Speed Skater Usa Olympics

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.

Speed skater usa olympics. Speed skater bonnie blair one of the most successful american olympic athletes of all time recalls fondly her first games in sarajevo in 1984 in this new episode of our video series word of olympians. He was a silver medalist in the men s 5000 meter short track relay at the olympic winter games in sochi. Speed skating is a sport that has been contested at the winter olympic games since the inaugural games in 1924. Initially only men were allowed to participate.

Team usa have acted dishonourably by tossing a coin to decide who would be their winter olympics flag bearer a double gold medallist has claimed. Points from the four races were combined and counted towards the all round event which was dropped following the 1924 olympics. It was only at the lake placid games in 1932 that women were authorised to compete in speed skating which was then only a demonstration sport. Speed skating appeared for the first time in 1924 at the first olympic winter games in chamonix.

Heather bergsman struggled early in her skating career with form and technique but now in her third olympics she could become the first female speed skater to win a medal for the u s. In 2014 alvarez became the first cuban american male speed skater to make a us olympic team. The men have won 40 medals against. Speed skating has been the united states best sport at the winter olympics in terms of medals won for both men and women.

Usa speed skating olympic history. Through 2010 the us has won 67 medals in speed skating compared to 47 in figure skating and 39 in alpine skiing.