Skating poster Het meer – 200 km on the Weissensee

by Sidney van den Boogaard

A mountain lake in Austria seen from above, with the tracks of every winter since 1989 on it. Each winner of the 200 kilometres on the Weissensee is a track on the ice, men above, women below: its length is the winning time, 24 mm per hour from the shore, a full lane the course record at that moment, open water a cancelled year and a dotted line a shortened race or a missing time. You read from Van Wijhe 5:40 and Pasveer 5:48 in 1989 to the records of 2000, Arjan Schreuder 5:11 and Gretha Smit 5:14, Petra Grimbergen's four wins in a row, Lisa van der Geest's 7:57 in 2017, and Harink and Tauber in 2026. Five times the lake stayed empty: snow, corona and rain. The full list sits below. For anyone who packs the skates every winter.

This work is part of the Roll of Honour collection: sports history as a data print. Each print takes one sport and turns its whole roll of honour, from the first edition to today, into one graphic image, every name and number cross-checked against two independent sources.

Independent work, not affiliated with or endorsed by any league, federation, team or athlete; the data comes from Wikipedia and other public sources. A great gift for the fan who knows their sport's results by heart, for the living room, the study or the clubhouse.