Catriona LeMay Doan
Catriona LeMay Doan Ann ( born December 23, 1970 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan ) is a former Canadian speed skater.
Catriona LeMay Doan won the 500 m at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. For this reason, she was awarded the title of " fastest woman on ice ". At the Olympic Games in Nagano, she won the bronze medal over 1000m in addition. She was sprint world champion in 1998 and 2002 and world champion in the 500m in the years 1998, 1999 and 2001. In 2000, she won 3rd place 500m at the World Championships. Moreover, it has four times won the overall World Cup over 500m (1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002 ) and once the World Cup over 1000m (1998).
On 22 November 1997, it was in Calgary over 500m 37.90 sec and was thus the first woman under 38 seconds. In the following five years, she improved the record six more times and so she ran in December 2001, see 37.22 No other speed skater improved the world record for a distance eight times in a row.
However, it was a long way to go before Catriona could fight for Olympic gold and world records. At the Olympic Games in 1994 she fell over 500m and 1500m they reached the 17th place as their best result. Prior to the Games in Nagano, she trained with her teammate and rival Susan Even at Susan's brother, Derrick, too. In Nagano Susan was also second over 500m, the winner was Catriona. Meanwhile, she trained at the Canadian sprint coach Sean Ireland.
Catriona is married to Bart Doan, a rodeo cowboy and ice master in the Olympic Oval, and a cousin of NHL hockey player Shane Doan. In 2002, she published her biography " Going for Gold".
In 2003 she announced her departure, and a year later she got her daughter Greta. In the Summer Games in Athens (2004), she worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a commentator and she belonged to the Canadian Mission to the choice of Vancouver as host of the Olympic Games 2010. During the opening ceremony of the Games on 12 February 2010 it belonged together with Wayne Gretzky, Nancy Greene and Steve Nash to the cage rotors of the Olympic torch relay, but could not go as planned ignite the Olympic Flame along with Gretzky, Greene and Nash due to a technical glitch.
In 2005 it found its way into the Canadian Hall of Fame ( sports) and was awarded the title of an officer in the Order of Canada. She was a commentator during the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, and is Ambassador of the athlete development organization Right to Play.
Catriona LeMay Doan is a confessing Christian since the mid- 1990s.