Jeremy Wotherspoon

Jeremy Wotherspoon is a Canadian speed skater, born on 26 October 1976 in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, and widely regarded as one of the greatest sprinters in the sport's history. He grew up in Red Deer, Alberta, where a power skating class meant to help his ice hockey led him to speed skating, and he chose long track and moved to Calgary to train with the national team at seventeen. He finished with a record 67 World Cup wins at 500 and 1000 metres, was a four-time World Sprint Champion and thirteen-time World Cup overall champion, and broke the 500 metre world record three times and the 1000 metre record seven times. He won silver in the 500 metres at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano but did not reach the podium at the 2002 and 2006 Games.