Alyson Dudek

Alyson Dudek is an American short track speed skater from Hales Corners, Wisconsin, born on July 30, 1990. She is a fourth-generation Polish American. As a younger skater she trained in both long track and short track speed skating before choosing to specialize in short track, and she qualified for her first World Cup team while still a high school student, finishing her schooling through an online correspondence course while training in Salt Lake City. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver she raced the 500 metres, where she did not get past the quarterfinals, and was part of the United States 3000 metre relay team that won the bronze medal behind China and Canada after South Korea was disqualified. She qualified for the 2014 Olympic team at the U.S. trials, her second trip to the Games. In late 2014 she took part in the 26th season of the reality television series The Amazing Race with her boyfriend, the bobsledder Steven Langton, and the pair were sent home in sixth place.