Jan Bos

Jan Bos, born on 29 March 1975, is a Dutch former speed skater and sprint cyclist. In 1998 he became world sprint champion and won the silver medal in the 1000 metres at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, and he won silver over the same distance again in Salt Lake City; he competed at the Winter Olympics of 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010. He also took part in the team sprint in track cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens together with his brother Theo Bos, who won silver in the individual sprint, and Teun Mulder, and the Dutch finished sixth after being knocked out by Japan. He ended his career as a competitive speed skater in 2011. In 2012 he tried, with the Human Power Team from Delft, to become the fastest cyclist in the world at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada, riding a recumbent bicycle built by students of Delft University of Technology and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and reached a top speed of 126.5 km/h. His Adelskalender score is 156.494.