Suzanne Schulting
Suzanne Schulting is a Dutch short track speed skater. At the 2018 Winter Olympics she won Netherlands' first ever gold medal in short track speed skating and became one of the youngest ever Dutch Winter Olympic champions.Biography
Schulting took up short track speed skating when she was eight years old, in Thialf, Heerenveen. She won a gold medal in the 1500m event at the 2016 World Junior Championships in Sofia.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics she won a bronze medal in the women's 3000 metre relay and a gold medal in the women's 1000 metres. This was the first time the Netherlands had ever won a gold medal in short track speed skating. At twenty years old she is the second youngest Dutch gold medalist in any discipline at a Winter Olympics. In December 2018, she was named the Dutch Sportswoman of the Year.
Schulting studies at the Dutch Language Institute in Leiden.Achievements
