Casper Helling
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Casper Helling is a Dutch
speedskater
, specialising in marathon skating and the longer distances. On 15 March 2007 at the Utah Olympic Oval
in Salt Lake City, Helling skated 41.969 km in one hour, which is the current world record in this event. Helling's result was 300 m better than the previous world record, set by Henk Angenent
in March 2004. Among his other achievements is a gold medal on the 10,000-m in the Dutch single distances championship for the 2001–2002 season. In recent years Casper Helling has won 3 races of 200 km distance on natural ice: Kuopio, Finland, in 2004, Kuopio, Finland in 2008 and Weissensee, Austria in 2009.
As of March 2007, Helling's personal records are 40.37 (500-m), 1:58.00 (1500-m), 6:50.10 (5000-m) and 13:56.31 (10000-m).
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
speedskater
Speed skating
Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...
, specialising in marathon skating and the longer distances. On 15 March 2007 at the Utah Olympic Oval
Utah Olympic Oval
The Utah Olympic Oval, an indoor speed skating oval built for the 2002 Winter Olympics, is located southwest of Salt Lake City, in Kearns, Utah. The Oval hosted the long track speed skating events for the 2002 games. Inside the facility the 400-meter skating track surrounds two international sized...
in Salt Lake City, Helling skated 41.969 km in one hour, which is the current world record in this event. Helling's result was 300 m better than the previous world record, set by Henk Angenent
Henk Angenent
Henk Angenent was a Dutch speed skater, specialising in marathon skating and the longer distances. On 12 March 2004 in Calgary, Angenent skated 41.669 km in one hour, which was the world record in this event until 15 March 2007, when Casper Helling skated 300 metres more...
in March 2004. Among his other achievements is a gold medal on the 10,000-m in the Dutch single distances championship for the 2001–2002 season. In recent years Casper Helling has won 3 races of 200 km distance on natural ice: Kuopio, Finland, in 2004, Kuopio, Finland in 2008 and Weissensee, Austria in 2009.
As of March 2007, Helling's personal records are 40.37 (500-m), 1:58.00 (1500-m), 6:50.10 (5000-m) and 13:56.31 (10000-m).