Kjeld Nuis | |
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Nationality: | Dutch |
Birth Date: | 10 November 1989 |
Birth Place: | Leiden, Netherlands |
Height: | 1.86 m |
Weight: | 87 kg |
Country: | Netherlands |
Event: | 1000 m, 1500 m |
Club: | Team Reggeborgh |
Show-Medals: | no |
Kjeld Nuis (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /kjɛlt nœys/; born in Leiden 10 November 1989) is a Dutch speed skater.[1]
Nuis specializes over the middle distances of 1000 and 1500 meters. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, he won the gold medal at the 1500 m and 1000 m events. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, he successfully defended his title on the 1500 m. He is the current holder of the world record over 1500 meters.
Nuis is a three-time Olympic champion, having won Olympic gold in both the 1000 and 1500 meters at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He won another gold in the 1500 meters four years later, improving Derek Parra's twenty-year-old Olympic Record to 1:43:21 in the process. He is also a two-time world single-distance champion over 1000 and 1500 meters. He is a multi-time world single distance medalist over 1000 and 1500 meters, a four-time season overall World Cup winner of the 1000 meters distance, and a two-time winner over 1500 meters.
On 10 March 2019, he set the world record for the 1500-meter event to 1:40:17 in the Utah Olympic Oval during the finals of the 2018–19 World Cup tour. A day earlier, in the same event, he also improved the 1000 meters world record to 1:06:18, which stood until bested by Pavel Kulizhnikov on 15 February 2020.
In Savalen, Norway on 17 March 2022, he set a new world speed skating record of 103 kilometers per hour, beating his previous 4-year-old record by 10 km/h.[2]
From 2014 until the end of 2018, Nuis was in a relationship with 2011 Jill Lauren de Robles. They have a son.
On 19 December 2018, Nuis was named Dutch Sportsman of the Year 2018 at the NOC NSF Sport Gala.
Nr. | Event | Result | Date | Location | Notes | |
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1. | 1:06.18 | 9 March 2019 | Salt Lake City | World record until 12 February 2020 | ||
2. | 1:40.17 | 10 March 2019 | Salt Lake City | Current world record |
Season | European Championships Single Distances | European Championships Sprint | World Championships Sprint | Olympic Games | World Cup GWC | ||||||||
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2009–10 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=8 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | ||||||||
2010–11 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 19th 1000m 20th 1500m | |||||||||
2011–12 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 1000m 1500m GWC | |||||||||
2012–13 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 20th 500m 1000m 11th 1500m | |||||||||
2013–14 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | ' | 39th 500m 1000m 10th 1500m 11th GWC | ||||||||
2014–15 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 1000m 1500m 4th GWC | |||||||||
2015–16 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 1000m 1500m GWC | |||||||||
2016–17 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 40th 500m 1000m 1500m GWC | ||||||||||
2017–18 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 1000m 1500m | 35th 500m 1000m 15th 1500m | |||||||
2018–19 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 37th 500m 1000m 1500m | |||||||||
2019–20 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | 4th 1000m 1500m Team sprint | |||||||
2020–21 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE rowspan=1 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 1500m | ||||||||
2021–22 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 1000m 1500m | ||||||||
2022–23 | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | bgcolor=#EEEEEE | 21st 1000m 1500m |
Season | 500 meter | ||||||||||||
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15th | 8th | – | – | 14th | 18th | 2nd(b) | – | 14th | 14th | 12th | – | ||
20th | 17th | 18th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
13th | – | – | 6th(b) | – | 3rd(b) | – | – | – | 2nd(b) | ||||
– | 1st(b) | DQ | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1st(b) | – | – | – | |||
13th | – | 1st(b) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
Season | 1000 meter | ||||||||||||||||||
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– | – | – | 7th(b) | – | – | ||||||||||||||
– | – | – | – | 1st(b) | 5th | ||||||||||||||
DQ | 8th | ||||||||||||||||||
5th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 9th | |||||||||||||||
– | – | 7th | |||||||||||||||||
12th | |||||||||||||||||||
– | – | ||||||||||||||||||
7th | 4th | – | |||||||||||||||||
– | |||||||||||||||||||
– | 5th | ||||||||||||||||||
– | |||||||||||||||||||
– | 7th | – | 1st(b) | – |
Season | 1500 meter | |||||||||||||
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– | – | 1st(b) | 13th | 19th | ||||||||||
– | – | – | 9th | 1st(b) | – | |||||||||
4th | 5th | 7th | ||||||||||||
9th | 8th | – | – | – | 4th | |||||||||
7th | – | – | 6th | 10th | ||||||||||
8th | 5th | 6th | ||||||||||||
4th | 5th | |||||||||||||
1st(b) | – | |||||||||||||
– | – | – | – | – | ||||||||||
– | 5th | – | ||||||||||||
– | ||||||||||||||
6th | 7th | 11th | – | |||||||||||
– |
– = Did not participate
(b) = Division B
DQ = Disqualified
NC = No classification
Championship | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
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8 | 5 | 2 | ||
1 | 3 | 4 | ||
European Sprint | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
European Single Distances | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
World Sprint | 9 | 2 | 3 | |
World Single Distance | 4 | 5 | 3 | |
Olympic Games | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
36 | 29 | 25 |