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Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 15, 1958) is an American speed skater who won all the distances and thus an unprecedented five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States. He received the 1980 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Subject: The Olympic Rings. ...
1980 Winter Olympic Games Speed skating results Mens events Womens events ...
The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. ...
The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. ...
The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. ...
The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. ...
The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. ...
June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ...
1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Speed skating or speedskating is a form of skating in which the competitors attempt to travel a certain distance as quickly as possible on skates. ...
(Redirected from 1980 Winter Olympic Games) The XIII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, Canada; they withdrew before the final vote. ...
Lake Placid is a village of 2,638 in the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County, New York, near the center of the Town of North Elba and named after an adjacent lake. ...
The James E. Sullivan Award is awarded annually by the Amateur Athletic Union to the top amateur athlete in the United States. ...
The magnitude of Heiden's achievement has been lost on many Americans, though Heiden is an icon in the speedskating community and, in particular, in Europe where the sport is more highly regarded. Few speed skaters have won competitions in both sprint and long-distance events. (For that matter, few athletes have done so in other sports, such as swimming and track.)
Beth Heiden, Eric's sister, won a bronze medal at the 1980 games as well, giving the Heiden family exactly half of the medals won by the United States at those games. Beth Heiden (born September 27, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American athlete who excelled in both speed skating and cycle racing. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
During his short speed skating career, Heiden also won 3 World Championships and 4 World Sprint Championships. He 3 times broke the 1,000 metres world record, 1 time in the 1,500 metres, 3,000 metres and 10,000 metres, and he broke the points world record in both allround and the sprinting distances. Heiden finished his speed skating career by finishing second behind Hilbert van der Duim at the 1980 World Allround Championships in Heerenveen. Heiden stood at the top place of the Adelskalender for an impressive time period of 1495 days, and won the Oscar Mathisen-award four times in a row from 1977 until 1980. As of today he still is the only skater who has won the award four times. The International Skating Union has organized the world championships since 1893. ...
This list of speed skating records is an overview of the current speed skating records in the various events in the speed skating sport. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
The International Skating Union has organized the world championships since 1893. ...
Heerenveen (Frisian: It Hearrenfean) is a municipality and a town in the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. ...
Adelskalender is a ranking table for speed skating. ...
Since 1959, the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the outstanding speed skating performance of the season. ...
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Later, both Eric Heiden and his sister became professional cyclists, winning a few American professional races and Eric taking part in the Tour de France once. Eric still holds the official record on one of the local benchmark climbs in Woodside, California: Old la Honda Rd. Cycling is a recreation, a sport, and a means of transport across land. ...
The Tour de France (French for Tour of France), often referred to as La Grande Boucle, Le Tour or The Tour, is an epic long distance road bicycle racing competition for professionals held over three weeks in July in and around France. ...
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Heiden became an orthopedist, and has worked for the U.S. national team, in attendance during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games when Casey FitzRandolph was the first American man since Heiden to win a gold in the men's 500 meter. Heiden was asked to carry the torch during the opening ceremony, but declined because the 1980 U.S. men's hockey team was going to light the flame. He publicly wondered whether he would have had to compete in some of the women's speedskating events in 1980 to get the honour. Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (BE: orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with acute, chronic, traumatic and recurrent injuries and other disorders of the locomotor system, its musclular and bone parts. ...
(Redirected from 2002 Winter Olympic Games) The XIX Olympic Winter Games were held in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. ...
The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team celebrates the goal that led them to victory over the USSR. The Miracle on Ice is the popular nickname for the ice hockey game in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the United States...
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