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{{short description|Dutch speed skater}}
{{BLP selfpublished|date=October 2013}}
{{Infobox speed skater
| name           = Gretha Smit
| image          = GrethaSmitOlympicGames2002.jpg
| imagesize      = 250px
| caption        = Smit (w. silver medal Olympic Games 2002)
| headercolor    = #d7ecff
| country        = [[Netherlands]]
| club           =
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|df=y|1976|1|20}}<ref name=sports-reference>{{cite web|title=Gretha Smit |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sm/gretha-smit-1.html |website=sports-reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=24 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031000919/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sm/gretha-smit-1.html |archive-date=31 October 2013 }}</ref>
| birth_place    = [[Rouveen]], [[Netherlands]]<ref name=sports-reference/>
| death_date     =
| death_place    =
| height         = 1.67 m<ref name=sports-reference/>
| weight 	 = 60 kg<ref name=sports-reference/>
| turnedpro      = 
| retired        =
| pb             =
| website        = 
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalSport | [[Speed Skating]]}}
{{MedalCountry |  the {{NED}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake City]] | 5000 metres}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Speed Skating Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[2004 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships|2004 Seoul]] | 3000 metres}}
{{MedalSilver| [[2004 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships|2004 Seoul]] | 5000 metres}}
{{MedalBronze| [[2003 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships|2003 Berlin]] | 3000 metres}}
{{MedalBronze| [[2003 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships|2003 Berlin]] | 5000 metres}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[KNSB Dutch Marathon Championships|Dutch Marathon Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|1995 Ermerzand|Natural Ice}}
{{MedalGold|2000|Artificial Ice}}
{{MedalGold|2001|Artificial Ice}}
{{MedalGold|2002|Artificial Ice}}
{{MedalGold|2004|Artificial Ice}}
}}
'''Grietje "Greta" Smit'''<ref name=sports-reference/> (born 20 January 1976) is a Dutch former [[speed skating|speed skater]].

Smit won a surprising silver medal in the [[2002 Winter Olympics]] in the 5000 metre event. She skated a world record broken in a later pair by [[Claudia Pechstein]]. Prior to that season, she had not competed in long track speed skating competitions for several years, and had only taken up practice again shortly before the Dutch trials in late 2001.

However, she had been a very successful [[marathon skating|marathon skater]] in the years before 2002. She had become Dutch marathon skating champion on natural ice in 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2001, and on artificial ice in 1999, 2000 and 2001. During the last held [[Elfstedentocht]] in 1997 she finished second. She also won the alternative Elfstedentocht - skated in [[Finland]] - in 1998, 2000 and 2001.

Smit's two sisters, Jenita and Marianne, were also good (marathon) skaters; Jenita also took up long track skating in the 2002/2003 season.

==Personal records==
{{PersonalRecordsTop|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=17&s=372|title=Gretha Smit|publisher=www.speedskatingresults.com|access-date = 20 November 2015}}</ref>}}
{{PersonalRecordsSport|[[Speed skating]]}}
{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|500 m|42:18|7 February 2004|[[Vikingskipet]], Hamar|}}
{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|1000 m|1:28.94|26 February 2004|Deventer|}}
{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|1500 m|2:02.02|8 February 2004|Hamar|}}
{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|3000 m|4:03.80|4 March 2007|Olympic Oval, Calgary|}}
{{PersonalRecordsMiddle|5000 m|6:49.22|23 February 2002|[[Utah Olympic Oval]], Salt Lake City|}}
{{PersonalRecordsBottom}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://iptv-iptvsmarterspro.com// Official website (in french)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504190333/http://www.grethasmit.nl/ |date=2008-05-04 }}

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{{s-bef|before=[[Andrea Nuyt]]}} 
{{s-ttl|title=[[Ard Schenk Award]]|years=2003}} 
{{s-aft|after=[[Marianne Timmer]]}}
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[[Category:1976 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Staphorst]]
[[Category:Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in speed skating]]
[[Category:Dutch female speed skaters]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:20th-century Dutch women]]
[[Category:Speed skaters from Overijssel]]
[[Category:21st-century Dutch sportswomen]]


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