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Merel Conijn

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  • Date of birth19 Oct 2001
  • HeightN/A
  • ProfessionAthlete
  • HometownHeerenveen
  • Place of birthAmsterdam
  • Start skatingN/A
  • Club Team Albert Heijn Zaanlander
  • HobbiesN/A
  • LanguagesDutch, English
  • CoachN/A
  • Former CoachN/A
  • General Interest
- Bronze in 3000m and 5000m at 2025 ISU World Single Disstance Championships in Hamar

- Silver in 5000m at ISU World Cup #3 in 2024-2025 season

- Silver in 3000m at ISU World Cup #5 in 2024-2025 season

- 4th in ISU European Allround Championships 2025 in Heerenveen

(isu-skating.com/speed-skating December 2025)
"I like challenges and skating is really my passion and my life for me. It's what I do with incredible pleasure and I think that's the basis for success. You have to do something where your heart is, because otherwise it won't work." (sportnieuws.nl, 01 Jan 2022)
Her training was disrupted at the start of the 2022/23 season after she contracted COVID-19. (nhnieuws.nl, 22 Oct 2022)
To compete at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan-Cortina. (schaatsen.nl, 30 Mar 2022)
STUDY PLANS
She studied for a degree in communications at the University of Amsterdam but decided to quit in 2021 to focus on her athletic career. She plans to go back to studying because she says she needs stimulus outside of skating. "I am quite a thinker by nature, so my brain needs that stimulation outside of sports. I'm leaning towards biology or psychology now. It may not be completely in line with my previous study, but I think that stimulation will help me a lot as an athlete in the short term. If I think a lot, I prefer to think about something that really benefits me.” (parool.nl, 28 Oct 2023)