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American female short-track speed skaters (23 P) Pages in category "American female speed skaters" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total.
Jackson also is the first American woman to win an Olympic speed skating gold since Chris Witty in 1000m in 2002, and the first American woman to win the women's 500m since Bonnie Blair in 1994. [16] In March 2023, Jackson completed at the 2023 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships and won a silver medal in the team sprint. [17]
At the December 1987 U.S. speed skating trials for the 1988 Winter Olympics, Blair led the women's field in the 500,1,000, and 1,500 meters, securing her place on the U.S. Olympic team, as expected. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Blair was considered a stronger competitor in the shorter distances, where she was seen as the United States' best chance at a gold ...
The 1960s saw a first technological breakthrough in speed skating: the 400 m artificial ice rink. The first world record 1000 m speed skating women on artificial ice was skated by Soviet speed skater Lidia Skoblikova, who skated a 1:31.8 during the Women's World Allround Speed Skating Championships of 1963 in Karuizawa.
The following is a list of notable ice speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline (long-track or short-track), gender and competing nationality.
South Korean female speed skaters (1 C, 52 P) Soviet female speed skaters (1 C, 39 P) Swedish female speed skaters (12 P) Swiss female speed skaters (2 P) T.
In 1979, she won the World Allround Speed Skating Championships, the second female American to do so. Kit Klein had been the first, winning the first official world championship in 1936. Heiden won a bronze medal in the 3,000 m at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, skating on an ankle injury that had bothered her for some time. [1]
Jutta Monica Leerdam (pronounced [ˈjutaː ˈmoːnikaː leːrˈdɑm]; born 30 December 1998) is a Dutch speed skater specializing in long-track sprint events. She is the 2022 World Sprint Champion in the 500 and 1000 metres combined.