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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
Korea Herald
16-03-2025
- Sport
- Korea Herald
Veteran speed skater Lee Seung-hoon wins 1st world championships medal in 9 yrs
South Korean speed skater Lee Seung-hoon has claimed his first world championships medal in nine years at age 37. Lee captured the silver medal in the men's mass start at the International Skating Union World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships at Hamar Olympic Hall in Hamar, Norway, on Saturday, with a time of 7:56.52. Andrea Giovannini of Italy beat Lee by 0.05 second for the gold. Bart Swings of Belgium finished third in 7:56.69. This was Lee's first world championships medal since the mass start title at the 2016 competition in Kolomna, Russia. In Saturday's race, Lee stayed in the back of the pack early before moving to the front in the late stretches. He was overtaken by Giovannini over the final straight to take the silver medal. Lee is the most decorated South Korean speed skater in Olympic history, with six medals spread over four consecutive Winter Games from 2010 to 2022 -- including the gold medal in the 10,000 meters in 2010 and the mass start gold in 2018. Lee went through a dry spell after grabbing the mass start bronze medal at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics but has shown signs of life during the current 2024-2025 season. Lee helped South Korea to the men's team pursuit silver medal at the Asian Winter Games in China in February and then won the mass start title at an ISU World Cup stop in Poland later that month -- his first World Cup gold medal in a little over seven years. Lee will try to qualify for his fifth Winter Olympics, taking place next February in Italy. (Yonhap)
