Women
NED
Janneke Ensing
NED- Date of birth21 Sep 1986
- Height172 CM
- ProfessionAthlete, Nutritionist
- HometownEdam
- Place of birthGieten
- Start skatingShe began skating at age six in Gieten, Netherlands.
- Club PTH Groep / Schaatsshop Drenthe : Netherlands
- HobbiesCooking. (velonews.com, 03 Dec 2021)
- LanguagesDutch, English
- Other nameJannes (schaatsen.nl, 31 Aug 2017)
- CoachN/A
- Former CoachN/A
- General Interest
- Sport Specific Information
Competing at the world single distances championships in 2016. (Athlete, 01 Dec 2017)
"Follow your heart, it knows the way." (Athlete, 01 Dec 2017)
Dutch cyclist Marianne Vos. (Athlete, 01 Dec 2017)
Her parents. (Athlete, 01 Dec 2017)
In 2014 she broke two ribs in a crash while cycling training. (parkhotelvalkenburgct.nl, 14 Apr 2015)
NUTRITIONIST
She retired from professional road cycling in 2021 and planned to pursue a career as a nutritionist for children. "First, I did the studies as a gym teacher and I had this feeling for I want to learn more about it [nutrition]. If you know more about that I think you can get more from yourself. I wanted to learn more about food, and then maybe I can make a step higher. That's why I made the decision to learn it at school. It was more for myself at the time but, if you look around now, things are not going in a good way with the children. It's really painful for me to see it also in the Netherlands. Children are becoming too fat and doing nothing. I want to support them and give them advice on nutrition. I hope that I can do something." (velonews.com, 03 Dec 2021)
She retired from professional road cycling in 2021 and planned to pursue a career as a nutritionist for children. "First, I did the studies as a gym teacher and I had this feeling for I want to learn more about it [nutrition]. If you know more about that I think you can get more from yourself. I wanted to learn more about food, and then maybe I can make a step higher. That's why I made the decision to learn it at school. It was more for myself at the time but, if you look around now, things are not going in a good way with the children. It's really painful for me to see it also in the Netherlands. Children are becoming too fat and doing nothing. I want to support them and give them advice on nutrition. I hope that I can do something." (velonews.com, 03 Dec 2021)
She has represented the Netherlands in road cycling, and finished 69th in the road race at the 2018 World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria. She retired from professional road cycling in October 2021. (velonews.com, 03 Dec 2021; SportsDeskOnline, 18 Feb 2019; ad.nl, 01 Sep 2018; aaenhunze.nl, 2012)
Her father was a speed skating coach at the local club, and he encouraged her to try the sport.
