Dan Jansen
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Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
Born | June 17, 1965 (age 59) West Allis, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | ||||||||||||
Website | Dan Jansen official website | ||||||||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||
Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||
Turned pro | 1982 | ||||||||||||
Retired | 1994 | ||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 500 m: 35.76 (1994) 1000 m: 1:12.43 (1994) 1500 m: 1:55.62 (1993) 3000 m: 4:25.63 (1983) 5000 m: 7:50.22 (1982) |
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Daniel Erwin "Dan" Jansen (born June 17, 1965) is a retired American speed skater. A multiple world champion in sprint and perennial favorite at the Winter Olympics, he won a gold medal in his final race (1,000 meters) in the 1994 Winter Olympics at the end of his career.
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Early career
Dan Jansen is the youngest of nine children born to Geraldine (née Grajek) Jansen (b. 1928), a nurse,[1] and Harry Jansen (1928-2015), who retired from the police department as a lieutenant detective. His family is Roman Catholic. His three surviving sisters are all nurses. Two of his brothers are policemen and one is a firefighter. He graduated from West Allis Central High School. Inspired by his sister Jane (later Mrs. Beres; 1960-1988), he took up speed skating while growing up. He set a junior world record in the 500 meter race at age sixteen, and finished sixteenth in the 1,000 meters and fourth in the 500 meters at the 1984 Winter Olympics.[2]
Competitive history
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. In 1988, Jansen became the World Sprint Champion, then he was off to the 1988 Winter Olympics where he was a favorite for the 500 and 1,000 meter races. In the early hours of February 14, the day of the 500 meter event, Jansen was informed that his 27-year-old sister Jane Marie Beres was dying of leukemia. Jansen spoke to her on the phone but was unable to receive a response. A few hours later, Jansen was notified of his sister's death.
Jansen went on to compete in the 500 meter race that afternoon but fell in the first turn. Four days later in the 1,000 meter event, he began with record-breaking speed but fell again, just past the 800 meter mark. He left the 1988 Olympics with no medals but became the recipient of the U.S. Olympic Spirit Award for his valiant efforts. In the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, he finished fourth in the 500 meters and twenty-sixth in the 1,000 meters, and left the games with no medals. In 1993, Jansen set a world record in the 500 meters event and was cast as a favorite to win the gold medal in the event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
Between the 1992 and 1994 Olympics, Jansen was the only skater to break 36 seconds in the 500 meters, doing so four times. In 1994, Jansen won his second World Sprint Championships title, and he arrived at the 1994 Winter Olympics for one final attempt at an Olympic medal.
In the 500 meter event, he finished eighth. In preparation for the 1,000 meter event, he was coached by Peter Mueller, who won the same event in the 1976 Winter Olympics. Jansen defied expectations and finished first, winning his first and only Olympic medal of his career, while setting a new world record in the process. He received the 1994 James E. Sullivan Award and was chosen by his fellow Olympians to bear the U.S. flag at the closing ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympics. He was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.
Personal life
Jansen has two daughters from his first marriage to Robin Wicker. His second wife, Karen Palacios, is a top golf teaching professional. He was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in 2004. Today, Dan Jansen is a speed skating commentator for NBC, and, from 2005-07, he was the skating coach for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.[citation needed]
He established the Dan Jansen Foundation in memory of his sister, with the purpose of fighting leukemia. He is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.[3]
Records
World records
Over the course of his career, Jansen set eight world records in speed skating:
Event | Time | Date | Venue |
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500 m | 0.36,41 | January 25, 1992 | Davos |
500 m | 36.41 | March 19, 1993 | Calgary |
500 m | 36.02 | March 20, 1993 | Calgary |
Sprint combination | 145.580 | March 20, 1993 | Calgary |
500 m | 35.92 | December 4, 1993 | Hamar |
500 m | 35.76 | January 30, 1994 | Calgary |
Sprint combination | 144.815 | January 30, 1994 | Calgary |
1000 m | 1.12,43 | February 18, 1994 | Hamar |
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com[4]
Personal records
Distance | Result | Date | Location |
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500 m | 35.76 | January 30, 1994 | Calgary |
1000 m | 1:12.43 | February 18, 1994 | Hamar |
1500 m | 1:55.62 | March 14, 1993 | Heerenveen |
3000 m | 4:25.63 | March 5, 1983 | Sarajevo |
5000 m | 7:50.22 | February 7, 1982 | Inzell |
Source: SpeedskatingResults.com[5]
References
- ↑ Obituary for Margaret Grajek Jankowski (Jansen's maternal aunt), legacy.com; accessed July 10, 2015.
- ↑ Obituary for Harry Jansen, legacy.com; accessed July 10, 2015.
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Links
- Dan Jansen profile, SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Profile, skatebase.com
- Biography, espn.go.com
- Dan Jansen's U.S. Olympic Team biodata
- Dan Jansen Skates into Second Season as Chicago Skating Coach, NHL.com
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- Articles with unsourced statements from July 2015
- 1965 births
- Living people
- American male speed skaters
- American people of Dutch descent
- James E. Sullivan Award recipients
- Olympic speed skaters of the United States
- Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Former world record holders in speed skating
- People from West Allis, Wisconsin
- Olympic medalists in speed skating
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States