title: Bob de Jong
text: Bob Johannes Carolus de Jong (born 13 November 1976) is a Dutch former speed skater who specialized in long distances: five and ten kilometers.
  
  Speed skating career
  In 2006, he won the gold medal for the ten kilometer race at the Olympic Games in Turin, with a personal record of 13:01.57, beating world record holder Chad Hedrick and Carl Verheijen. He also skated in the men's 5000 m event and placed 6th. In 1998, he won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 m and 4th in the men's 5000 m. In 2010, he won the bronze medal in the men's 10,000 m. and in his fifth Olympics in 2014 he took his second Olympic Bronze in 10,000 m event.
  
  After winning a bronze medal in the 10,000 m at the 2010 Olympic Games, de Jong, at age 37, won another bronze medal at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi in the 10,000 m becoming the oldest male competitor in 86 years to win speed skating medal at the Olympics.
  
  Records
  
  Personal records
  
  Source: SpeedskatingResults.com
  
  De Jong has a score of 149.086 on the adelskalender. His highest ranking was 4th between 17 March 2001 and 20 October 2001.
  
  World records
  
  World records skated at sea level venues (unofficial)
  
  Tournament overview
  
   WD = withdrew
   NC = no classification
   DQ = disqualified
   DNS = did not start
  source:
  
  World Cup
  
   * = 10000 meter
  Source:
  
  Medals won
  
  References
  
  External links
  
   
   Personal records 
   Bob de Jong at SpeedSkatingStats.com
   Bob de Jong at SchaatsStatistieken.nl 
   
   
   
  
  1976 births
  Dutch male speed skaters
  Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
  Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
  Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
  Speed skaters at the 2014 Winter Olympics
  Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands
  Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
  Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
  Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
  Olympic medalists in speed skating
  Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
  Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
  Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
  World record setters in speed skating
  People from Kaag en Braassem
  Living people
  World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
  Sportspeople from South Holland
  20th-century Dutch people
  21st-century Dutch people
  Olympic coaches