Saturday, February 22, 2014

Speed Skating - Ladies' Team Pursuit - 2014 Winter Olympics

Gold Medal
Netherlands
 Marrit Leenstra
Marrit Leenstra (born 10 May 1989, Wijckel) is a Dutch long track speed skater.
 Jorien Ter Mors
Jorien ter Mors (born 21 December 1989) is a Dutch speed skater on both short track and long track. She is the Olympic champion of the 1,500 metres and team pursuit (long track) in Sochi 2014.
 Lotte van Beek
Lotte van Beek (born 9 December 1991) is a Dutch speed skater. She finished second in the women's 1500 meters event at the 2013 World Single Distance Championships.
 Ireen Wüst
Ireen Wüst (born 1 April 1986) is a Dutch long track allround speed skater.
At the age of 19, on 12 February 2006, Wüst won the gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games 3000-meter event. She is the youngest Dutch Olympic champion in Winter Games history. Four years later in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games she won the 1500-meter event. She is also a multiple world champion.







6th Place
USA
 Brittany Bowe
Brittany Starr Bowe (born February 24, 1988) is an American speed skater and former inline skater and basketball player. She has eight gold, one silver, and two bronze medals from the world inline speed skating championships. From her junior years, she has another 21 world championship medals. She also has a gold medal from the combined sprint event in roller skating at the 2007 Pan American Games.
In speed skating, she has specialized in the 500, 1000 and 1500 meters, and she won a bronze medal on the 1000 meters distance in the 2013 World Single Distance Championships.  Bowe is the current world record holder on the 1000 meters distance, and the current American record holder on the 1500 metes.
 Heather Richardson
Heather Richardson (born March 20, 1989) is an American speed skater who has competed since 2006. She represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where she finished 6th in 500 meters, 9th in the 1000 meters, and 16th in the 1500 meters.
At the 2011 World Single Distance Championships in Inzell, Germany, she won a bronze medal in the 1000 metes. She also placed 8th in the 500 meters, and was part of the team pursuit team that finished in 8th place.
On January 26–27, 2013, Richardson won the gold medal at the 2013 World Sprint Championships in Salt Lake City, United States.

Jilleanne Rookard
Jilleanne Rookard (born January 9, 1983 in Wyandotte, Michigan) is an American speed skater who has competed since 2006. She was named to the U.S. team for the 2010 Winter Olympics. She reached the 12th place in the 3000m in a time of 4:13.05 and 8th place in the 5000m with a time of 7:07.48.

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