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Speed skating is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1924. [1] Events held at the first Winter Olympics included the men's 500-metre, 1500-metre, 5000-metre, and 10,000-metre races.
Wilhelm Henie (7 September 1872 – 10 May 1937) [1] was a Norwegian sportsman and furrier. He was track cycling World Champion in 1894, [2] [3] and competed at the European Speed Skating Championships in 1896. [4]
Bernt Sverre Evensen (18 April 1905 – 24 August 1979) was a Norwegian speed skater and racing cyclist who competed in skating at the 1928 and 1932 Winter Olympics. In 1928 he became the first Norwegian skater to win an Olympic gold medal by winning the 500 m event (first place shared with Clas Thunberg). At the same Olympics, he also won ...
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.
Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born February 26, 1957) is an American retired racing cyclist and speed skater who won four medals in World Cycling Championship competitions (both road and track cycling) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was a three-time overall winner of the Coors International Bicycle Classic.
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in speed skating (21 P) Pages in category "Olympic medalists in speed skating" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 301 total.
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.