Christine Nesbitt

	Christine Nesbitt
nation	Canada
birthday	May 17, 1985
place of birth	Melbourne , Australia
Career
status	active
Medal table
winter Olympics
All around world championships
Sprint World Championships
Individual distance world championships
	Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup	2004/05
World Cup victories	39
Total toilet 1000	1. ( 2008/09 ), ( 2009/10 ), ; ( 2011/12 ), 2. ( 2010/11 )
Total toilet 1500	1. ( 2010/11 ), ( 2011/12 ), ; 2. ( 2007/08 ), ( 2009/10 ), ; 3. ( 2008/09 )
	last change: April 19, 2013

Christine Nesbitt (born May 17, 1985 in Melbourne ) is a Canadian speed skater and Olympic champion 2010 in Vancouver .

Career

Beginnings

In London , Ontario , Christine Nesbitt began speed skating as a short track runner at the age of twelve . There she also attended Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School . Nesbitt was one of the best juniors on the short track in Ontario and set several provincial records.

National and international

In 1999 Christine Nesbitt won the 3,000 meter competition with Ontario's short track relay at the Canada Winter Games , and in 2003 she achieved bronze in the same discipline. In 2003, Nesbitt switched from the short track to the longer speed skating distances and moved to Calgary for training . She was accepted into the Canadian national team and has competed in the World Cup of the International Skating Union since 2005 . In spring 2005 Christine Nesbitt won the Canadian "Rising Star Award" over the long haul.

Nesbitt took part over the distances of 1000 and 1500 meters and in the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . With a time of 1: 17.54 minutes she reached fourteenth place over the 1000 meters and seventh place over the 1500 meters with 1: 59.15. In the team pursuit, Christine Nesbitt set an Olympic record together with Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves on February 15, 2006. One day later they finished second behind the team from Germany in the final and won silver.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she won the 1000 m race. At the sprint world championship in 2011 Nesbitt won the world title in Heerenveen , at the all- around world championship in the same year she was second behind Ireen Wüst .

At the Sprint World Championships 2012 in Calgary , Canada , Nesbitt improved the world record held by Cindy Klassen in the 1000 meter race in the local Olympic Oval by 43 hundredths to 1: 12.68 and was the first woman to break the 1: 13.00. In the sprint four-way fight, she finished second. For the world record she was honored with the Oscar Mathisen Award , the speed skating Oscar, in the same year . Her record lasted until November 17, 2013, when Brittany Bowe beat it by 10 hundredths. Nesbitt is also currently co-owner of the world record in team pursuit, which was set in Calgary in 2009.

Nesbitt won two gold medals at the 2012 World Individual Distance Championships in Heerenveen . She won the 1000 and 1500 meters. In the team pursuit, she also took second place.

Personal records

Records
route	time	set up on	place
500 meters	37.59 sec	January 21, 2011	Salt Lake City
1000 meters	1: 12.68 min (WR)	January 28, 2012	Calgary
1500 meters	1: 52.75 min	November 10, 2007	Salt Lake City
3000 meters	4: 03.44 min	February 12, 2011	Calgary
5000 meters	7:07:15 min	January 13, 2008	Calgary
Team tracking	2: 55.79 min (WR)	4th December 2009	Calgary

Web links

Christine Nesbitt in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Official website of Christine Nesbitt
Speed Skating Canada Bio
Photos by Christine Nesbitt at DESGphoto
Statistics at speed skating news

personal data
SURNAME	Nesbitt, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne , Australia