Bart Swings

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Bart Swings
Bart Swings 2020.jpg
Swings in 2020
Personal information
NationalityBelgian
Born (1991-02-12) 12 February 1991 (age 34)
Herent, Belgium
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [1]
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
CountryBelgium
Sport Speed skating
EventMass start
ClubTeam IKO
Turned pro2010
Medal record
Representing Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Men's speed skating
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Beijing Mass start
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Pyeongchang Mass start
World Single Distances Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Heerenveen Mass start
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Calgary Mass start
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Heerenveen Mass start
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 Heerenveen 5000 m
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2025 Hamar Mass start
World Allround Speed Skating Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Hamar Allround
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Hamar Allround
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Heerenveen Mass start
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Heerenveen Mass start
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Heerenveen Mass start
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Minsk Allround
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Heerenveen Allround
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Hamar Allround
Men's inline speed skating
World Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 Cali Track 10000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2013 CaliRoad 20000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Wrocław Road 20000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 Wrocław Road 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Track 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Birmingham Track 10000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Road 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Birmingham Road 15000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Wrocław Track 1000 m sprint
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2013 CaliTrack 1000 m sprint
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2013 CaliRoad 10000 m points
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham Track 1000 m sprint
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 HainingTrack 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 GuarneRoad 20000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 GuarneRoad 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 YeosuTrack 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2012 A. PicenoRoad 20000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2012 A. PicenoRoad marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2012 A. PicenoRoad 5000 m relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2013 OstendTrack 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2013 OstendTrack 3000 m relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2013 OstendTrack 1000 m sprint
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2013 OstendRoad 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 Arnhem-HeerdeRoad 20000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2019 BarcelonaRoad 15000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2019 BarcelonaTrack 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2019 BarcelonaTrack 1000 m sprint
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Montecchio Maggiore Track 1000 m sprint
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 VicenzaRoad 10000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 VicenzaRoad 15000 m elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 VicenzaRoad marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Montesilvano-Sulmona Track 5000 m points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2024 Montesilvano-SulmonaRoad 10000 m points
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 HainingRoad 20000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2010 GuarneTrack 20000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2010 GuarneTrack 10000 m points
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2011 YeosuTrack 15000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2011 YeosuRoad 20000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2011 YeosuRoad 10000 m points
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2012 A. PicenoTrack 10000 m points
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Arnhem-HeerdeTrack 10000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 BarcelonaRoad marathon
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 BarcelonaRoad 10000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2023 Montecchio MaggioreTrack 10000 m elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2024 Montesilvano-SulmonaTrack 1000 m sprint
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2010 GuarneRoad marathon
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2011 YeosuTrack 3000 m relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2011 YeosuRoad 5000 m relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2012 A. PicenoTrack 20000 m elimination
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2013 OstendRoad marathon
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Arnhem-HeerdeRoad 10000 m points
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Arnhem-HeerdeTrack 15000 m elimination
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 BarcelonaRoad 10000 m points
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2019 BarcelonaTrack 3000 m relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2023 Montecchio MaggioreTrack 10000 m points-elim
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 OstendTrack 1000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 OstendTrack 10k points-elim
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 OstendTrack 3k relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 OstendRoad 5k relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 OstendRoad marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 S. BenedettoTrack 1000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 S. BenedettoTrack 10k points-elim
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 S. BenedettoRoad 20k elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 S. BenedettoRoad 10k points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 S. BenedettoRoad 5k relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 HeerdeTrack 1000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 HeerdeTrack 10k points-elim
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 HeerdeTrack 15k elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 HeerdeRoad 20k elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 HeerdeRoad 10k points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 HeerdeRoad 5k relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2012 SzegedTrack 500 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2013 AlmereRoad marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 GeisingenTrack 1000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 GeisingenTrack 3k relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 GeisingenRoad 20k elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2014 GeisingenRoad 5k relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 WörglTrack 1000 m
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 WörglTrack 10k points-elim
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 WörglRoad marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2016 HeerdeRoad 20k elimination
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 LagosRoad marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2017 LagosTrack 3k relay
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2018 OstendRoad marathon
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 L'AquilaTrack 10k points-elim
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 L'AquilaRoad 10k points
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 L'AquilaRoad 15k elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2009 OstendTrack 15k elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2010 S. BenedettoTrack 3k relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 WörglTrack 15k elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 WörglRoad 10k points
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 WörglRoad 20k elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2016 HeerdeTrack 1000 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2017 LagosTrack 1000 m
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2017 LagosTrack 10 k points
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 L'AquilaTrack 10k elimination
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 L'AquilaTrack 3k relay
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 L'AquilaRoad marathon
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2009 OstendRoad 20k elimination
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2012 SzegedTrack 15k elimination
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2012 SzegedTrack 3k relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2014 GeisingenRoad 5k relay
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2015 WörglTrack 3k relay

