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South China Morning Post
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Who is Joy Beune, world champion speed skater and Playboy Netherlands cover girl? The Dutch athlete says she took the chance to boost her sport as well as her self-image
Last year, Playboy Netherlands debuted a new blonde bombshell on the cover of its December issue, and it proved so popular they had to order a reprint. The surprise is that the woman posing nude is not a model but 2024 women's World Allround Speed Skating Champion, Joy Beune. The 25-year-old Dutch skater, who bagged further individual and team world titles at the World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships in March, posed in nothing but a pair of gloves, radiating a confident glow but never expecting that her shoot would attraction so much attention. Advertisement 'I expected a lot of criticism, but I only hear nice messages from everyone around me and that they think it's incredibly cool,' she told Bild. So, what else do we know about Joy Beune? She started ice skating young Joy Beune of the Netherlands with the silver medal for the women's 1,500 metres at the ISU World Cup Speed Skating in Beijing, in November 2024. Photo: AP Born in the town of Borne, Beune started skating at a very young age. The sport interested her in junior school, and she also took up cycling and rollerblading in the off-season, per Friends in Europe. By the age of 18, she was a world junior champion, winning the title in Salt Lake City, USA and setting several world records. Last year's world title also earned her recognition from her hometown of Borne with an award and even pastries with her picture on them. Beune is now aiming for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan. She struggled with her body image
NBC Sports
13-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Joy Beune leads winners, Martina Sablikova ties medal record to open speed skating worlds
HAMAR, Norway — Joy Beune confirmed she's the new Dutch distance queen, while Czech Martina Sablikova won a record-tying 27th career medal to open the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships. Beune won the 3000m in 4:00.39 to overtake the 37-year-old Sablikova by 18 hundredths on Thursday at the Viking Ship. Beune, 25, won the 5000m at the 2024 Worlds and has become the Netherlands' top women's distance skater following the retirement of triple 2022 Olympic gold medalist Irene Schouten last year. Sablikova, who made her Olympic debut in 2006 and won her first world medal in 2007, plans to retire after next season. She tied German Claudia Pechstein's record for career world medals in individual events and has won a 3000m medal at each of the last 13 World Championships dating to 2009. SPEED SKATING WORLDS: Full Results | Broadcast Schedule Dutchwoman Ireen Wüst holds the overall record of 31 world medals — 19 individual and 12 coming in the team pursuit. Another Dutchwoman, Merel Conijn, earned bronze Thursday, one hundredth ahead of Norwegian Ragne Wiklund. Conijn, 23, is making her world single distances championships debut. Later, Sander Eitrem won the men's 5000m for his first world title. He was followed by Dutchman Beau Snellink, who earned his first individual world medal, and Poland's Vladimir Semirunniy, who took bronze in his senior world debut. The U.S. took bronze in the men's team sprint with Austin Kleba, Cooper McLeod and Zach Stoppelmoor. The team sprint is not on the Olympic program. Worlds continue Friday with the women's and men's team pursuits and 500m starting at 2 p.m., live on Peacock. American Erin Jackson is the reigning Olympic women's 500m champion. American Jordan Stolz is the two-time reigning world 500m champion. The U.S. men are the world record holders in the team pursuit. Nick Zaccardi,
