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====Olympic Games in Turin====
====Olympic Games in Turin====
At the Olympics her first distance was the [[Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres|3000 m]]<ref>{{cite web |author= |coauthors= |title=Ireen Wust Biography|url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wu/ireen-wust-1.html|work= |publisher=www.sports-reference.com|date=|accessdate=12 February 2010}}</ref> where Wüst beat Groenewold and [[Cindy Klassen]] of Canada and became the youngest olympic champion from the Netherlands in the history of the Winter Olympics. She missed out the podium in the [[Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres|1000 m]] finishing 4th. At her last event the [[Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres|1500 m]] she won a bronze medal behind Cindy Klassen and [[Kristina Groves]] of Canada. At her last event of the season the [[2006 World Allround Speed Skating Championships|2006 World Allround Championships]], Wüst ended 4th after she had been ill a few days before the tournament.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.omroepbrabant.nl/?news/59340482/W+252;st+vierde+halverwege+WK+allround+.aspx |title=Wüst vierde halverwege WK allround |language=dutch |date=18 March 2006 |website= |publisher=[[Omroep Brabant]] |accessdate=13 April 2014}}</ref>
At the Olympics her first distance was the [[Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres|3000 m]]<ref>{{cite web|author= |coauthors= |title=Ireen Wust Biography |url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wu/ireen-wust-1.html |work= |publisher=www.sports-reference.com |date= |accessdate=12 February 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703103151/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wu/ireen-wust-1.html |archivedate= 3 July 2009 |df= }}</ref> where Wüst beat Groenewold and [[Cindy Klassen]] of Canada and became the youngest olympic champion from the Netherlands in the history of the Winter Olympics. She missed out the podium in the [[Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres|1000 m]] finishing 4th. At her last event the [[Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres|1500 m]] she won a bronze medal behind Cindy Klassen and [[Kristina Groves]] of Canada. At her last event of the season the [[2006 World Allround Speed Skating Championships|2006 World Allround Championships]], Wüst ended 4th after she had been ill a few days before the tournament.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.omroepbrabant.nl/?news/59340482/W+252;st+vierde+halverwege+WK+allround+.aspx |title=Wüst vierde halverwege WK allround |language=dutch |date=18 March 2006 |website= |publisher=[[Omroep Brabant]] |accessdate=13 April 2014}}</ref>


After the end of the season Wüst was elected as the best [[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 2006]].<ref>{{cite web |author= |coauthors= |title=Bos en Wüst sporters van het jaar|url=http://www.rtl.nl/%28/actueel/rtlnieuws/binnenland/%29/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2006/12_december/21/binnenland/1221_1430_sportprijzen2006.xml|work= |publisher=www.rtl.nl|date=12 December 2006|accessdate=22 February 2010}}</ref> She was also elected female skater of the year.
After the end of the season Wüst was elected as the best [[Dutch Sportsman of the year|Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 2006]].<ref>{{cite web |author= |coauthors= |title=Bos en Wüst sporters van het jaar|url=http://www.rtl.nl/%28/actueel/rtlnieuws/binnenland/%29/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/2006/12_december/21/binnenland/1221_1430_sportprijzen2006.xml|work= |publisher=www.rtl.nl|date=12 December 2006|accessdate=22 February 2010}}</ref> She was also elected female skater of the year.
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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Wüst is [[coming out|openly]] [[bisexual]].<ref name="out">{{cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/blwe/02-12-10?page=0,1 |title=Meet Your 2010 Lesbian Olympians |date=12 February 2010 |accessdate=4 January 2012 |work=[[AfterEllen.com]]}}</ref><ref name="Gelukkig met man">{{Cite news |title=Ireen Wüst gelukkig met man |periodical=[[De Telegraaf]] |url=http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/21435242/__Ireen_Wust_gelukkig_met_man__.html |date=29 March 2013 |accessdate=31 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Ook Ireen Wüst kan- als biseksueel – in Sochi in de cel terechtkomen' |author=[[Boris Dittrich]] |url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/3184/opinie/article/detail/3481470/2013/07/25/Ook-Ireen-Wust-kan--als-biseksueel---in-Sochi-in-de-cel-terechtkomen.dhtml |newspaper=[[De Volkskrant]] |date=25 July 2013 |accessdate=27 July 2013}}</ref>
Wüst is [[coming out|openly]] [[bisexual]].<ref name="out">{{cite web|url=http://www.afterellen.com/blwe/02-12-10?page=0,1 |title=Meet Your 2010 Lesbian Olympians |date=12 February 2010 |accessdate=4 January 2012 |work=[[AfterEllen.com]] |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120723012726/http://www.afterellen.com/blwe/02-12-10?page=0,1 |archivedate=23 July 2012 |df= }}</ref><ref name="Gelukkig met man">{{Cite news |title=Ireen Wüst gelukkig met man |periodical=[[De Telegraaf]] |url=http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/21435242/__Ireen_Wust_gelukkig_met_man__.html |date=29 March 2013 |accessdate=31 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Ook Ireen Wüst kan- als biseksueel – in Sochi in de cel terechtkomen' |author=[[Boris Dittrich]] |url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/3184/opinie/article/detail/3481470/2013/07/25/Ook-Ireen-Wust-kan--als-biseksueel---in-Sochi-in-de-cel-terechtkomen.dhtml |newspaper=[[De Volkskrant]] |date=25 July 2013 |accessdate=27 July 2013}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 17:29, 14 April 2017

