Gerard van Velde
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Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde is a Dutch retired speed skater who specialised in sprinting. He won an Olympic gold medal in 2002.
Gerard van Velde portrait
Jan Bos
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Jan Bos is a Dutch former speedskater and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Gerard van Velde
…the clap skate techniques. He decided to try out for the 2002 Winter Olympics, in spite of the arrival of a new generation of Dutch sprinters such as Jan Bos, Erben Wennemars and Jakko Jan Leeuwangh. Van Velde became the fourth sprinter to qualify for the games. In Salt Lake City, he started before all the…
Bos in 2007