Kortebaanschaatsen

[2] In the first race held for women in 1805 in Leeuwarden won by Trijntje Pieters Westra, the women were "just as fast as the horses", which referred to a previous kortebaandraverij that had been held previously that week with sleighs instead of wheeled sulkies.

[3] The full list of women participants with their ages and addresses was published in an account by Evert Maaskamp.

A print was made that became popular, that was accompanied by another engraving with a commemorative descriptive text.

[3] The first Dutch national champions were for men Thijs Klompmaker (1926) and for women Sjoukje Bouma (1933).

With shorter and shorter periods of frost, fewer and fewer kortebaan sprint tournaments were held, which caused the creation of the indoor sprint alternative now known as KNSB Dutch Super Sprint Championships.