Ireen Wüst
Ireen Wüst in 2013
Personal information
Born (1986-04-01) 1 April 1986 (age 38)
Goirle, Netherlands
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
WebsiteOfficial website
Sport
Country Netherlands
SportSpeed skating
ClubIJsclub Tilburg
TVM Schaatsploeg
Turned pro2005
Medal record
Women's speed skating
Representing the Netherlands
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 4 3 1
World Allround 6 3 2
World Sprint 0 1 0
World Distance 12 13 1
European Allround 5 4 2
Total 27 24 6
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2006 Turin 3000 m
Gold medal – first place 2010 Vancouver 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi 3000 m
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2014 Sochi 5000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Turin 1500 m
World Allround Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Heerenveen Allround
Gold medal – first place 2011 Calgary Allround
Gold medal – first place 2012 Moscow Allround
Gold medal – first place 2013 Hamar Allround
Gold medal – first place 2014 Heerenveen Allround
Gold medal – first place 2017 Hamar Allround
Silver medal – second place 2008 Berlin Allround
Silver medal – second place 2015 Calgary Allround
Silver medal – second place 2016 Berlin Allround
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Hamar Allround
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Heerenveen Allround
World Sprint Championships
Silver medal – second place 2007 Hamar Sprint
World Single Distance Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Salt Lake City 1000 m
Gold medal – first place 2007 Salt Lake City 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2008 Nagano Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2011 Inzell 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2011 Inzell 3000 m
Gold medal – first place 2012 Heerenveen Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2013 Sochi 1500 m
Gold medal – first place 2013 Sochi 3000 m
Gold medal – first place 2013 Sochi Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Kolomna Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2017 Gangneung 3000 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 Gangneung Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2007 Salt Lake City Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2009 Vancouver 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2009 Vancouver Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2011 Inzell 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Inzell Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2012 Heerenveen 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2013 Sochi 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2013 Sochi 5000 m
Silver medal – second place 2015 Heerenveen 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2015 Heerenveen 3000 m
Silver medal – second place 2015 Heerenveen Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2016 Kolomna 3000 m
Silver medal – second place 2017 Gangneung 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Heerenveen 3000 m
European Allround Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Kolomna Allround
Gold medal – first place 2013 Heerenveen Allround
Gold medal – first place 2014 Hamar Allround
Gold medal – first place 2015 Chelyabinsk Allround
Gold medal – first place 2017 Heerenveen Allround
Silver medal – second place 2007 Collalbo Allround
Silver medal – second place 2010 Hamar Allround
Silver medal – second place 2011 Collalbo Allround
Silver medal – second place 2016 Minsk Allround
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Hamar Allround
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Budapest Allround

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. In the 2014 Winter Olympic Games she won 2 gold and 3 silver medals. She is the most successful athlete of the Netherlands at the Winter Olympics. She is also a six-time world allround champion, a twelve-time world single distance champion, and a five-time European allround champion. In 2014 she was elected by Reuters as the Sportswoman of the World.

