Christine Nesbitt
Christine Nesbitt (born 17 May 1985 in Melbourne ) is a Canadian speed skater and Olympic champion in Vancouver in 2010.
Career
In London, Ontario Christine Nesbitt began at the age of twelve years with the speed skating short track speed skating as a runner. Also, where she attended the Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School. Nesbitt was one of the best juniors in the short track speed skating in Ontario and presented several provincial records.
National and International
Christine Nesbitt won the 1999 with the short track speed skating relay Ontario to compete over 3,000 meters at the Canada Winter Games, 2003, she reached in the same discipline the bronze medal. In 2003, Nesbitt moved from short track speed skating to the longer distances and moved to Calgary for training. She was inducted into the Canadian national team and starts since 2005 in the World Cup, the International Skating Union. In the spring of 2005 Christine Nesbitt won the Canadian "Rising Star Award " over the long haul.
Nesbitt took part over the distances of 1000 and 1500 meters and in the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. With a time of 1:17,54 minutes she reached over 1000 meters the fourteenth rank, with 1:59,15 seventh place on the 1500 meters. In the team pursuit Christine Nesbitt presented along with Cindy Klassen and Kristina Groves on 15 February 2006 an Olympic record. A day later they finished the final in second place behind the team from Germany and thus won silver.
At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010, she won the race over 1000 meters. In the Sprint World Cup 2011 Nesbitt won the world title in Heerenveen, in the all-around world championship in the same year, she was second behind Ireen Wüst.
In the Sprint World Championship 2012 in Calgary, Canada Nesbitt improved in the local Olympic Oval in the 1000 meter race the hitherto held by Cindy Klassen world record by 43 hundredths 1:12,68 and was the first woman to be the mark of 1: 13,00 has undercut. In the sprint four- battle, they finally finished in second place. For the world record, she was honored in the same year with the Oscar Mathisen Award, the Speed Skating Academy. Her record had until November 17, 2013 stock when he was undercut by Brittany Bowe by 10 hundredths. Currently, Nesbitt is also co-owner of the world record in the team pursuit, which was set up in Calgary in 2009.
Nesbitt won two gold medals at the Single Distances Championships 2012 in Heerenveen. It defeated the 1000 and 1500 meters. In the team pursuit, they also took second place.