Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960,1964 and 1968,and won a total of six gold medals,a record she shares with Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst. She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Winter Olympics and the first to earn four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games. She was the most successful athlete at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics,sharing the honour for 1960 Games with her compatriot Yevgeny Grishin.
Sylvie Daigle is a Canadian speed skater. She is a member of the Canadian short track relay team that won gold at the 1992 Winter Olympics and silver at the 1994 Winter Olympics. She is also a five-time Overall World Champion. She was born in Sherbrooke,Quebec.
Christa Luding-Rothenburger is a former speed skater and track cyclist. She was born in Weißwasser,East Germany. Luding is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games,and the first female to win a medal in both the Summer and Winter Games. She is the only athlete to win Winter and Summer Olympic medals in the same year (1988),a feat that is no longer possible due to the staggering of the Winter and Summer Olympic years. In speed skating,she is a two-time Olympic gold medallist,while she is an Olympic silver medallist in cycling.
Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics,was held from 9 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at L'anneau de vitesse. It was the last time in Winter Olympics in which speed skating events were contested in an outdoor ice rink.
Hong Kong,a special administrative region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China,sent a delegation to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin,Italy from 10 to 26 February 2006. The delegation competed under the formal name Hong Kong,China. This was the SAR's second appearance at a Winter Olympic Games,and the delegation consisted of a single athlete,short track speed skater Han Yueshuang. Entered in three events,her best performance was 18th in the women's 1,000 metres race.
Irene Karlijn "Ireen" Wüst is a Dutch former long track speed skater. Wüst became the most successful speed skating Olympian ever by achieving at least one gold medal in each of five consecutive Winter Olympic appearances. Wüst is the second athlete to win a gold medal at five consecutive Olympics,Summer or Winter,and the first to do so in individual events.
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.
Nathalie Brigitte Lambert,OC is a Canadian Olympic medalist in short-track speed skating. She won one Gold medal and two Silver medals at the Winter Olympics,and was Canada's flag bearer at the 1992 Albertville Olympics closing ceremony. She is also a three-time Overall World Champion for 1991,1993 and 1994.
Leah Jean Poulos-Mueller is an American retired speed skater. She competed at the 1972,1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics,and won two silver medals in 1980 and one in 1976. She garnered more than 65 Olympic,world,and international speed skating medals and titles during a career that spanned 12 competitive years and three Olympic teams. After retiring from competitions she had a long career in law as a civil litigator.
China's participation in the Olympic games is relatively recent. The People's Republic of China sent its first full athletic delegation to the Summer Olympic Games in the 1984 Summer Olympics which was held in Los Angeles,United States.
Wang Beixing is a Chinese long track speed skater,specializing in short distances.
Li Yan is a Chinese speed skating and short track speed skating coach,also a retired skater. She competed in the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics for China. She coached Slovakia for a short time the Club USSV in Vienna and the United States. After the 2006 Winter Olympic Games,she came back to China and became the head coach of Chinese national short track speed skating team. In 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic Games,her team won 6 gold,3 silver and 1 bronze medals in total. On May 16,2014,a press release provided by the Chinese Skating Association announced that "Li would remain as the head coach of the Chinese short track team until the Pyeongchang Games".
Isabelle Charest is a Canadian athlete and politician. A short track speed skater who competed in the 1994 Winter Olympics,the 1998 Winter Olympics,and the 2002 Winter Olympics,she was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
Sergey Konstantinovich Klevchenya is a Russian speed skater who competed for the Unified Team in the 1992 Winter Olympics and for Russia in the 1994 Winter Olympics,in the 1998 Winter Olympics,and in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Katherine Reutter-Adamek is an American short track speed skater. She is a two-time medalist in the Winter Olympics,2011 overall world silver medalist and the 2010–2011 overall ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup champion.
Park Seung-hi is a former South Korean short track and long track speed skater. She is the 2010 Overall World Champion. She won two gold medals and three bronze medals at 2010 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics. Her sister is Park Seung-ju,a long track speed skater,and her brother Park Se-yeong,a short track speed skater. She switched to long-track speed skating after the 2014 Sochi Olympics. After the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics Park announced her retirement from speedskating.
Jorien ter Mors is a retired Dutch speed skater on both short track and long track. She was the Olympic champion in the 1500 metres and team pursuit at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 1000 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Huang Yu-ting is a Taiwanese speed skater who has competed in inline speed skating,short track speed skating,and long track speed skating. She was the flagbearer for the 'Chinese Taipei' team at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games' opening ceremony.
Maryse Perreault is a former short track speed skater who competed on the Canadian speed skating team from 1981 to 1990. At the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships during these years,she won over twenty combined medals in individual races and the 3000 metres relay. In the overall World Championships classification,Perreault was the 1982 ladies champion and had a top three placing in 1983,1986 and 1989. Outside of the World Championships,Perreault won bronze at the 1988 Winter Olympics in the 3000 metres relay when short track speed skating was a demonstration sport. Perreault was named to the Speed Skating Canada Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1992.
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