Bonnie Blair

Bonnie Blair
Full name	Bonnie Kathleen Blair
nation	United States
birthday	18th March 1964 (age 56)
place of birth	Cornwall ,  United States
size	165 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
Pers. Best times	500 m: 38.69 1000 m: 1: 18.05 1500 m: 2: 03.44 3000 m: 4: 47.60 5000 m: 8: 58.29
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
Olympic games 5 × 0 × 1 × Sprint World Championships 3 × 4 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold Calgary 1988 500 m bronze Calgary 1988 1,000 m gold Albertville 1992 500 m gold Albertville 1992 1,000 m gold Lillehammer 1994 500 m gold Lillehammer 1994 1,000 m  Sprint World Championships bronze Karuizawa 1986 All-around silver Sainte-Foy 1987 All-around bronze West Allis 1988 All-around gold Heerenveen 1989 All-around silver Tromso 1990 All-around silver Oslo 1992 All-around silver Ikaho 1993 All-around gold Calgary 1994 All-around gold Milwaukee 1995 All-around

Bonnie Blair (born March 18, 1964 in Cornwall , New York ) is a former American speed skater .

Career

Bonnie Blair is one of the most successful speed skaters in history with five gold medals at the Olympic Games.

Blair won gold over 500 meters and bronze over 1,000 meters at the 1988 Calgary Olympics . Four years later in Albertville , she won both the 500 and 1,000 meters. She was able to repeat this success in Lillehammer in 1994 . For the recent double success, Blair was named Athlete of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine in the same year . She was also honored with the Associated Press Athlete of the Year award .

She was coached by former cyclist and triathlete John Howard .

See also

• List of the most successful Winter Olympians

Web links

Commons : Bonnie Blair  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Statistics at speed skating news
• Bonnie Blair in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ John Howard - Performance Sports