Arne Dankers
Arne Dankers (born June 1, 1980) is a Canadian speed skater.
Dankers in 2007 | ||
Medal record | ||
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Men's speed skating | ||
Representing Canada | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2006 Turin | Team pursuit | |
World Single Distance Championships | ||
2007 Salt Lake City | Team pursuit |
Background
Dankers was born to Peter Dankers and Marja Verhoef, who are both Dutch. The family moved to Canada when he was two years old. Dankers graduated from the University of Calgary with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and later completed a PhD at the Delft University of Technology.[1]
Dankers was a member of the Canadian team that set the team pursuit world record of 3:39.69 in Calgary, Canada on November 12, 2005. The Canadian team, of which Dankers was a part, was not able to duplicate this performance at the 2006 Turin Olympics. The Italian team now holds the Olympic team pursuit record of 3:43.64.
2006 Winter Olympics
At the 2006 Olympics he participated in the following events:
- Speed Skating, Men's 1500 m
- Speed Skating, Men's 5000 m – 5th place
- Speed Skating, Men's 10000 m – 9th place
- Speed Skating, Men's Team Pursuit – Silver
Dankers placed 5th place in the 5000m men's speed skating final and his team won a silver medal in Men's team pursuit speed skating.
External links
- Photos of Arne Dankers at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-03-10)
- Arne Dankers at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
References
- Dankers, Arne Geert (2014). System Identification in Dynamic Networks (PDF) (PhD dissertation). Technische Universiteit Delft. ISBN 978-94-6186-352-2.