Thijsje Oenema
# Thijsje Oenema

Thijsje Oenema (born 6 June 1988) is a Dutch speed skater and "short-track sprinter". She is specialised on the short distances.

Oenema skates for the VPZ skating team and is a member for skating club S.T.D. Sint Nicolaasga. Her breakthrough was during the 2009 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships, winning the bronze medal at the 500 m. This was very surprising because in the 2007–08 season she was not able to skate because of Pfeiffer's disease. With this third place she qualified for the first time for the World Cup.

Oenema also showed that season that she is also very strong at the 100 m. In 2006 and 2007 she was already the Dutch champion at this distance. In 2009, she regained her title she lost in the year before by winning on the ice of Lekkerkerk. In the same season she took the title at the Dutch championships supersprint.

Although her start of the season 2010 was weak, she managed to qualify for the Olympics in Vancouver by beating Marianne Timmer in a skate-off.

## Speed skating

### Results

| Season | Dutch SD | Dutch Sprint | World SD | World Sprint | World Cup | Olympics |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2005–06 | 16th 2x500 m | Did not participate | Not held | Did not participate | Did not participate | Did not participate |
| 2006–07 | 11th 2x500 m | Did not participate | Did not participate | Did not participate | Did not participate | Not held |
| 2007–08 | 13th 2x500 m 16th 1000 m | Did not participate | Did not participate | Did not participate | Did not participate | Not held |
| 2008–09 | 2x500 m | 16th | Did not participate | Did not participate | 100 m 17th 500 m | Not held |
| 2009–10 | 4th 2x500 m 9th 1000 m | Did not finish | Not held | Did not participate | 8th 500 m | 15th 2x500 m |
| 2010–11 | 5th 2x500 m 18th 1000 m | 5th | Did not participate | Did not participate | 11th 500 m | Not held |
| 2011–12 | 2x500 m 1000 m 19th 1500 m | | 2x500 m | 10th | 5th 500 m 13th 1000 m | Not held |
| 2012–13 | 2x500 m 13th 1000 m | 4th | 5th 2x500 m | 4th | 6th 500 m | Not held |
| 2013–14 | 2x500 m 10th 1000 m | | Not held | 7th | 8th 500 m 21st 1000 m 28th GWC | Did not participate |
| 2014–15 | 2x500 m 11th 1000 m | | 4th 2x500 m | 9th | 7th 500 m 29th 1000 m 29th GWC | Not held |

### Medals

| Championship | | | |
| - | - | - | - |
| Dutch Single Distance | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Dutch Sprint | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| World Single Distance | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| World Cup | 0 | 1 | 0 |
