Gianni Rummy

Gianni Rummy
Full name	Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme
nation	Netherlands
birthday	February 12, 1973
place of birth	Location Zwaluwe
size	1.90 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 2 × 1 × 0 × M-World Championship medals 2 × 0 × 0 × E-World Cup medals 7 × 2 × 3 × M-EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Nagano 1998 5000 m gold Nagano 1998 10,000 m silver Salt Lake City 2002 10,000 m  All around world championships gold Milwaukee 2000 All-around gold Gothenburg 2003 All-around  Individual distance world championships bronze Hamar 1996 5000 m gold Hamar 1996 10,000 m silver Warsaw 1997 5000 m gold Warsaw 1997 10,000 m gold Calgary 1998 5000 m gold Calgary 1998 10,000 m gold Heerenveen 1999 5000 m silver Heerenveen 1999 10,000 m gold Nagano 2000 5000 m gold Nagano 2000 10,000 m bronze Salt Lake City 2001 5000 m bronze Seoul 2004 5000 m  All-around European Championships gold Heerenveen 2003 All-around

Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme (born February 12, 1973 in Lage Zwaluwe ) is a Dutch speed skater and trainer.

Career

Romme was world champion in all-around competitions in Milwaukee in 2000 and in Gothenburg in 2003 . In 2003 he also won the title at the all- around European championships in Heerenveen .

Romme won seven titles at the World Single Distance Championships . He won over 10,000 meters four times (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000) and three times over 5000 meters (1998, 1999, 2000).

At the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano , Romme was Olympic champion over 5000 meters and 10,000 meters. Four years later he won silver in Salt Lake City over 10,000 meters behind his compatriot Jochem Uytdehaage .

Romme set eight world records during his career and led the nobility calendar for 118 days. For his successes in 2000 he was awarded the Oscar Mathisen Memorial Trophy .

Since the 2006/2007 season, Romme has also been working as a speed skating trainer, including the German Olympic champion Anni Friesinger-Postma .

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	36.97 sec	February 2, 2002	Salt Lake City
1000 m	1: 14.33 min	December 11, 1999	Inzell
1500 m	1: 47.88 min	February 2, 2002	Salt Lake City
3000 m	3: 40.02 min	February 3, 2002	Salt Lake City
5000 m	6: 14.70 min	November 20, 2004	Berlin
10,000 m	13: 03.40 min 1	November 26, 2000	Heerenveen

¹ World record at the time of the run

Web links

Commons : Gianni Romme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Statistics at speed skating news
• Gianni Romme in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official website of Gianni Romme (Dutch)
• Photos by Gianni Romme