Joep Wennemars
Joep Wennemars is a Dutch speed skater who specializes in the sprint distances.
Wennemars is part of Team Essent. He is the son of two-time former World Sprint Champion Erben Wennemars.
Career
Wennemars won the 2022 World Junior Speed Skating Championships at the Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck in Austria. He made his ISU Speed Skating World Cup debut in November 2022 at the Sørmarka Arena in Stavanger, Norway where he finished seventh in the 500 m in Division B, resulting in a promotion to Division A. At the second World Cup event, held at the Thialf in Heerenveen, he finished in second place in Division A behind Ning Zhongyan in a personal record of 1:08.08.At the 2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships he won the 1000 m.