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Speed skating
Speed skating or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speedskating are long track speedskating, short track speedskating and marathon speed skating. In the Olympic Games, long track...
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Sven Kramer
Sven Kramer (born April 23, 1986 in Heerenveen) is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the current Dutch, European, and World Allround Champion. He is also the reigning world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m and the team...
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Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Kathleen Blair (born March 18, 1964 in Cornwall, New York) is a retired American speedskater. One of the top female skaters of her time, and one of the most decorated female athletes in Olympic history, Blair competed for the United States in...
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Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Kathleen Blair (born March 18, 1964 in Cornwall, New York) is a retired American speedskater. One of the top female skaters of her time, and one of the most decorated female athletes in Olympic history, Blair competed for the United States in...
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Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Kathleen Blair (born March 18, 1964 in Cornwall, New York) is a retired American speedskater. One of the top female skaters of her time, and one of the most decorated female athletes in Olympic history, Blair competed for the United States in...
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Christine Nesbitt
Christine Nesbitt (born May 17, 1985, in Melbourne, Australia) is a Canadian long track speed skater. She took an interest in track events, in cross country competitions, and in ice hockey while attending Jeanne Sauvé Primary School in London,...
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Kristina Groves
Kristina Groves (born on December 4, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian speedskater. As of 13 January 2008, she is ranked 5th on the women's Adelskalender.
She is the 2008 Single Distances World Champion on the 3000-m. She won a medal in every...
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Brittany Schussler
Brittany Schussler (born on April 21, 1985 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian speed skater. She is since 2002 member of the national High Performance Long Track Team.
Schusslers best performances are the sixth place at the World Championship 1500...
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Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes, OC, OM (born September 27, 1972) is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. That makes her one of the few athletes to medal at both the Summer and Winter Games of the Olympics. She is...
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Clara Hughes
Clara Hughes, OC, OM (born September 27, 1972) is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. That makes her one of the few athletes to medal at both the Summer and Winter Games of the Olympics. She is...
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Denny Morrison
Denny Morrison (born September 8, 1985 in Chetwynd, British Columbia) is a Canadian speedskater from Fort St. John, British Columbia. His best distance, so far in his career, is the 1500-m, where he holds the world record time of 1:42.01 (as of...
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Shannon Rempel
Shannon Rempel (born November 26, 1984 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian speed skater. Most notably, Rempel is known for her win as the 2003 World Junior Speed Skating Championships and participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics which won her team...
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Steven Elm
Steven Elm (born on August 12, 1975 in Red Deer, Alberta) is a Canadian speed skater from Calgary, Alberta.
Elm has been to three Olympics, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics he won a silver medal as part of the Canadian men's pursuit team. He formerly...
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Steven Elm
Steven Elm (born on August 12, 1975 in Red Deer, Alberta) is a Canadian speed skater from Calgary, Alberta.
Elm has been to three Olympics, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics he won a silver medal as part of the Canadian men's pursuit team. He formerly...
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Steven Elm
Steven Elm (born on August 12, 1975 in Red Deer, Alberta) is a Canadian speed skater from Calgary, Alberta.
Elm has been to three Olympics, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics he won a silver medal as part of the Canadian men's pursuit team. He formerly...
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Wang Beixing
Wang Beixing (Chinese: 王北星; pinyin: Wáng Běixīng; born March 10, 1985 in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a Chinese long track speed skater, specializing in short distances (500m and 1000m). She is coached by Canadian former skater Kevin Crockett.
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Martina Sáblíková
Martina Sáblíková [ˈmarcɪna ˈsaːbliːkovaː] (help·info) (born 27 May 1987 in Nové Město na Moravě) is a Czech speedskater, specializing in long distance races. She is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.
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Pekka Koskela
Pekka Koskela (born 29 November 1982 in Mänttä) is a Finnish speedskater, specialising on the sprint distances 500-m and 1000-m. He is the current world record holder on the 1000-m with the time 1.07.00. In December 2001 he set a junior world record...
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Anni Friesinger
Anna ("Anni") Christina Friesinger-Postma (born January 11, 1977 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team...
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Anni Friesinger
Anna ("Anni") Christina Friesinger-Postma (born January 11, 1977 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team...
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Anni Friesinger
Anna ("Anni") Christina Friesinger-Postma (born January 11, 1977 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team...
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Claudia Pechstein
Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972) is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Pechstein is the first female Winter...
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Claudia Pechstein
Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972) is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Pechstein is the first female Winter...
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Claudia Pechstein
Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972) is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Pechstein is the first female Winter...
