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Born November 6, 1933 (age 91) • Oslo • Norway
Awards And Honors Winter Olympic Games
Hjalmar Andersen
Norwegian speed skater
Ivar Ballangrud
Norwegian speed skater
Sven Kramer
Dutch skater
Ard Schenk
Dutch speed skater
Johann Olav Koss
Norwegian speed skater
Eric Heiden
Eric Heiden
American athlete
Yvonne van Gennip
Dutch speed skater
Dan Jansen
American speed skater
Yevgeny Grishin
Russian speed skater
Karin Enke
German skater
Lidiya Skoblikova
Lidiya Skoblikova
Russian skater
Eero Mäntyranta
Finnish skier
Apolo Anton Ohno competing at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Apolo Anton Ohno
American speed skater
Pechstein, Claudia
Claudia Pechstein
German speed skater
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann competing at the 1991 world speed skating championships, where she won the world all-around title.
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
German athlete
Clas Thunberg
Finnish speed skater
Irving Jaffee
American speed skater
Yang Yang
Chinese skater
Bonnie Blair
Bonnie Blair
American speed skater
Speed skater and cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger
Christa Luding-Rothenburger
East German speed skater and cyclist

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