The Jaap Eden Ice rink opened 9th december 1961 and was, after Budapest, the 2nd 400 meter artificial Ice rink in the world. In the first year already more then 300.000 visitors came to skate at this ice rink. Nowadays more then 625.000 visitors come to skate every season at this one of the last open air Ice rinks.

The open air 30x60 m track was in 1973 replaced by the Edenhal. Here the history of Dutch Shorttrack started. In 1977 the first Open Dutch Championship Shorttrack was held here with a follow up in 1978 and 1979. Later 29 editions of the Open Dutch Championships for Juniors would follow.

Besides many concerts like ABBA and Frank Zappa, also many international Shorttrack competitions were held in the Edenhal with Worldchampionships in 1985 and 1990. With 5 years on a row the National Championships of Shorttrack and the Europacup StarClass competition we conclude the modern history of Shorttrack in Amsterdam.