Jan Bos (born 29 March 1975) is a Dutch former

speedskater 　 Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, ...

and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.

Speed skater

In 1998 Bos both became the world champion sprint and won the silver medal that year in the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano. He won the silver medal on that same distance in Salt Lake City. He competed at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in Athens in the team sprint track cycling event, together with his brother Theo Bos, who won the silver at the individual sprint, and Teun Mulder. The Dutch finished sixth after being knocked out by Japan. Bos ended his career as a competitive speed skater in 2011.

Cyclist

In 2012 Bos (in cooperation with the Human Power Team from Delft) tried to become the fastest cyclist in the world during the

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in Battle Mountain, Nevada. At the time, the International Human Powered Vehicle Association record was 133 km/h, held by the Canadian

Sam Whittingham Sam Whittingham is a Canadians, Canadian cycle sport, cyclist who has held several world records on recumbent bicycles. Records , he held the following world records under the sanction of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association: ...

. Bos used a

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specially developed for the occasion by students of the Delft University of Technology and the

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

, but only managed a maximum speed of 126.5 km/h. In September 2013, his teammate

Sebastiaan Bowier Jonkheer Sebastiaan Bowier (born August 23, 1987) is a Dutch people, Dutch cyclist. In September 2013, he achieved a speed of in a Human-powered land vehicle, human powered vehicle (HPV), breaking the previous world record. Human Power Team Bo ...

did manage to break the record, reaching a speed of 133.78 kilometres per hour (83.13 mph)

Records

Personal records

Bos specialized in the sprint events but does have an Adelsalender score of 156.494 Source: www.sskating.com & SpeedskatingResults.com

World records

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

Tournament overview

* DNF = Did not finish * DQ = Disqualified source:

References

External links

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Jan Bos
at SpeedSkatingStats.com * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bos, Jan 1975 births Living people People from Harderwijk Dutch male speed skaters Dutch male cyclists Dutch track cyclists Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in speed skating World record setters in speed skating Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Gelderland World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists Dutch speed skating coaches Dutch sports coaches Cyclists from Gelderland 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch people