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List Of Speed Skaters
The following is a list of notable ice speed skating, speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline (long-track speed skating, long-track or short-track speed skating, short-track), gender and competing nationality. Long-track Male American * Ryan Bedford * K. C. Boutiette * Kip Carpenter * Joey Cheek * Shani Davis * John Farrell (speed skating), John Farrell * Casey FitzRandolph * Eric Flaim * Tucker Fredricks * Chad Hedrick * Eric Heiden * Ken Henry (speed skater), Ken Henry * Irving Jaffee * Dan Jansen * Charles Jewtraw * Jonathan Kuck * Charles Ryan Leveille * Trevor Marsicano * Terry McDermott (speed skating), Terry McDermott * Peter Mueller (skater), Peter Mueller * Apolo Ohno * Derek Parra * Tom Plant * Andy Roesch * Jack Shea (speed skater), Jack Shea * Nick Thometz Australian * Colin Coates * Colin Hickey * Danny Kah * Kenneth Kennedy (speed skater), Kenneth Kennedy * Mike Richmond (skater), Michael Richmond * Phillip Tahmindjis Austrian * Roland Brunne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speed Skating
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. In the Olympic Games, long-track speed skating is usually referred to as just "speed skating", while short-track speed skating is known as "short track". The International Skating Union (ISU), the governing body of competitive ice sports, refers to long track as "speed skating" and short track as "short track skating". Long track speed skating takes place on a 400m ice track, while short track takes place on a 111m track. An international federation was founded in 1892, the first for any winter sport. The sport enjoys large popularity in the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea. There are top international rinks in a number of other countries, including Canada, the United States, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kuck
Jonathan Kuck (born March 14, 1990) is an American speed skating, speed skater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kuck won a silver medal in the team pursuit along with Brian Hansen (speed skater), Brian Hansen and Chad Hedrick. Kuck has also won four medals at the World Single Distance Championships for Men, World Championships, a silver medal at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships, World Allround Championships, and a silver medal at the World Junior Speed Skating Championships, World Junior Championships. Personal Kuck started speed skating when he was ten and has competed internationally since 2008. He is an alum of Countryside School and University Laboratory High School (Urbana, Illinois), University Laboratory High School. He obtained a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, majoring in engineering physics with a minor in computer science. In 2020, he completed his PhD in Computer Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Kah
Danny Kah (born 5 May 1967 in Two Wells, South Australia) is a former ice speed skater from Australia, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada. Kah retired from speedskating in 1994 but still holds the national records on the 5,000 and 10,000 meters. By 11 January 2009, Kah was placed 463rd on the Adelskalender, the ranking list of all-time personal bests. Achievements * (8 participations): ** 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 *** Best result 7th in 1991 *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Hickey
Colin Edward Hickey (3 July 1931 – 13 January 1999) was an Australian speed skater. He represented Australia at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics. His seventh place in the 1956 Winter Olympics was Australia's best result until 1976. He was born in Fairfield, Victoria. Hickey became a "rink rat" when his father took him to the Glaciarium in Melbourne. "I felt an affinity with it" he recalled, saying "To do it well is to feel like a bird flying." He earned the money to buy skates from selling newspapers. To get to the Glacarium from his place in Fairfield, he had to walk, take a bus and then a train. He tried ice hockey, but because of his small frame (he grew up to be 162 centimetres and weigh 56 kilograms), he was overlooked, and took up speed skating. He took a ship to Europe to reach the speed skating hub of Norway. He worked as a lumberjack, and learned to speak the local language. "We did it hard, lived maybe two weeks at a time on just museli. It was difficult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Coates
Colin Victor Coates, (born 4 April 1946) is a former ice speed skater from Australia, who represented his native country in a record six consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1968 in Grenoble, France. Skating career Coates competed in six Winter Olympics, starting in 1968 at Grenoble, at age 21, before finishing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, aged 41. He competed over 10,000m, 5000m, 1500m, 1000m and the 500m, for a best placing of 6th in the 10,000m in Innsbruck, Austria, during the 1976 Winter Olympics, this was also at the time, Australia's best ever placing in a Winter Olympics. He would finish his Olympic career in controversial circumstances, as although technically listed as an athlete for the 1988 Winter Olympics in the 10,000m, he was in reality a coach, with his athletic listing simply to make up numbers so that the Olympic team could take more support staff and also to allow Coates the ability to skate on the ice with the rest of the team durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Thometz
Keith James "Nick" Thometz (born September 16, 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former ice speed-skater. For most of 1987 he held the World record for men's 500 meter speed skating. At the Speed Skating World Cup of 1986-1987 he won the 500 meter and 1000 meter divisions. He also won a silver medal at the 1987 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men. He competed in the Winter Olympic Games The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held in ... three times, but never medaled. World records Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com References External links * Nick Thometzat SpeedSkatingStats.com * * 1963 births Living people American male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for the United States Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics Speed skaters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Shea (speed Skater)
