A completely covered skating rink will soon be available. Can Haarlem, for example, organize an Allround National Championship? “Theoretically it could be possible, but of course we don’t have grandstands here. We could just about have a marathon, with about 1,000 to 1,200 spectators. And that is already happening. Then there are about two rows deep along the track “, says Kleefman.
“But we shouldn’t want it either. There is only one track where all this is possible and that is and remains Thialf. We are there for recreational sports.”
The ice rink has had a successful season. “We had about 180,000 to 185,000 paying visitors. That’s about a thousand per day,” Kleefman quickly calculates.
The very last Bert Grotenhuis Cup
The traditional competition for the Bert Grotenhuis Bokaal will be back on the program in Haarlem next Friday. In other words: who skates the most laps between opening and closing time? So between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. It is the twentieth and also the very last edition. An annual war of attrition in the last weeks of the skating season. Several dozen skaters are participating, but you can still register.