- long track 3,000 metre race on February 14, 2010
- long track 5,000 metre race on February 24, 2010
What's the difference between long and short track?
Olympic Speed Skater Clara Hughes: Vancouver 2010 Results
- long track 3,000 metre race: 5th place
- long track 5,000 metre race: bronze medal
Birth date
September 27, 1972
Birthplace
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Residence
Glenn Sutton, Quebec
Did You Know?
The second woman and fourth person -- and first Canadian -- to ever win medals in both winter and summer Olympics, Clara first made a name for herself by netting two Bronze medals at the Atlanta Summer Olympics in cycling: one was earned in road racing, the other in time trials. But decades earlier, few would have guessed Clara would make history. The five-time Olympic medalist admits to a chequered youth, describing herself as an "undisciplined, pseudo-amoral girl" who ran away from home as she pleased, buying beer for her friends at age 13 and smoking a pack of cigarettes a day by the time she was 16. She was that same age when she decided to change her life, a decision set in motion by springtime, after watching speed skating on the tube, during the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Career Highlights
- 2006 Turin Olympics: gold medal, long track, 5,000 metres
- 2006 Turin Olympics: silver medal, long track, team pursuit race
- 2005 World Cup Heereveen, Holland: long track, gold medal, 5,000 metres
- 2005 World Cup Berlin: gold medal, long track, 3,000 metres
- 2004 World Single Distance Championships: gold medal, long track, 5,000 metres
- 2004 Speed Skating Canada Female Skater of the Year, long track
- 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics: bronze medal, long track, 5,000 metres
- 2002 World Cup Erfurt, Germany: gold medal, long track, 3,000 metres
- 2002 Commonwealth Games: gold medal, cycling, time trial
- 2002 Commonwealth Games: silver medal, cycling, team time trial
- 2002 Commonwealth Games: gold medal, cycling, points race
- 1996 Atlanta Olympics: bronze medal, cycling, road race
- 1996 Atlanta Olympics: bronze medal, cycling, time trial
View complete list of career highlights.
Sources
Clara Hughes Website
Olympic.ca
Speed Skating Canada
CBC
Toronto Star
CTV
