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Jorrit Bergsma
Gold Medal
Netherlands
Jorrit Bergsma (born 1 February 1986) is a Dutch speed skater and marathonskater. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 10000 m.
Bergsma is engaged to American speed skater Heather Richardson.
Emery Lehman
10th Place
USA
Emery Lehman (born June 13, 1996) is an American speed skater who is scheduled to represent the United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics where he will compete in the 5000 and 10000 meter events. Lehman started playing ice hockey at age six, taking up speed skating in an attempt to improve his hockey at age nine. He excelled at the sport, winning his first national time at age 12. Two year later, he won the United States junior title in the 5000 meters. The next year, he won four junior national titles.
Lehman won the senior 2012–2013 National Championship in the 5000 meters and three titles at the junior championships. He then won a gold and bronze medal at the World Junior Championships. In his senior year of high school, Lehman won the 10000 meters at the 2013–2014 US Senior Championship/Olympic Trials and took second place in the 5000 meters. As of 2014, he holds two national junior speed skating records.
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