Stien Kaiser Explained

Stien Kaiser
Headercolor:	d7ecff
Country:	Netherlands
Birth Date:	1938 5, df=y
Birth Place:	Delft, Netherlands
Death Place:	^[1]

Christina ("Stien") Wilhelmina Baas-Kaiser (20 May 1938 – 23 June 2022) was a Dutch speed skater.

Life

She was not selected for the 1964 Winter Olympics because of her 'old age' (25 at that time) but later turned out to be the first Dutch female world class speed skater. In both 1965 and 1966, she won bronze at the World Allround Championships. After having become World Allround Champion twice (in 1967 and 1968) – and also winning her 3rd and 4th Dutch Allround Championships those years – she participated at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Her two bronze medals – in the 1,500 m, behind Finnish skater Kaija Mustonen and Dutch compatriot Carry Geijssen, and in the 3,000 m behind compatriot Ans Schut and, once more, Kaija Mustonen – were a bit disappointing. Not she, but Geijssen (who not only won silver in the 1,500 m, but also gold in the 1,000 m) and Schut became the Dutch heroines of those Olympics.

Although she was still a formidable competitor in the years that followed, Kaiser was slightly surpassed at major championships by Atje Keulen-Deelstra, who was the same age as Kaiser. In 1972, by then married and 33 years old, Baas-Kaiser was no longer really considered to be a favourite, especially not after her disappointing 11th place at the European Allround Championships. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Baas-Kaiser originally was not meant to skate, but since fellow Dutch skater Trijnie Rep had disappointed in the 500 m (finishing 20th) and the 1,000 m (finishing 24th), Baas-Kaiser was given a chance in the 1,500 m and the 3,000 m. And she turned it into something beautiful: On the 1,500 m, she won silver behind Dianne Holum, but ahead of Atje Keulen-Deelstra, and in the 3,000 m two days later, she became Olympic Champion ahead of Holum and Keulen-Deelstra. She ended her skating career later that year with a silver medal at the World Allround Championships.

Nationally, she won the allround titles in 1964, 1965, 1967–1969, and 1971, finished second in 1970 and 1972, and third in 1966. In 1967, she was chosen the Dutch Sportswoman of the Year. She was a niece of the Olympic speed skater Kees Broekman.

Records

Over the course of her career, Baas-Kaiser skated nine world records and twenty-seven Dutch records:

World records!Distance!!Result!!Date!!Location 3,000 m 5:04.8 29 January 1967 Davos 3,000 m 4:56.8 5 March 1967 Inzell Mini combination 188.634 5 March 1967 Inzell 3,000 m 4:54.6 3 February 1968 Davos 1,000 m 1:31.0 3 March 1968 Inzell 1,500 m 2:15.8 15 January 1971 Davos 3,000 m 4:46.5 16 January 1971 Davos 1,000 m 1:29.0 16 January 1971 Davos Mini combination 182.817 16 January 1971 Davos ^[2]

Dutch records!Distance!!Result!!Date!!Location 3,000 m 5:36.4 25 January 1964 Amsterdam Mini combination 213.317 25 January 1964 Amsterdam 500 m 48.8 7 March 1964 Deventer 1000 m 1:37.3 8 March 1964 Deventer 3,000 m 5:29.9 8 March 1964 Deventer Mini combination 205.366 8 March 1964 Deventer 1500 m 2:30.8 2 January 1965 Amsterdam 3,000 m 5:23.1 3 January 1965 Amsterdam Mini combination 203.267 3 January 1965 Amsterdam 500 m 48.1 7 January 1967 Amsterdam 1500 m 2:30.4 7 January 1967 Amsterdam 1000 m 1:35.8 8 January 1967 Amsterdam 3000 m 5:16.5 8 January 1967 Amsterdam Mini combination 198.883 8 January 1967 Amsterdam 500 m 46.5 18 February 1967 Deventer 1500 m 2:23.0 18 February 1967 Deventer Mini combination 195.384 19 February 1967 Deventer 3,000 m 5:14.6 17 December 1967 Heerenveen 3,000 m 5:02.5 12 January 1969 Heerenveen Mini combination 194.100 12 January 1969 Heerenveen 1500 m 2:21.5 1 February 1969 Grenoble Mini combination 190.483 2 February 1969 Grenoble 1500 m 2:15.8 15 January 1971 Davos 1000 m 1:29.0 16 January 1971 Davos 3,000 m 4:46.5 16 January 1971 Davos Mini combination 182.817 16 January 1971 Davos Sprint combination 180.220 21 February 1971 Inzell ^[3] Note that Dutch records until the 1968 season only could be skated in the Netherlands^[4]

Personal records!Distance!!Result!!Date!!Location 500 m 44.81 4 March 1972 Heerenveen 1,000 m 1:29.0 16 January 1971 Davos 1,500 m 2:15.8 15 January 1971 3,000 m 4:46.5 16 January 1971 Davos Mini combination 182.817 16 January 1971 Davos

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Olympisch schaatskampioene Stien Kaiser (84) overleden . NU.nl . Dutch . 24 June 2022.
2. Bijlsma et al. 1997, pp. 432, 434, 438.
3. Bijlsma et al. 1997, pp. 462, 464.
4. Bijlsma et al. 1997, p. 448.