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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.
The majority of medals that South Korea and China have won at the Winter Olympics come from short-track speed skating. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Haralds Silovs of Latvia became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two disciplines on ...
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in speed skating (20 P) Pages in category "Olympic speed skaters for the United States" The following 138 pages are in this category, out of 138 total.
Like joining Bonnie Blair as the only U.S. woman to repeat as Olympic champion in speed skating, perhaps. Jackson got her start in inline skating, winning dozens of national titles and multiple ...
The governing body for speed skating, the International Skating Union (ISU), was included in the list of recognized federations when the International Olympic Committee was founded, but was first discussed seriously for the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. No speed skating events were contested, although figure skating – also governed by the ...
The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included speed skating, but the first official short track speed skating events were not held until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. [1] Before 1992, short track speed skating events were held at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport. At those games, events for both men and ...
United States: 38.03 (OR) Yevgeny Kulikov Soviet Union: 38.37 Lieuwe de Boer Netherlands: 38.48 1000 metres details: Eric Heiden United States: 1:15.18 (OR) Gaétan Boucher Canada: 1:16.68 Vladimir Lobanov Soviet Union Frode Rønning Norway: 1:16.91 1500 metres details: Eric Heiden United States: 1:55.44 (OR) Kay Stenshjemmet Norway: 1:56.81 ...
She also qualified to compete in the 500 meters long track speed skating event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. On February 13, 2022, Jackson won the gold medal in the Women's 500m speed skating event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. She is the first Black American woman to medal in speed skating. [3]