Gerard van Velde
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Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde (born 30 November 1971) is a Dutch retired speed skater who specialised in sprinting. He won an Olympic gold medal in 2002.
BiographyEdit
Van Velde was considered the best Dutch sprinter during the early 1990s, but did not manage to win a medal in either the 1992 or 1994 Winter Olympics. Particularly frustrating were the 1992 Games, where he missed a bronze medal by one-hundredth of a second.
During the late 1990s, clap skates became standard in Olympic competition. Van Velde had such difficulty adjusting to the techniques required with these new skates that he retired from skating and became a car salesman. However, he was not finished with the skating world.
Rintje Ritsma, another Dutch skater invited Van Velde to be his training partner, and, during training, he mastered the clap skate techniques. He decided to try out for the 2002 Winter Olympics, in spite of the arrival of a new generation of Dutch sprinters such as Jan Bos, Erben Wennemars and Jakko Jan Leeuwangh. Van Velde became the fourth sprinter to qualify for the games.
In Salt Lake City, he started before all the other favorites and raced to a world record finish. His time of 1:07.18 shaved more than half a second from the previous best world time, and more than a second from his personal best. The skaters who followed were unable to best him, and he won the gold medal.
In December 2005, at the Dutch Olympic trials in Heerenveen, van Velde failed to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In retirement he became a coach.<ref name=sports-reference/>
RecordsEdit
Personal recordsEdit
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World recordsEdit
Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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1000 m | 1:07.18 | 16 February 2002 | Template:Flagicon Salt Lake City | World record until 20 November 2005 |
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Tournament overviewEdit
Season |
Dutch Championships Single Distances |
Dutch Championships Sprint |
Olympic Games |
World Championships Single Distances |
World Championships Sprint |
World Cup GWC |
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1989–90 |
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1990–91 |
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1991–92 |
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1992–93 |
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1993–94 |
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1994–95 |
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1995–96 |
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check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} 36th 500m 4th 1000m 25th 500m 10th 1000m 33rd overall |
13th 500m Template:Bronze3 1000m | |
1996–97 |
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15th 500m 6th 1000m | ||
1997–98 |
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check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }} 7th 500m 7th 1000m 7th 500m 10th 1000m 6th overall |
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44th 500m 23rd 1000m | ||
1998–99 | ||||||
1999–2000 |
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32nd 500m 37th 1000m | |
2000–01 |
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19th 500m 14th 1000m | |
2001–02 |
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5th 500m 9th 1000m | |
2002–03 |
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4th 500m Template:Silver2 1000m | |
2003–04 |
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27th 100m 7th 500m Template:Silver2 1000m | |
2004–05 |
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11th 500m Template:Bronze3 1000m | |
2005–06 |
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9th 500m 7th 1000m | ||
2006–07 |
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15th 500m | ||
2007–08 |
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2008–09 |
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Source:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- DQ = Disqualified
- DNF = Did not finish
- DNS = Did not start
- NC = No classification
Medals wonEdit
Championship | Gold Template:Gold1 |
Silver Template:Silver2 |
Bronze Template:Bronze3 |
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Dutch Single Distances | 12 | 5 | 3 |
Dutch Sprint | 6 | 4 | 1 |
Olympic Games | 1 | 0 | 0 |
World Single Distances | 0 | 1 | 0 |
World Sprint | 0 | 1 | 0 |
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Template:ISU speed skater
- PB's Gerard van Velde at SpeedskatingBase.eu with link to results International Championships
- Gerard van Velde at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Template:Olympics.com profile
- Template:Nocnsf.nl
- Template:Webarchive
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