Olympic hopeful Jutta Leerdam, Jake Paul's fiancée, bounces back after crushing fall during trials

Dutch women’s velocity skating hopeful Jutta Leerdam bounced backmost connected Sunday successful the 500-meter contention arsenic she hoped to marque the Olympic squad for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

Leerdam finished successful 2nd spot down Femke Kok successful the race. Kok, who acceptable the women’s 500-meter satellite grounds successful November, had a clip of 36.873. Leerdam finished with a clip of 37.242.

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Jutta Leerdam participates successful the Staatsloterij Olympic Qualification Tournament astatine THIALF successful Heerenveen, Netherlands, connected Dec. 26, 2025.  (Caroline van Leusden/EYE4images/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

It was a overmuch amended than Friday’s result.

Leerdam, who is the fiancée of boxer Jake Paul, crashed and fell connected the crystal during the 1,000-meter event. She was seen successful tears arsenic she skated disconnected the ice.

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Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands looks dejected competing connected the Women's 500m connected Day 1 of the Dutch Speed Skating Olympic Qualifiers astatine Thialf connected Dec. 26, 2025 successful Heerenveen, Netherlands. (Henk Jan Dijks/Marcel ter Bals/DeFodi Images/DeFodi via Getty Images)

"I'm skating truthful good successful practice. What those girls are skating here, I could person easy skated today," she said, via Olympics.com. "I've skated 1:14 present 25 times, and I consciousness adjacent amended present than I person successful the past 2 years. I’m truly hitting it."

There’s inactive anticipation for Leerdam to suffice for the Olympics arsenic the nationalist committee volition yet marque the determination arsenic to whether Leerdam volition mae the cut.

Leerdam won a metallic medal successful the 2022 Beijing Games successful the 1,000-meter race. She finished conscionable down Japan’s Miho Takagi, who acceptable an Olympic grounds time.

Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands receives the golden medal for the women’s 1000m during the ISU Speed Skating World Cup astatine Utah Olympic Oval connected Nov. 14, 2025. (Peter Creveling/Imagn Images)

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She skipped the 2025 ISU Speed Skating World Cup successful Hamar, Norway, to absorption connected Olympic trials.

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