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His speed and skating technique were noticed by the best Dutch skater at the time, Klaas Pander, who invited the 15-year-old Eden to join him training. Jaap Eden's first significant victory came in a short track race over 160m in December 1890. Thus, Eden, at age 17, was allowed by the Dutch Federation to compete in the world championships.
World Professional Speed Skating Champion (1890–1891) Hugh J. McCormick (1854–1910) was the World Professional Speed Skating Champion from 1890 to 1891. [ 1 ]
Points from the four races were combined and counted towards the all-round event, which was dropped following the 1924 Olympics. Speed skating events for women were first held at the 1932 Winter Olympics, as part of the demonstration program. The organizing committee of those Games advocated for the full inclusion of the women's events, but the ...
Harry Cody circa 1915. Harry Cody was the international outdoor amateur speed skating champion in 1914, 1915, and 1916.. Biography. Harry Cody was born in Toronto. On January 29, 1914 he won the three-mile championship at Saranac Lake, New York beating Bobbie Mclean who dropped out during the race
Sheila Grace Young-Ochowicz (born October 14, 1950) is a retired American speed skater and track cyclist.She won three world titles in each of these sports, twice in the same year (in 1973 and 1976).
Heiden finished his speed skating career by finishing second behind Hilbert van der Duim at the 1980 World Allround Championships in Heerenveen. He stood at the top of the Adelskalender, a ranking system for long-track speed skating, for a record 1,495 days, [ 1 ] and he won the Oscar Mathisen Award four times in a row from 1977 until 1980.
The gold medal won by Erhard Keller was the first medal in speedskating for West Germany as a separate country. Five athletes shared the top of the individual medal table, with one gold and one silver each: Kees Verkerk and Carry Geijssen of the Netherlands, Finland's Kaija Mustonen , the Soviet Union's Lyudmila Titova and Norway's Fred Anton ...
The Inter-City champion would return to defend his title the following year, in addition to the new champion from his region. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 10 ] Joe Bree won the inaugural event, although his time was actually 5 seconds slower than the 6:57.4 the New York Silver Skates winner, Cliff Spellman, [ 17 ] who would win the Inter-City race himself ...