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In 2006, Canadian Cindy Klassen became the only other speed skater, and one of seven Winter Olympians, to win five medals—one gold, two silver, two bronze—at a single edition of the Games. [5] Pechstein, American Bonnie Blair, and Sven Kramer of the Netherlands are the only speed skaters to win gold in the same event three times in a row.
The skaters only utilize the inner lane and the lap distance is accordingly less than the 400 meters of a regular lap skated with one inner curve and one outer curve. For comparison, the fastest known 400m lap was skated by Zhang Hong during a 500m race in Salt Lake City on 20 November 2015, with a lap time of 25.93 seconds and an average speed ...
Graeme Obree (born 11 September 1965 [1]), nicknamed "the Flying Scotsman", after the famous steam train, is a Scottish racing cyclist who twice broke the world hour record, in July 1993 and April 1994, and was the individual pursuit world champion in 1993 and 1995.
He was track cycling World Champion in 1894, [2] [3] and competed at the European Speed Skating Championships in 1896. [4] Henie was coach and manager for his daughter Sonja , [ 5 ] who became a famous international figure skating champion [ 6 ] and later a major American film star.
World Single Distances Championships: Calgary, Canada [1] 500 meters × 2 69.03 Tucker Fredricks: 9 March 2007 World Single Distance Championships: Salt Lake City, United States [2] 1000 meters 1:05.37 WR: Jordan Stolz: 26 January 2024 World Cup: Salt Lake City, United States [3] 1500 meters 1:40.87 Jordan Stolz: 27 January 2024 World Cup
Her world sprint speed skating championship of 1973 and her world sprint track cycling championship of that same year made her the first athlete to win World championships in two sports in the same year. The United States Olympic Committee named her Sportswoman of the Year in 1976 and 1981 for her accomplishments in both cycling and speed skating.
Speed skating: World All-Round Speed Skating Championships: Individuals 1933 Joy Beune 2025 Annual World Sprint Speed Skating Championships: Individuals 1970 Miho Takagi 2026 Biennial World Single Distance Championships: Individuals and Nations 1996: Winners in 8 events 2025 Annual
As a speed skater, she competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics, where she finished 7th in the 1500m. She was fourteen years old at the time, making her the youngest American female Winter Olympian. [1] Carpenter-Phinney trained with Norwegian coach Finn Halvorsen as part of the US National speed skating team that competed in the 1972 Olympics.