Jaap Havekotte, Dutch speed skater and producer of ice skates (born 1912)

Jaap Havekotte

Dutch speed skater (1912–2014)

Jaap Havekotte was a Dutch speed skater. He skated in several Dutch championships during the 1940s, but is best known as the founder of Viking Schaatsenfabriek, a Dutch producer of ice skates. The Viking ice skate proved to be very popular, and by 1972 every speed skating world…