Women
NED
Avalon Aardoom
NED- Date of birth16 Oct 1997
- Height1700 CM
- ProfessionAthlete
- Home townHeerenveen
- Place of birthDordrecht
- Start skating / Club She took up short track at age eight in Den Haag, Netherlands. / Hardrijvereniging Den Haag - Westland [HVHW]: Netherlands
- HobbiesDrawing, painting, baking. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018)
- languagesDutch, English
- other nameAv (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018)
- General Interest
- Sport Specific Information
"Quitting is not an option." (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018)
Korean short track skater Choi Min-Jeong. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018)
Her family. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018)
A concussion ruled her out of the 2019 World Cup events in Dresden, Germany, and Turin, Italy. (schaatsen.nl, 21 Jan 2019)
To win a medal at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018; schaatsen.nl, 09 May 2018)
Finishing in second place in the overall competition at the 2018 Dutch Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands. (schaatsen.nl, 09 May 2018)
HEART SURGERY
In 2014 she underwent heart surgery. "I was born with supraventricular tachycardias, or SVT syndrome, which often made my heart go wild. My heartbeat could shoot up to 250 to 300 beats per minute at certain times. I was not able to train properly until I was 16 because it happened quite often. If your heartbeat goes so fast, you get so tired that you just want to lie down or sleep all day. This was very frustrating and it limited me in my development." (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018; schaatsen.nl, 09 May 2018; dordtsport.nl, 29 Jan 2016)
In 2014 she underwent heart surgery. "I was born with supraventricular tachycardias, or SVT syndrome, which often made my heart go wild. My heartbeat could shoot up to 250 to 300 beats per minute at certain times. I was not able to train properly until I was 16 because it happened quite often. If your heartbeat goes so fast, you get so tired that you just want to lie down or sleep all day. This was very frustrating and it limited me in my development." (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018; schaatsen.nl, 09 May 2018; dordtsport.nl, 29 Jan 2016)
She puts her right skate on before her left skate. (Athlete, 13 Nov 2018)
She trains at the Regional Talent Centre in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
"My aunt went to the Olympic Winter Games in short track. My mother did it too, so it was obvious that I was going to do it as well."
Jeroen Otter [national], NED