Nick Thometz
{{short description|American speed skater}}
{{Infobox speed skater
| image = Nick Thometz.JPG
| headercolor = lightsteelblue
| full_name = Keith James Thometz
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|September 16, 1963}}
| birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
| show-medals = didnt win
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's speed skating }}
{{MedalCountry | {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Sprint Championships }}
{{MedalSilver | 1987 Sainte Foy | Sprint }}
}}
Keith James "Nick" Thometz (born September 16, 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former ice speed-skater. For most of 1987 he held the World record for men's 500 meter speed skating. At the Speed Skating World Cup of 1986-1987 he won the 500 meter and 1000 meter divisions. He also won a silver medal at the 1987 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men. He competed in the Winter Olympic Games three times, but never medaled.
World records
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Event | Time | Date | Venue |
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500 m | 0.36,55 | March 19, 1987 | align=left|{{flagicon|NED}} Heerenveen |
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com{{cite web |title=Nick Thometz |url=http://www.speedskatingstats.com/index.php?file=skater&code=1963091601 |publisher=SpeedSkatingStats.com |accessdate=29 August 2012}}
References
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External links
- {{ISU speed skater|97775}}
- [http://www.speedskatingstats.com/index.php?file=skater&code=1963091601 Nick Thometz] at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- {{Olympics.com profile|nick-thometz}}
- {{SR/Olympics|th/nick-thometz-1}}
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Category:American male speed skaters
Category:Olympic speed skaters for the United States
Category:Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Category:Speed skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Category:Speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Minneapolis
Category:World record setters in speed skating
Category:World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
Category:20th-century American sportsmen
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