Nick Thometz
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| Full name | Keith James Thometz | ||||||||||||||
| Born | September 16, 1963 (age 61) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Keith James "Nick" Thometz (born September 16, 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former ice speed-skater. For most of 1987 he held the World record for men's 500 meter speed skating. At the Speed Skating World Cup of 1986-1987 he won the 500 meter and 1000 meter divisions. He also won a silver medal at the 1987 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men. He competed in the Winter Olympic Games three times, but never medaled.
World records
[edit]| Event | Time | Date | Venue |
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| 500 m | 0.36,55 | March 19, 1987 |  Heerenveen
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Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nick Thometz". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
External links
[edit]- Nick Thometz at the International Skating Union
- Nick Thometz at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Nick Thometz at Olympics.com
- Nick Thometz at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- Living people
- American male speed skaters
- Olympic speed skaters for the United States
- Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Minneapolis
- World record setters in speed skating
- World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
- American speed skating biography stubs