Sandrine Tas
Sandrine Tas is bron in 1995 in Oostende (Belgium). She has two bothers who were involved in inline skating. So it was natural for her to follow this example. The skating club Zandvoorde was close to their house. It was quickly clear that she was a great talent.
When she was 13 years old she won already a bronze medal at her first European Championship. As a junior she won at leat one medal at every championship. The highlight was the Junioir Championships in Rosario. where she won the four titles. |
In 2015, twinty years old, she became world champion on the 1000 metres and won for the first time the Berlin marathon. In the period between 2015 and 2019 she won also 17 European titles in inline skating champiionships. Her top year was 2017 when she came back from the World games in Poland with 6 medals.. In the Belin Marathon of 2020 and 2021 she finished as the first of all females skaters..
As an explanation for her succes, she says that she likes skating because it requires many different capacities such as enduance, tacktical insight, a good technique and the possibility to sprint even after a hard race.
In order to wiin, one has to pay attention to all these diferent aspects.
Besides skating and travelling, she also studied at the university and just before the Olympic season in 2021 she realized her master title of Science in Bioscience engeneering.at Ghent. She was specialized in Food science and nutrition.
Because inline skating is not a sports of the Olympic games she started in the season 2019/2020 to skate on ice. Therefore she spend a lot of time in Heereveen in the Netherlands to skate in the Thialf skating track. Later we will come back to her success on ice. In the video below we see her in an individual speed skating race which she also won by realizing the best time.
As an explanation for her succes, she says that she likes skating because it requires many different capacities such as enduance, tacktical insight, a good technique and the possibility to sprint even after a hard race.
In order to wiin, one has to pay attention to all these diferent aspects.
Besides skating and travelling, she also studied at the university and just before the Olympic season in 2021 she realized her master title of Science in Bioscience engeneering.at Ghent. She was specialized in Food science and nutrition.
Because inline skating is not a sports of the Olympic games she started in the season 2019/2020 to skate on ice. Therefore she spend a lot of time in Heereveen in the Netherlands to skate in the Thialf skating track. Later we will come back to her success on ice. In the video below we see her in an individual speed skating race which she also won by realizing the best time.