Van der Weijden was known...

skate marathons on natural ice became the Alternative Elfstedentocht. The Alternative Elfstedentocht races take part in other countries, such as Austria...

of the 1956 Elfstedentocht. He started a skating shop in Ter Aar. Lenie van der Hoorn-Langelaan (1948), winner of the 1985 Elfstedentocht, the first women's...

Also, Leeuwarden has been a UNESCO City of Literature since 2019. The Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour), an ice skating tour passing the eleven cities...

by Steven de Jong [nl]. The film is based on the 1963 edition of the Elfstedentocht, a long-distance ice skating tour in the Netherlands. This 1963 edition...

first successful ascent of the mountain. "Signal 30" "Night Mail" "Elfstedentocht" (Record Store Day single; 11 November 2013) "Gagarin" – 1 December...

and 2001. During the last held Elfstedentocht in 1997 she finished second. She also won the alternative Elfstedentocht - skated in Finland - in 1998,...

freshwater canals to freeze hard, the province holds its traditional Elfstedentocht (Eleven cities tour), a 200-kilometre (120 mi) ice skating tour. A traditional...

Bolsward is one of the eleven Frisian cities in which the ice skating Elfstedentocht, an ice skating marathon, is held. Because the marathon depends on the...

Bethlehem, Palestina. Bartlehiem is especially well-known due to the Elfstedentocht for ice skaters, who have to pass through the hamlet twice. Coming from...

November 1958) is a Dutch former speed skater who won the rarely raced Elfstedentocht twice in a row, in 1985 and 1986. Van Benthem, a farmer from Leeuwte...

a population of 950 in January 2017. It is one of the stops on the Elfstedentocht (English: "eleven cities tour"), an ice skating contest that occurs...

world record in one-hour skating, at 32,370 m in 1906, and won the Elfstedentocht in 1912 and 1917. De Koning came from a speed skating family. His brother...

author Reinier Paping (1931–2021), speedskater, the winner of the 1963 Elfstedentocht better known as "the hell of '63" Anna Charlotte Ruys (1898–1977), professor...

"Defensie legt testbrug aan over de Harlingervaart voor een eventuele Elfstedentocht". Leeuwarder Courant (in Dutch). 7 March 2020. Retrieved 1 December...

speed skating marathon organisation and founder of the Alternative Elfstedentocht. His father, Bram Koopmans was the organiser for the Amstel Gold Race...

NHL for the Florida Panthers Evert van Benthem, speed skater, won the Elfstedentocht in 1985 and 1986 Wayne Van Dorp, former ice hockey player in the NHL...

the Alternative Elfstedentocht at the Weissensee in 5:13.57 hours. Overwinningen, schaatspeloton.nl Weissensee Alternatieve Elfstedentocht Archived 2007-09-28...

marathon speed skating champion three times and won the Alternative Elfstedentocht in Finland twice. In 2006 he won the Open Dutch nature track marathon...

of the House of Orange-Nassau, he participated in the 1986 Frisian Elfstedentocht, a 200-kilometre-long (120 mi) distance ice skating tour. He ran the...

Aldtsjerkster mar, a small lake which is an important point on the Elfstedentocht. In Dutch, the village is called Oudkerk ("Old Church"); Aldtsjerk is...

skaters, and was worn by several winners of the unpredictably-held Elfstedentocht (the frost has to be hard enough for the whole of the roughly 200 km...

was postponed: the Minister was ice-skating the 200-kilometre-long Elfstedentocht in the Dutch province of Friesland, which he skated twice in his life...

December 2024. (in Dutch) Gonnie Spijkstra, ""De Unox-associatie bij de Elfstedentocht is invented tradition"", Verse Reclame, 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2015...

January 2017. De Bullemolen in Lekkum marks the finishing point of the Elfstedentocht. The village was first mentioned in the 13th century as Lackum. The...

before July 1 preceding the skating season. Most famous race is the Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities) ice skating marathon (200 kilometers) on frozen canals...