Catriona LeMay Doan

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Catriona LeMay Doan carries the Olympic torch at the 2010 Olympic Games

Catriona Ann LeMay Doan (born December 23, 1970 in Saskatoon ) is a former Canadian speed skater .

Catriona LeMay Doan won the 500m at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano , Japan and at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City , Utah. For this reason she received the title “Fastest Woman on the Ice”. At the Olympic Games in Nagano, she also won the bronze medal over 1000 m. She was sprint world champion in 1998 and 2002 and world champion over 500 m in 1998, 1999 and 2001. In 2000 she took 3rd place over 500 m at the World Championships. She has also won the overall world cup over 500 m four times (1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002) and once the overall world cup over 1000 m (1998).

On November 22, 1997, she ran in Calgary over 500 m 37.90s, making it the first woman to stay under 38 seconds. In the following five years it improved the record six times and so it ran 37.22s in December 2001. No other speed skater improved a world record on one track eight times in a row.

However, it was a long way before Catriona could fight for Olympic gold and world records. At the Olympic Games in 1994 she fell over 500 m and over 1500 m she reached 17th place as her best result. Before the games in Nagano, she trained with her teammate and rival Susan Auch with Susan's brother, Derrick Auch . In Nagano, Susan also came second over 500 m, with Catriona taking first place. Meanwhile she trained with the Canadian sprint trainer Sean Ireland .

Catriona is married to Bart Doan, a rodeo cowboy and ice master at the Olympic Oval, and cousin of NHL - hockey player Shane Doan. In 2002 she published her biography "Going for Gold".

She resigned in 2003 and had a daughter a year later. At the Summer Games in Athens (2004) she worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a commentator and she was part of the Canadian representation in the choice of Vancouver as the venue for the 2010 Olympic Games . At the opening ceremony of the Games on February 12, 2010, she was one of the final runners of the Olympic torch relay with Wayne Gretzky , Nancy Greene and Steve Nash , but was unable to light the Olympic flame together with Gretzky, Greene and Nash due to a technical breakdown.

In 2005 she was inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame (Sports) and received the title of Officer in the Order of Canada . She was a commentator during the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin and is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

Catriona LeMay Doan has been a professed Christian since the mid-1990s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Faz.net : Sparkling Idea
  2. Jump up ↑ Sprinting for God by Catriona LeMay Doan
personal data
SURNAME LeMay Doan, Catriona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LeMay Doan, Catriona Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Saskatoon , Saskatchewan