Skating career

Wüst debuted at the 2004 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships in November 2003 with 9th places in 500 m and 1500 m. At the end of the season she won the silver medal in the world junior championships in Roseville, Minnesota, USA. The next season she qualified for the 2004–05 World Cup during the 2005 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships with a 5th place in the 1000 m and 4th place in the 1500 m. With a 3rd place at the 2005 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships she qualified for her first international senior tournament, the 2005 European Championships in Heerenveen. There she came 4th and secured herself a spot in the Dutch team for the 2005 World Allround Championships in Moscow, Russia, where she finished in 5th place. She then became World Junior Champion in Seinäjoki, Finland.

Season 2005–2006

Before the start of the season Wüst signed a deal with TVM and started training under the guidance of Gerard Kemkers. At the 2006 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships, which also served as the Olympic Trials, Wüst won the 1000 m, 1500 m and 3000 m, which gave her a spot in the Dutch Olympic Team for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Before the Olympics she started in the 2006 European Championships in Hamar where she won the bronze medal behind Claudia Pechstein of Germany and teammate Renate Groenewold.

Olympic Games in Turin

At the Olympics her first distance was the 3000 m[1] where Wüst beat Groenewold and Cindy Klassen of Canada and became the youngest olympic champion from the Netherlands in the history of the Winter Olympics. She missed out the podium in the 1000 m finishing 4th. At her last event the 1500 m she won a bronze medal behind Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves of Canada. At her last event of the season the 2006 World Allround Championships, Wüst ended 4th after she had been ill a few days before the tournament.[2]

After the end of the season Wüst was elected as the best Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 2006.[3] She was also elected female skater of the year.

Season 2006–2007

Wüst started the season with two titles and one second place at the 2007 Dutch Distance Championships. She also won the 2007 Dutch Allround Championships. At the 2007 European Championships Wüst led the championships after 3 of 4 distances but was beaten by Martina Sáblíková. The next weekend she competed in the 2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, receiving the silver medal again. At the European Championships when she became World Allround Champion during the 2007 World Allround Championships for the homecrowd in Heerenveen. She won the 2006–07 World Cup in the 1500 m after winning two of the six races, as well as the 1000 m during the World Cup Final in Calgary. At the 2007 World Distance Championships she won gold medals in the 1000 m, breaking the national record, and the 1500 m. With Renate Groenewold and Paulien van Deutekom she won silver in the team pursuit behind Canada.

Season 2007–2008

After a difficult start to the season Wüst won the European title all round in January 2008.[4] Her main competitor this year was Paulien van Deutekom. Wüst ended 2nd behind van Deutekom during the World Allround Championships in Berlin. In Nagano during the 2008 World Distance Championships she won the gold medal in the team pursuit alongside Groenewold and Van Deutekom. Wüst won only one world race this season, the 1500 m in Hamar.

2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver

At the Olympics she won a gold medal at the 1500 m.[5]

2014 Olympic Games in Sochi

At the Olympics she won a gold medal at the 3000 metres and at the team pursuit, and silver medals at the 1000, 1500 and 5000 metres.[6][7]

Records

Personal records
500 m 38.44 9 February 2007 Thialf, Heerenveen
1000 m 1:13.33 17 November 2013 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City ER
1500 m 1:52.08 16 November 2013 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City ER
3000 m 3:58.01 12 February 2011 Olympic Oval, Calgary
5000 m 6:54.28 19 February 2014 Adler Arena Skating Center, Sochi
Team pursuit 2:56.02 17 November 2013 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City ER

Personal life

Wüst is openly bisexual.[8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ "Ireen Wust Biography". www.sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "Wüst vierde halverwege WK allround" (in Dutch). Omroep Brabant. 18 March 2006. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
  3. ^ "Bos en Wüst sporters van het jaar". www.rtl.nl. 12 December 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ "Kramer and Wüst win at European Championships". The New York Times. 3 January 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2010. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ "Results of the 2010 Olympic Games 1500 meters Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  6. ^ Kevin Oklobzija (9 February 2014). "Ireen Wust wins 3,000; Olga Graf claims Russia's first Sochi medal". USA Today.
  7. ^ "Speedskating: Versatile Jorien ter Mors beats Ireen Wust, leads another Dutch sweep". The Washington Post. 16 February 2014.
  8. ^ "Meet Your 2010 Lesbian Olympians". AfterEllen.com. 12 February 2010. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2012. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "Ireen Wüst gelukkig met man". De Telegraaf. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  10. ^ Boris Dittrich (25 July 2013). "'Ook Ireen Wüst kan- als biseksueel – in Sochi in de cel terechtkomen'". De Volkskrant. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
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