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Claudia Pechstein
Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972) is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Pechstein is the first female Winter...
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Claudia Pechstein
Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972) is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time. Pechstein is the first female Winter...
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Daniela Anschütz-Thoms
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms (born November 20, 1974 in Erfurt, Germany) is a German speed skater. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, she won a gold medal in the women's team pursuit with teammates Anni Friesinger and Claudia Pechstein.
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Jenny Wolf
Jenny Wolf (born January 31, 1979 in Berlin) is a German ice speed skater who is the current world record holder, at 37.02 seconds, for the women's 500 m and, 74.42 seconds for women's 500 m x 2 in long track speed skating. On March 10, 2007 at the...
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Lucille Opitz
Lucille Opitz (born November 24, 1977) is a German speed skater who won a gold medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Robert Lehmann
Robert Lehmann (born January 9, 1984) is a German long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.
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Tobias Schneider
Tobias Schneider (born 23 July 1981) is a German speedskater, and is employed by the German Army as a sports soldier (Sportsoldat). His best distances are the longer ones, the 5,000-m and 10,000-m, but he is also among the best current German...
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Enrico Fabris
Enrico Fabris (born October 5, 1981, Asiago, province of Vicenza) is an Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one...
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Joji Kato
Joji Kato (加藤条治, Katō Jōji) (born February 6, 1985 in Yamagata) is a Japanese speedskater specialised in the sprinting distance 500 metres. At the age of 17 he became the first junior speedskater to skate the 500 metres below 35 seconds.
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Keiichiro Nagashima
Keiichiro Nagashima (長島 圭一郎 Nagashima Keiichirō , born 20 April 1982) is a Japanese long track speed skater specialising in the sprint distances 500 and 1000 metres. Nagashima has won two World Cup races and has three Japanese domestic titles....
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Maki Tabata
Maki Tabata (Japanese: 田畑真紀, born 9 November 1974 in Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan) is a speed skater.
Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3,000 m at the World...
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Maki Tabata
Maki Tabata (Japanese: 田畑真紀, born 9 November 1974 in Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan) is a speed skater.
Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3,000 m at the World...
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Maki Tabata
Maki Tabata (Japanese: 田畑真紀, born 9 November 1974 in Mukawa, Hokkaido, Japan) is a speed skater.
Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3,000 m at the World...
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Sayuri Osuga
Sayuri Osuga (Japanese: 大菅小百合, born 27 October 1980 in Shibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese speed skater and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 (in the 500 m Speedskating event) and in the...
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Sayuri Osuga
Sayuri Osuga (Japanese: 大菅小百合, born 27 October 1980 in Shibetsu, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese speed skater and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 (in the 500 m Speedskating event) and in the...
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Tomomi Okazaki
Tomomi Okazaki (Japanese: 岡崎朋美, born 7 September 1971 in Kiyosato, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese speed skater.
Okazaki won bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the 500 meter race, and placed seventh in the 1,000 meters. She placed fourth in the 2006...
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Tomomi Okazaki
Tomomi Okazaki (Japanese: 岡崎朋美, born 7 September 1971 in Kiyosato, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese speed skater.
Okazaki won bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the 500 meter race, and placed seventh in the 1,000 meters. She placed fourth in the 2006...
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Tomomi Okazaki
Tomomi Okazaki (Japanese: 岡崎朋美, born 7 September 1971 in Kiyosato, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese speed skater.
Okazaki won bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the 500 meter race, and placed seventh in the 1,000 meters. She placed fourth in the 2006...
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Tomomi Okazaki
Tomomi Okazaki (Japanese: 岡崎朋美, born 7 September 1971 in Kiyosato, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese speed skater.
Okazaki won bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the 500 meter race, and placed seventh in the 1,000 meters. She placed fourth in the 2006...
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Lee Kyu-Hyuk
Lee Kyu-Hyeok (이규혁, born 16 March 1978 in Seoul) is a South Korean long track speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances 500 and 1000 metres and is a two-time world sprint champion. His first championship, in 2007, was his first...
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Lee Kyu-Hyuk
Lee Kyu-Hyeok (이규혁, born 16 March 1978 in Seoul) is a South Korean long track speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances 500 and 1000 metres and is a two-time world sprint champion. His first championship, in 2007, was his first...
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Lee Kyu-Hyuk
Lee Kyu-Hyeok (이규혁, born 16 March 1978 in Seoul) is a South Korean long track speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances 500 and 1000 metres and is a two-time world sprint champion. His first championship, in 2007, was his first...
