John Celski

John Celski
Full name	John Robert Celski
nation	United States
birthday	17th July 1990
place of birth	Monterey , California ,  USA
size	173 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
National squad	since 2006
Pers. Best times	39.937 sec. (500 m, Calgary 2013; current world record)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 3 × 4 × 4 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze 2010 Vancouver 1500 m bronze 2010 Vancouver 5000 m relay silver 2014 Sochi 5000 m relay  Short track world championships gold 2009 Vienna 3000 m gold 2009 Vienna 5000 m relay silver 2009 Vienna All-around bronze 2009 Vienna 1000 m bronze 2009 Vienna 1500 m silver 2010 Sofia 5000 m relay bronze 2010 Sofia 1000 m bronze 2010 Sofia 3000 m gold 2014 Montreal 3000 m superfinal silver 2014 Montreal All-around silver 2014 Montreal 500 m  Short track junior world championships bronze 2006 Miercurea Ciuc 500 m gold 2009 Sherbrooke 500 m gold 2009 Sherbrooke 3000 m relay silver 2009 Sherbrooke 1500 m bronze 2009 Sherbrooke total
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup October 18, 2008  World Cup victories 1
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 1 3 3  Relay / team 1 1 0
last change: August 10, 2013

John Robert Celski (also JR Celski ; born July 17, 1990 in Monterey , California ) is an American short tracker .

Career

Celski's first international appearance was at the 2006 Junior World Championships in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania . There he reached the final over 500 meters and won the bronze medal in the victory of the German Robert Seifert . Since he also finished the other two courses, 1000 m and 1500 m, in good positions, he qualified for the super final of the best athletes of the Junior World Championships over 1500 meters. Here he was sixth, overall he was eighth.

Celski had already been seen as a new great American talent and as the successor to Apolo Anton Ohno , especially since he was a member of the same inline skate club as Ohno. Nevertheless, he was not used in the World Cup or in other major events in the following season, and he was not used in the 2007/08 season . For this, Celski started for the second time at a Junior World Championship, this time in Bolzano, Italy . Here he was able to achieve three fourth places, but he was denied a medal. Also in the overall standings he narrowly missed the podium in fifth.

It was only in the Short Track World Cup in 2008/09 that he made his first appearance in the highest competition series and immediately placed fourth over 1500 meters in his first final placement. In addition, he was already World Cup winner in his second race with the American relay in Vancouver , he triumphed together with Ohno, Jeff Simon and Anthony Lobello .

At the Short Track World Championships in Vienna in 2009 , Celski surprised by winning the gold medal over 3000 m and the relay over 5000 m. He also won bronze in the 1000 and 1500 m and silver with 65 points in the overall standings. At the Olympic Games in the United States in September 2009, Celski was able to reach second place overall, but suffered a serious injury in the 500 m final in a fall, after which he had to go through a strict rehab program for five months and then returned short track sport has long been in question. Just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Celski was fit again and won the 1500 m and bronze medal in the relay. In the 1000 m race he was disqualified after a handicap from François Hamelin .

Just a few weeks after the games, Celski started at the 2010 Short Track World Championships in Sofia . After winning all the heats, he reached the 1500 m final. There he had to admit defeat to the three South Koreans and in the end just barely missed a medal in fourth. During the preliminary heats over 500 m Celski was involved in a fall of the Canadian François-Louis Tremblay and later disqualified. In the final over 1000 m he won the bronze medal behind Lee Ho-Suk and Kwak Yoon-Gy . In fourth place in the overall standings, he again narrowly missed out on a medal.

After the World Cup, Celski announced that he would take a year off from the short track. During this time he produced a documentary for the Northwest Hip Hop Scene under the title "The Otherside". The film premiered on May 31, 2013 at the Seattle International Film Festival .

In the summer of 2011, Celski came back to the short track. However, he had to take another break in December 2011 after injuring his ankle. This ultimately led to the cancellation of participation in the 2012 Short Track World Championships . In September 2012 he won the US championships and secured a place in the World Cup squad. At the first World Cup in Calgary , Celski was the first short tracker to run the 500 m in under 40 seconds and set a new world record with 39.937 seconds. With this achievement he also won the World Cup. However, it remained his only win of the season. However, he was able to achieve three second and three third places.

Celski won the silver medal with the relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . At the 2014 World Cup in Montreal , he became world champion in the 3000 m superfinals and achieved silver in the all-around and over 500 m.

Private

Born in Monterey , California , where his father Robert Celski served in the United States Army , Celski grew up in Federal Way , Washington. His father is Polish and his mother is Filipino. John Celski has two brothers, Chris and David. He attended Lakewood High School in Lakewood and later the Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, which he successfully completed. After the 2010 Olympics, Celski began studying at the University of California at Berkeley , but dropped out a short time later and began working as a promoter for the Seattle art scene. Celski now lives in Salt Lake City .

Web links

• John Celski at ISU
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detailed newspaper article on Celski's biography in the Seattle Times (December 20, 2005)
2. ↑ Results in the Saarbrücker Zeitung  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Results WM 2009 - overall ranking men
4. ↑ Speed ​​skater JR Celski overcomes bloody injury to capture bronze , CNN. February 14, 2010. Archived from the original on September 25, 2010. Retrieved on August 10, 2013. 
5. ↑ Fil-Am speed skater Celski disqualified event in Winter Olympics , ABS-CBN Corporation. February 22, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2013. 
6. ↑ 2010 ISU World Championships, BUL, Sofia - 5000 m Relay - Men . ISU. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
7. ↑ Asiance Magazine profile of JR Celski , Asiance Magazine . January 31, 2010. Archived from the original on August 31, 2010. Retrieved on August 10, 2013. 
8. ↑ JR Celski Tattoo Is Both Philippine And Polish , Trick Wire. February 21, 2010. Archived from the original on August 31, 2010. Retrieved on August 10, 2013. 
9. ↑ Meet JR Celski: A Filipino-American with the Heart of a Lion . In: Bleacher Report . Retrieved August 10, 2013. 
10. ↑ Christie Succop: Going for the Gold: JR Celski , USOC. September 4, 2009. Archived from the original on March 10, 2010 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved August 10, 2013.  
11. ^ Riley Steinmetz: JR Celski is MAD about Seattle arts , USOC. April 8, 2010. Retrieved August 10, 2013.