Kip Carpenter

"Kip Carpenter" was also a nickname of Richard Carpenter (screenwriter)

Kip Carpenter

Carpenter in 2007
Personal information
Born	(1979-04-30) April 30, 1979 (age 46) Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Website	KipCarpenter.name
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Speed skating
Medal record Men's speed skating Representing the   United States Olympic Games 2002 Salt Lake City 500 m U.S. Allrounds 2000 Overall 2002 1000 m 2002 500 m U.S. Long Track Championships 2006 Sprint 2004 500 m 2002 1000 m 2001 500 m 2002 500 m 2001 1000 m 2006 1500 m

Kip Carpenter (born April 30, 1979) is an American speed skater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, as well as the 2006 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 500 meter race at the 2002 games, while also skating the fastest lap in Olympic history in the 500 meter race with a time of 24.87 for a 400 meter. He was a member of the USA National Sprint Team, as well as the DSB Corporate Sprint Team, being coached by Ryan Shimabukuro and Jeroen Otter. At the end of the 2007-2008 season Carpenter retired from professional speed skating to coach an elite speed skating team Swift Speedskating in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ^[1] Currently, he is the assistant coach for the Dutch National Team.

Background

Kip was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He later moved to Brookfield, Wisconsin to train at the U.S Olympic Training Facility, the Pettit National Ice Center, in Milwaukee.

A former short-track speed skater, Carpenter made the transition to long track in 1998. ^{[1] [2]} Three years later, he placed among the top dozen in the 500m at the 2001 World Single Distance Championships. He is best known for his form on the turns from his years skating short track which gives him a distinct advantage over most skaters. ^[1] After the 2002 Winter Olympics Carpenter continued to rank among the best American sprinters, finishing second in the overall U.S. Sprint Championships standings in 2004. He's also been a force on the international scene, finishing in the top 10 in the 500m, 1000m and overall standings at both the 2003 and 2004 World Sprints Championships. Carpenter also tallied two top 10 finishes in the 500m (eight and seventh) at the 2003 and 2004 World Single Distance Championships, and was sixth in the 1000m in 2004. Carpenter finished eighth in the 500m at the 2005 World Single Distance Championships and ranked 11th in the 500m and 12th in the 1000m in the 2006/2007 World Cup standings, as well as finishing 15th in the 500m and 12th in the 1000m in the 2007/2008 World Cup standings.

Carpenter is married to a Dutch former speed skater. In 2014, the couple moved to the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. Carpenter became trainer of the Dutch shorttrack team, as an assistant to Jeroen Otter, his first shorttrack coach in the US. ^[3]

Personal records

Men's speed skating
Event	Result	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	34.67	March 9, 2007	Salt Lake City, Utah
500 m x 2	69.47	February 13, 2002	Salt Lake City, Utah	(34.68, 34.79)
1000 m	1:07.89	February 16, 2002	Salt Lake City, Utah
1500 m	1:50.20	November 27, 1998	Calgary, Alberta, Canada

References

1. "Kip Carpenter - Biography". olympics.com.
2. "Kip Carpenter". www.usspeedskating.org. Retrieved 2026-02-17.
3. "Kip Carpenter: 'Ik voel me half Nederlands'" [Kip Carpenter: "I feel like I'm half Dutch"]. Schaatsen.nl. 2017-01-17. Archived from the original on 2023-08-17. Retrieved 2026-02-17.

External links

• Kip Carpenter at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Media related to Kip Carpenter at Wikimedia Commons
• PB's Carpenter and a link to results International Championships Archived 2021-01-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Photos of Kip Carpenter
• Carpenter's U.S. Olympic Team bio Archived 2006-12-31 at the Wayback Machine