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| Born | July 30, 1990 Hales Corners, Wisconsin, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 130 lb (59 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Short track speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | APTE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alyson Dudek (born July 30, 1990) is an American short track speed skater and Olympic bronze medallist.
Dudek, from Hales Corners, Wisconsin, is a fourth-generation Polish American. [1] Dudek attended Divine Savior Holy Angels High School for three and a half years. [2] Dudek qualified for her first World Cup team while still a high school student and finished her high school education through online correspondence course while training in Salt Lake City. As a younger skater, Dudek originally trained in both long track and short track speed skating before choosing to specialize in short track. [2] In late 2014, Dudek competed in the 26th season of the reality show The Amazing Race, which began airing on February 25, 2015, while despite performing well throughout the race, their season has come to an end in Leg 8, where a poor performance in the leg and a U-Turn from Laura & Tyler sent them home in 6th place. Dudek was teamed with her boyfriend, bobsledder Steven Langton, whom Dudek met at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. [3]
At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Dudek competed in the 500 m and 3000 m relay. In the 500 m, Dudek didn't make it past the quarterfinals. [4] In the 3000 m relay, Dudek was part of the relay team that won bronze due to the disqualification of South Korea behind China and Canada. [5] At the U.S. Olympic trials on January 5, 2014, Dudek qualified for the 2014 Olympic team, her second trip to the Games. [6]
Charles Hamelin is a Canadian retired short track speed skater. In a competitive career that spanned nearly twenty years on the international circuit, Hamelin participated in five Winter Olympic Games and won six Olympic medals, including a national-best four gold medals. Competing in all distances, he won thirty-eight medals at the World Championships, including fourteen gold medals, and also led Canada to five world relay titles. Hamelin was also the 2014 Overall World Cup season winner and the 2018 Overall World Champion, giving him all the achievements available in the sport.
Allison Baver is an American retired short track speed skater. A member of the U.S. short track speed skating squad beginning in 2002, Baver earned multiple medials in ISU World Cup competition. Baver competed in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, and 3000m relay events and trained with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 2005–2006 season, she was ranked third overall in world rankings. In 2010 she won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Christine Nesbitt is a Canadian retired long track speed skater who currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. She won the gold medal in the 1000 metres event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. She had previously won a silver medal in the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She is also the 2011 sprint champion, 2012 1500 metres world champion, three-time world champion for 1000 metres, and three-time world champion for team pursuit. On 4 June 2015 she announced her retirement.
John Robert "J. R." Celski is a retired American short track speed skater, three-time Olympian, and three-time medalist in the Winter Olympics. Celski has held a total of five combined Short Track World and Junior World Records throughout his career including the 500m and 5000m relay World Records as well as the 500m, 1000m and 3000m relay Junior World Records. Celski was a part of the team that broke and currently holds the World Record in the 5000m relay established in Shanghai, China on November 12, 2017.
Jessica Gregg is a former Canadian short track speed skater.
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