Editing Elfstedentocht (section)

=== Winners ===
The time taken for the winner to complete the course is given in hours and minutes.<ref name="History">{{cite web
  | title = History
  | publisher = Vereniging De Friesche Elf Steden [Association of the Eleven Fries Cities]
  | url = http://www.elfstedentocht.nl/nl/
  | language = nl
  | access-date = 2010-09-26
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110111003152/http://www.elfstedentocht.nl/nl/
  | archive-date = 2011-01-11
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> Although temperatures were sometimes above freezing on the day of the tour, all tours were preceded by many days of below-freezing temperatures.<ref>{{cite web
|url = http://www.knmi.nl/climatology/daily_data/selection.cgi
|title = Daily weather data for the Netherlands - Download
|publisher = Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut [Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute]
|access-date = 6 February 2012
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120126091831/http://www.knmi.nl/climatology/daily_data/selection.cgi
|archive-date = 26 January 2012
|url-status = dead
}}</ref>
[[File:Lekkum - Bullemolen met vlaggen.jpg|thumb|upright|''De Bullemolen'', along the canal "Ouddeel", near the finishing point of the ''Elfstedentocht'']]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Date
!Temperature<ref group="Note">Mean temperatures at [[de Kooy]], one of three Dutch meteorological stations for which records go back to 1910.</ref>
!Winner
!Time
!Distance
!Average<br>speed
!Years<br>since<br>previous<br>tour
|-
|2 January 1909
| align="center" |n/a 
| Minne Hoekstra
|13:50
|189&nbsp;km
|13.7&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |—
|-
|7 February 1912
| align="center" | +3.8&nbsp;°C
|[[Coen de Koning]] 
|11:40
|189&nbsp;km
|16.2&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |3
|-
|27 January 1917
| align="center" | -1.8&nbsp;°C
|[[Coen de Koning]] 
|9:53
|189&nbsp;km
|19.1&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |5
|-
|12 February 1929
| align="center" | -10.1&nbsp;°C
|Karst Leemburg
|11:09
|191&nbsp;km
|17.1&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |12
|-
|16 December 1933
| align="center" | -2.0&nbsp;°C
|Abe de Vries and<br> 
Sipke Castelein
|9:05
|195&nbsp;km
|19.7&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |5<!-- This is correct. Look at the date, not just the year. -->
|-
|30 January 1940
| align="center" | -6.1&nbsp;°C
|Piet Keijzer,<br>[[Auke Adema]],<br>Cor Jongert,<br>Durk van der Duim<br> and Sjouke Westra
|11:34<ref name=Times310140/>
|198.5&nbsp;km
|17.3&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |6<!-- This is correct. Look at the date, not just the year. -->
|-
|7 February 1941
| align="center" |0.0&nbsp;°C
|[[Auke Adema]] 
|9:19 
|198.5&nbsp;km
|21.3&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |1
|-
|22 January 1942
| align="center" | -11.7&nbsp;°C
|Sietze de Groot
|8:44 
|198&nbsp;km
|22.7&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |1
|-
|8 February 1947
| align="center" | -8.5&nbsp;°C
|{{ill|Jan W. van der Hoorn|nl}}<!-- do not confuse with Jan J. van der Hoorn -->
|10:51
|191&nbsp;km
|17.6&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |5
|-
|3 February 1954
| align="center" | -5.4&nbsp;°C
|[[Jeen van den Berg]]
|7:35
|198.5&nbsp;km
|26.2&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |7
|-
|14 February 1956
| align="center" | -4.9&nbsp;°C
|''no winner declared''<ref group="Note">After shared wins in 1933 and 1940, when the front-runners decided not to compete but join hands to cross the line together, this practice was forbidden by the organisation. {{ill|Jan J. van der Hoorn|nl}}, [[Aad de Koning]], {{ill|Jeen Nauta|nl}}, {{ill|Maus Wijnhout|nl}} and {{ill|Anton Verhoeven|nl}} however ignored this rule when they crossed the finish line in unison. They were not disqualified, but no winner was declared.</ref>
|—
|190.5&nbsp;km 
|—
| align="center" |2
|-
|18 January 1963
| align="center" | -7.7&nbsp;°C
|[[Reinier Paping]]
|10:59
|196.5&nbsp;km
|17.9&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |7
|-
|21 February 1985
| align="center" | +0.3&nbsp;°C
|[[Evert van Benthem]] 
|6:47
|196.8&nbsp;km
|29.0&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |22
|-
|26 February 1986
| align="center" | -6.9&nbsp;°C
|[[Evert van Benthem]] 
|6:55
|199.3&nbsp;km
|28.8&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |1
|-
|4 January 1997
| align="center" | -3.6&nbsp;°C
|[[Henk Angenent]] 
|6:49
|199.6&nbsp;km
|29.3&nbsp;km/h
| align="center" |11
|-
|Present
|—
|—
|—
|—
|—
| align="center" |{{Age nts|1997|1|4}}
|}
Women were first allowed to take part in the tour proper in 1985; before then they had to skate with the amateurs and no award was given. The women to cross the finish line first were:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://schaatsmuseum.nl/elfstedentocht/winnaars/|title=Winnaars van de Elfstedentocht}}</ref>

* 1940 &ndash; [[Sjoerdtsje Faber]]
* 1941 &ndash; [[Wopkje Kooistra]]
* 1942 &ndash; [[Antje Schaap]]
* 1985 &ndash; [[Lenie van der Hoorn]]
* 1986 &ndash; [[Tineke Dijkshoorn]]
* 1997 &ndash; [[Klasina Seinstra]] (7:49.11)
[[File:Elfstedentocht-Plaatsnamen.png|thumb|upright|The course of the 1997 ''Elfstedentocht'']]
The course can vary slightly from race to race, depending on the quality of the ice.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/9344/De-winter-van-2012/article/detail/3158340/2012/02/06/Het-ijs-ligt-er-fantastisch-bij-maar-grote-problemen-in-zuidoosten.dhtml
|title = Het ijs ligt er 'fantastisch' bij, maar 'grote problemen' in zuidoosten
|language = nl
|trans-title=The ice is 'fantastic', but there are problems in the south west.
|newspaper = Volkskrant
|date = 6 February 2012
|access-date = 2012-02-06
|first = Michiel
|last = van der Geest}}</ref> The cumulative distance at each checkpoint in 1997 was:

*0&nbsp;km: [[Leeuwarden]]
*22&nbsp;km: [[Sneek]] (municipality [[Súdwest-Fryslân]])
*26&nbsp;km: [[IJlst]] (mun. Súdwest-Fryslân)
*40&nbsp;km: [[Sloten, Friesland|Sloten]] (mun. [[De Fryske Marren]])
*66&nbsp;km: [[Stavoren]] (mun. Súdwest-Fryslân)
*77&nbsp;km: [[Hindeloopen]] (mun. Súdwest-Fryslân)
*86&nbsp;km: [[Workum]] (mun. Súdwest-Fryslân)
*99&nbsp;km: [[Bolsward]] (mun. Súdwest-Fryslân)
*116&nbsp;km: [[Harlingen, Netherlands|Harlingen]]
*129&nbsp;km: [[Franeker]] (mun. [[Waadhoeke]])
*174&nbsp;km: [[Dokkum]] (mun. [[Noardeast-Fryslân]])
*199&nbsp;km: [[Leeuwarden]]