Overview
- Jenning de Boo secured the Dutch Olympic berth in the 500 meters with the day’s best 33.96 after two races at the Heerenveen OKT.
- The 500 meters at the OKT was contested twice with the best single time counting, which guarantees only the winner’s Olympic place while the next spots depend on the remaining results; at the Games the 500 is skated once.
- Stijn van de Bunt earned an Olympic ticket by winning the 5,000 meters in 6:09.30, a breakthrough coming after a midseason bike crash in Andorra and limited training.
- Merijn Scheperkamp finished fifth on the 500 meters in 34.63 and must place in the top three on the 1,000 meters to make the team.
- Sebas Diniz’s 34.14 and Joep Wennemars’s 34.48 were the next best 500‑meter times behind De Boo, with final Olympic allocation for those spots still to be determined by broader OKT outcomes.