Dai Dai N'tab
Appearance
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Personal information | |
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Nationality | Dutch |
Born | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 17 August 1994
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Sport | |
Country | Netherlands |
Sport | Speed skating |
Event | Sprint |
Club | Team Reggeborgh |
Coached by | Gerard van Velde |
Dai Dai Ntab (born 17 August 1994) is a Dutch professional long track speed skater who specializes in the sprint distances.[1][2] He is a member of Team Plantina. He has a Senegalese father and a Dutch mother.
Career
At the 2016 Dutch Sprint Championships he finished 12th but won the second 500m.[3]
On 3 December 2016 he won the 500 m at the third World Cup of the 2016/17 season, held in Astana. It was his first World Cup win and in doing so he improved his personal record by 0.44s and set a new track record.[4][5]
He studied Communication and Marketing at the Johan Cruyff College in Groningen.[1]
Personal records
Personal records[6] | ||||
Men's speed skating | ||||
Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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500 meter | 34.15 | 9 December 2017 | Salt Lake City | |
1000 meter | 1:08.41 | 10 December 2017 | Salt Lake City | |
1500 meter | 1:50.56 | 22 March 2015 | Calgary | |
3000 meter | 4:24.35 | 8 October 2015 | Heerenveen |
Source:[7]
Tournament overview
Season | Dutch Championships Junior |
Dutch Championships Single Distances |
Dutch Championships Sprint |
World Championships Sprint |
World Championships Single Distances |
World Cup Classification GWC |
World Championships Junior |
European Championships Single Distances |
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2013–2014 |
![]() ![]() 8th 1000m ![]() |
16th 500m[1] 19th 500m[2] 18th 500m samalog |
![]() 14th 1000m |
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2014–2015 | 6th 500m 16th 1000m |
4th 500m 24th 1000m 6th 500m 17th 1000m 15th overall |
29th 500m | |||||
2015–2016 | 4th 500m 13th 1000m |
10th 500m 20th 1000m ![]() 14th 1000m 12th overall |
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2016–2017 |
![]() 10th 1000m |
![]() 11th 1000m ![]() 8th 1000m 4th overall |
DQ 500m |
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2017–2018 | ![]() 7th 1000m |
![]() 11th 1000m ![]() 8th 1000m ![]() |
8th 500m | |||||
2018–2019 | ![]() 6th 1000m |
![]() 5th 1000m ![]() 6th 1000m ![]() |
15th 500m 43rd 1000m |
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2019–2020 |
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10th 500m 13th 1000m 6th 500m 11th 1000m 9th overall |
13th 500m ![]() |
7th 500m 20th 1000m |
![]() 6th 1000m |
Source:[8]
World Cup overview
Season | 500 meter | ||||||||||||
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2014–2015 | – | – | 1st(b) | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
2016–2017 | 4th(b) | 9th | 11th | ![]() |
4th | 12th | 14th | 12th | ![]() |
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2017–2018 | 5th | 19th | 17th | 8th | 13th | 4th | ![]() |
15th | 8th | 6th | ![]() |
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2018–2019 | 15th | 5th | 7th | 12th | 9th | DQ | 5th | ![]() |
– | – | – | ||
2019–2020 | ![]() |
9th | 15th | 11th | 5th | 14th | 7th | 6th |
Season | 1000 meter | |||||||||||
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2014–2015 | ||||||||||||
2016–2017 | ||||||||||||
2017–2018 | ||||||||||||
2018–2019 | – | – | 16th(b) | 5th(b) | – | – | ||||||
2019–2020 | 10th | 9th | 14th | – | – |
Season | Team sprint | |||||||||||
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2014–2015 | ||||||||||||
2016–2017 | ||||||||||||
2017–2018 | ||||||||||||
2018–2019 | ||||||||||||
2019–2020 | – | – | – | – | 5th |
Source:[9]
- GWC = Grand World Cup
- – = Did not participate
- DQ = Disqualified
- (b) = World Cup Division B
Trivia
- His heroes are Usain Bolt en Shani Davis.
- During his youth, he wrote his own name incorrectly as Daidai, to avoid the alternate spelling of Dai-Dai.[10]
References
- ^ a b Lisette van der Geest (27 December 2015). "Profiel: Schaatser met intrigerende naam" (in Dutch). Schaatsen.nl.
- ^ "Dai Dai Ntab". speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ "KPN NK Sprint 2016 – Klassement Heren Sprint" (PDF). schaatsen.nl (in Dutch). KNSB.
- ^ "ISU World Cup Harbin – Result 500m Men Division A". isu.org. International Skating Union (ISU). 3 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ "Three maiden wins on day 2 of Astana World Cup". isu.org. International Skating Union (ISU). 3 December 2016. Archived from the original on 21 January 2017.
- ^ "Dai Dai Ntab". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
- ^ https://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=17&s=18679
- ^ https://www.speedskatingnews.info/en/data/skater/dai-dai-ntab/
- ^ https://app.isuresults.eu/events
- ^ "Dai Dai Ntab zal eerste NK-titel in vol Thialf niet snel vergeten".
External links
- Dai Dai N'tab at the International Skating Union
- Dai Dai N'tab in SpeedSkatingBase.eu (archived)
- Dai Dai N'tab at SpeedSkatingNews.info
- Dai Dai N'tab at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Dai Dai N'tab at TeamNL (archived) (in Dutch)