John Amos Shea (September 7, 1910 – January 22, 2002), better known as Jack Shea or ''The Chief'', was an American double-gold medalist in speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics. He was the first American to win two gold medals at one Winter Olympics, and was the patriarch of the first family with three generations of Winter Olympians. Along with his compatriot Irving Jaffee, he was the most successful athlete at the 1932 Winter Olympics. Career Shea won gold medals in the 500-meter and 1500-meter events at the III Olympic Winter Games in his hometown of Lake Placid, New York. He also recited the Olympic Oath at the Games' opening ceremonies, which were presided over by then-New York State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Shea chose not to defend his Olympic titles at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, at the request of a Lake Placid rabbi who asked him not to compete in Hitler's Germany. Decades later, Shea played a major role in returning the Winter Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Roesch
Andy Roesch (1906-1977) was a champion speed skater in the 1920s. Roesch was born in Smithtown, New York in 1906, son of Main Street, Smithtown barbershop owner Andrew Roesch and his wife, Johanna Roesch. Races He won a three-mile race on Hessian Pond in New York in February 1927. He was a member of the first United States Speed Skating Team In 1929 he won the New York Silver Skates finishing the two-mile course in 6:52. Roesch was nominated for the 1936 Olympics. He lost his amateur status, however, when he took a job teaching figure skating at the Brooklyn Ice Palace. Later life Roesch became a welder at the Jakobson Shipyard in Oyster Bay. In September 1976, at age 70, he fell while skating on a local pond and broke his neck. He died in 1977 in Newton, Massachusetts Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located roughly west of Downtown Boston, and comprises a patchwork of thirteen villages. The city borders Boston to the northeast and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Plant
Thomas John Plant (born November 6, 1957) is an American former speed skater. He took part in 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, and won a bronze medal at the 1980 Sprint Championships. References External links * * * Tom Plantat Team USA The United States national team or Team USA may refer to any of a number of sports team representing the United States in international competitions. Olympic teams Additionally, these teams may compete in other international competitions such as ... 1957 births Living people American male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for the United States Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-speed-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Parra
Derek Parra (born March 15, 1970) is an American inline skater and speed skater from San Bernardino, California, who graduated from Eisenhower High School in Rialto, California, in 1988. Parra won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Career Parra's most successful season was from 2001 to 2002. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he took the gold in the 1500 meters, an event in which he had been expected to do well but faced a deep pool of competition. Before that, he won the silver in the 5000 meters being bested by Jochem Uytdehaage of the Netherlands. He has worked part-time in Home Depot's gardening department in West Valley City, Utah. In his book, ''Reflections in the Ice'', Parra recounts pursuing his dream of becoming an inline skater at 17, working at McDonald's in Tampa, Florida, and being so poor he had to eat out of the trash. Parra was selected to take over as U.S. speed skating national all-around coach for the 2010 Olympics. He appears i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apolo Ohno
Apolo Anton Ohno (; born May 22, 1982) is an American retired short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist (two gold, two silver, four bronze) in the Winter Olympics. Ohno was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2017 and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 2019. Raised by his father, Ohno began training full-time in 1996. At the age of 14, he became the youngest U.S. national champion in 1997 and was the reigning champion from 2001 to 2009, winning the title a total of 12 times. In December 1999, he became the youngest skater to win a World Cup event title, and became the first American to win a World Cup overall title in 2001, which he won again in 2003 and 2005. Ohno has been the face of short track in the United States since winning his medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He won his first overall World Championship title at the 2008 championships. Ohno's accolades and accomplishments include the United States Olympic Committee's Male At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mueller (skater)
Peter Alan Mueller (born July 27, 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American speed skating coach and former speed skater. Early life Mueller attended La Follette High School. Skating career Peter Mueller was the first Olympic Champion on the 1,000 m, when this distance was introduced at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. More international successes followed at the World Sprint Championships, where he won bronze in 1976 and silver in 1977. His last appearance as a speed skater was at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, where he placed 5th in the 1,000 m, 1.93 seconds behind the winning time of Eric Heiden. Coaching After ending his speed skating career, Mueller became a very successful skating coach. He was the coach of Bonnie Blair when she won two gold medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics, Dan Jansen when he won gold at the 1994 Winter Olympics, Marianne Timmer (two gold medals) and Jan Bos (silver) at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and Gianni Romme (sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