Bart Swings (born 12 February 1991) is a Belgian long track speed skater and inline speed skater. [2] He is the 2022 Olympic champion on the speed skating mass start. Swings won Belgium's first gold medal in 74 years [3] and is the first Belgian athlete ever to have won two medals in the Winter Olympics. [4] In 2023 he won the Belgian National Sports Merit Award, the highest trophy for a sportsperson or team in Belgium. [5]

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Career

At his first world championship speed skating event, the 2011 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Inzell, Germany, he finished 17th in the 5000 m. [6]

Swings in 2012 Bart Swings 2012 (borderless).jpg
Swings in 2012

At the 2012 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Moscow, he finished 9th overall, with a personal record at the 500 m and a national record at the 1500 m. [7]

At the 2013 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, he finished 3rd overall and took the Bronze medal back home to Belgium.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, he won a silver medal in the 1st ever Mass start at the Winter Olympics. Four years later, he won the gold medal in this event. It was Belgium's second-ever gold medal in the Winter Olympics history and the first for an individual male athlete.

At the 2019 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships, he took the lead in the men's mass start but crashed on the final lap, costing him the podium.

At the 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships, he won bronze in the men's mass start, winning his first-ever medal in a World Single Distances Speed Skating Championship event.

At the 2022 Berlin Marathon, he crossed the finish line in 56:45 minutes and set a new course record. At the same time, he secured his eighth victory at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON inline skating.

At the World Games, he won seven medals, including four gold. He won two gold, one silver and one bronze at The World Games 2013 in Cali, Colombia and two gold and one silver at the World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland.

Swings is currently studying for an engineer's degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. [8]

His brother Maarten Swings also competes in inline speed skating and speed skating, participating in the inline skating world championships and qualifying for the ISU Speed Skating World Cup.

Personal records

Personal records [9]
Speed skating
EventResultDateLocationNotes
500 m36.369 March 2024 Max Aicher Arena, Inzell
1000 m1.09.2814 November 2015 Olympic Oval, Calgary
1500 m1:42.4815 November 2015Olympic Oval, CalgaryCurrent Belgian record. [10]
3000 m3:36.9819 December 2020Thialf, HeerenveenCurrent Belgian record. [10]
5000 m6:08.763 December 2021 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake CityCurrent Belgian record. [10]
10000 m12:53.8625 January 2025Olympic Oval, CalgaryCurrent Belgian record. [10]
Team pursuit3:45.6416 November 2013Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake CityCurrent Belgian record (with Ferre Spruyt and Maarten Swings). [11]

As of 23 November 2015, his highest ranking on the all-time Adelskalender is 11th. [12]

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Bart Swings, leader of Powerslide Matter World Team". OLS roller-skating magazine. online-skating.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Tweede wereldtitel voor Bart Swings". Het Nieuwsblad. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "Winter Olympics: Belgium win first gold for 74 years". BBC News. 20 February 2022. p. 1. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Bart Swing receives his gold medal at the Winter Olympics". VRT News. 19 February 2022. p. 1. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  5. ↑ "Olympisch schaatskampioen Bart Swings krijgt dit jaar de Nationale Trofee voor Sportverdienste". Sporza. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  6. ↑ Jacobs, Hans (12 March 2011). "Bart Swings maakt knap WK-debuut op ijs". Het Nieuwsblad. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
  7. ↑ "Bart Swings negende op WK allround, vijfde keer goud voor Kramer". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). Belga. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Vandeweghe, Hans (11 March 2011). "* Sport Gevonden: Belg met schaatstalent". De Standaard. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
  9. ↑ "Bart Swings". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "National Records – Belgium (BEL)". speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  11. ↑ "België met nieuwe recordtijd elfde in ploegenachtervolging". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). Belga. 17 November 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  12. ↑ Stenlund, Evert. "Adel" . Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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