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© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

© 2019 – IOC / Peter Gregoire

Sarajevo 1984 and Calgary 1988, speed skates used by Tomas GUSTAFSON (SWE), triple olympic champion.

Physical description

Pair of speed skates with blade protector.

Created

Created: Viking

Used

Used: Tomas GUSTAFSON

Materials

leather, steel, textile

Colors

black, white, brown

Dimension

17 x 8.5 x 42.5 cm, 642 g

Literature

TEIGEN, Magne. "Speed Skating Olympic Record Progressions". In: Citius, Altius, Fortius (became Journal of Olympic History in 1997), Summer 1993, Vol. 1, N° 3, pp. 25-31.

Type of item

Sport equipment -> skates

Reference number

32555

Keywords

Olympic champion silver medallist Calgary 1988, Olympic Winter Games Sarajevo 1984, Olympic Winter Games Sweden Speed skating/500m[M]Speed skating/5000m[M]Speed skating/10000m[M]

Notes

Skates belonging to Tomas GUSTAFSON (SWE), three-time Olympic speed skating champion, Sarajevo 1984, and Calgary 1988 Having won a gold and a silver medal in Sarajevo in 1984, Tomas GUSTAFSON won the gold medal for the 5,000m in Calgary, 1988. In Sarajevo, 1984, he outstripped the soviet skater Igor MALKOV by only two-hundredths of a second.