Ellia Smeding (born 16 March 1998) is a British long track speed skater.
She competed at the 2020 European Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
[3] Born in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, Smeding spent her early childhood in Oxfordshire before her family temporarily moved to the Netherlands (her father is Dutch, her mother English) so the children could learn Dutch.
They stayed there, and Smeding, already into rollerblading, acquired a passion for speed skating.
She is in a relationship with fellow British-Dutch Olympic speed skater Cornelius Kersten; based in Heerenveen, the couple have a coffee brewing business which helps to fund their sporting lives.