Eric Arthur Heiden is an American physician and a former long track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist. He won an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. Heiden was the most successful athlete at those Olympic Games, single-handedly winning more gold medals than all nations except for the Soviet Union (10) and East Germany (9). He is the most successful Winter Olympian from a single edition of any Winter Olympics. He delivered the Athlete's Oath at those same 1980 Games. His coach was Dianne Holum.
Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held over fourteen days, from 9 to 23 February. Ten events were contested at the Utah Olympic Oval.
Bonnie Kathleen Blair is a retired American speed skater. She is one of the top skaters of her era, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history. Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, winning five gold medals and one bronze medal.
Long track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, short track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating.
Shani Earl Davis is an American former speed skater.
Nikolay Alekseyevich Gulyayev is a former speed skater, considered among the world's best in the 1980s.
Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canadian speed skater, widely recognized as one of the greatest speedskating sprinters of all time.
Daniel Erwin Jansen is a retired American speed skater. A multiple world champion in sprint and perennial favorite at the Winter Olympics, he broke a ten-year Olympic jinx when he won a gold medal in his final race, which was the 1,000 meters in the 1994 Winter Games.
Christine Diane Witty is an American speed skater and racing cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports.
Igor Nikolayevich Zhelezovski or Ihar Mikałajevič Žalazoŭski was a Soviet and Belarusian speed skater, considered to be one of the best sprinters in the history of the sport.
Sheila Grace Young-Ochowicz is a retired American speed skater and track cyclist. She won three world titles in each of these sports, twice in the same year. In 1976, she also became the first American athlete to win three medals at one Winter Olympics.
Kenneth Eldred Bartholomew was a speed skating champion from the United States.
Keith James "Nick" Thometz is an American former ice speed-skater. For most of 1987 he held the World record for men's 500 meter speed skating. At the Speed Skating World Cup of 1986-1987 he won the 500 meter and 1000 meter divisions. He also won a silver medal at the 1987 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men. He competed in the Winter Olympic Games three times, but never medaled.
Constance Anne Paraskevin, known as Connie is a retired American professional track cyclist and speed skater. She is a four times sprint world champion, ten times national sprint champion and an Olympic bronze medalist.
Judith Dannhauer is a German speed skater. She competed for Germany at the 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
The Olympic Center is a sports complex in Lake Placid, New York that acted as the Olympic Park for both the 1932 and the 1980 Winter Olympics. It will be the main venue of the 2023 Winter Universiade.
The United States competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9 to 25, 2018.
Michelle Lynn Kline is a former American female speed skater. She competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics representing United States.
Tara Elizabeth Laszlo is a former American female speed skater who was also a primary sprint skater. She represented United States at the 1992 Winter Olympics and competed in the women's 1500 metres and in the women's 5000 metres events. Current town Prescott, Wis. Married to Dominic Navarro.
Figure Skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. Although ice skating began in 3,000 BCE in Scandinavia, American Edward Bushnell's 1855 invention of steel blades and Jackson Haines bringing elements of ballet to figure skating were critical to the development of modern day figure skating. Since then, figure skating in the United States has grown to have 186,038 members as of the 2020-2021 season.
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