Kjeld Nuis (; born in Leiden 10 November 1989) is a Dutch
speed skater
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.
Nuis specializes over the middle distances of 1000 and 1500 meters. At the
2018 Winter Olympics
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, closing =
, opened_by = President Moon Jae-in
, cauldron = Kim Yun-a
, stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium
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in
Pyeongchang
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, he won the gold medal at the
1500 m
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and
1000 m events. At the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
he successfully defended his title on the
1500 m
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. He is the current holder of the world record over 1500 meters.
Career
Nuis is a three-time Olympic champion, having won Olympic gold in both the 1000 and 1500 meters at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He won another gold in the 1500 meters four years later, improving Derek Parra's twenty year old Olympic Record to 1:43:21 in the process. He is also a two-time world single distance champion over 1000 and 1500 meters.
He is a multi-time world single distance medalist over 1000 and 1500 meters and is also a four-time season overall World Cup winner of the 1000 meters distance and a two-time winner over 1500 meters.
On March 10, 2019, he set the world record for the 1500 meter event to 1:40:17 in the
Utah Olympic Oval
The Utah Olympic Oval is an indoor speed skating oval located southwest of Salt Lake City, in Kearns, Utah. The Oval was built for the 2002 Winter Olympics and it hosted the long track speed skating events for the 2002 games. Inside the facilit ...
during the
finals
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of the 2018-19 World Cup tour. A day earlier in the same event, he also improved the 1000 meters world record to 1:06:18, which stood until bested by
Pavel Kulizhnikov
Pavel Aleksandrovich Kulizhnikov (russian: Павел Александрович Кулижников; born 20 April 1994) is a Russian speed skater. He won the men's 500 metres event at the 2015 World Single Distance Championships as well as t ...
on February 15, 2020.
In Savalen, Norway on 17 March 2022, he set a new world speed skating record of 103 kilometers per hour.
Personal life
From 2014 until the end of 2018, Nuis was in a relationship with 2011 Jill Lauren de Robles. They have a son.
On 19 December 2018 Nuis was named Dutch Sportsman of the Year 2018 at the NOC NSF Sport Gala.
He lives in
Emmen.
Records
Personal records
World records established
Tournament overview
Source:
World Cup overview
Source:
:''– = Did not participate''
:''(b) = Division B''
:''DQ = Disqualified''
:''NC = No classification''
Medals won
References
External links
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1989 births
Dutch male speed skaters
Sportspeople from Leiden
Living people
Speed skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters of the Netherlands
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
20th-century Dutch people
21st-century Dutch people