Bart Swings

Bart Swings, born on 12 February 1991, is a Belgian long track speed skater who also competes in inline speed skating. He won silver in the first mass start event ever held at the Winter Olympics, in Pyeongchang in 2018, and four years later became the 2022 Olympic mass start champion, Belgium's second Winter Olympic gold medal and the first for an individual man. At the World Games he has won seven medals, four of them gold. He took bronze at the 2013 World Allround Championships in Hamar and bronze in the mass start at the 2021 World Single Distances Championships. In 2022 he set a course record of 56:45 at the Berlin Marathon on inline skates, and in 2023 he received the Belgian National Sports Merit Award.