Jan Bos
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| Born | 29 March 1975[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 83 kg (183 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jan Bos (born 29 March 1975) is a Dutch former speedskater and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Speed skater
[edit | edit source]In 1998 Bos both became the world champion sprint and won the silver medal that year in the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano. He won the silver medal on that same distance in Salt Lake City.
He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in the team sprint track cycling event, together with his brother Theo Bos, who won the silver at the individual sprint, and Teun Mulder. The Dutch finished sixth after being knocked out by Japan.
Bos ended his career as a competitive speed skater in 2011.
Cyclist
[edit | edit source]In 2012 Bos (in cooperation with the Human Power Team from Delft) tried to become the fastest cyclist in the world during the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada. At the time, the International Human Powered Vehicle Association record was 133 km/h, held by the Canadian Sam Whittingham.[2] Bos used a recumbent bicycle specially developed for the occasion by students of the Delft University of Technology and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, but only managed a maximum speed of 126.5 km/h. In September 2013, his teammate Sebastiaan Bowier did manage to break the record, reaching a speed of 133.78 kilometres per hour (83.13 mph)[3]
Records
[edit | edit source]Personal records
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| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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| 500 meter | 34.72 | 12 February 2002 | Salt Lake City | |
| 1000 meter | 1:07.20 | 22 March 2009 | Calgary | |
| 1500 meter | 1:44.87 | 4 March 2007 | Calgary | |
| 3000 meter | 3:50.53 | 16 March 2001 | Calgary | |
| 5000 meter | 6:46.59 | 17 March 2001 | Calgary | |
| 10000 meter | 15:23.18 | 11 March 1993 | Heerenveen | |
Bos specialized in the sprint events but does have an Adelsalender score of 156.494
Source: www.sskating.com[4] & SpeedskatingResults.com[5]
World records
[edit | edit source]| Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes |
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| 1000 meter | 1:10.63 | 22 November 1997 | Calgary | World record until 23 November 1997 |
| 1000 meter | 1:08.55 | 21 February 1999 | Calgary | World record until 12 January 2000 |
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com[6]
Tournament overview
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- DNF = Did not finish
- DQ = Disqualified
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Jan Bos at the International Skating Union (archived)
- Jan Bos at SpeedSkatingStats.com
- Jan Bos at Olympics.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Jan Bos at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Jan Bos at Olympic.org (archived)
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- Jan Bos at InterSportStats
- Photos of Jan Bos at the Wayback Machine (archived April 26, 2006)
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Harderwijk
- Speed skaters from Gelderland
- Dutch male speed skaters
- Dutch male cyclists
- Dutch track cyclists
- Speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in speed skating
- World record setters in speed skating
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
- Dutch speed skating coaches
- Dutch sports coaches
- Cyclists from Gelderland
- 21st-century Dutch sportsmen
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen