Sven Kramer

Sven Kramer

Sven Kramer (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌsfɛn ˈkraːmər]; born 23 April 1986) is a retired Dutch long track speed skater who has won an all time record nine World Allround Championships as well as a record ten European Allround Championships. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meters at the Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics, and won a record 21 gold medals at the World Single Distance Championships; eight in the 5000 meters, five in the 10,000 meters, and eight in the team pursuit. Kramer used to be the world record holder in the team pursuit (alongside Douwe de Vries and Marcel Bosker) and broke the world records in the 5000 meter and 10,000 meter events three times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sven Kramer has received more than 428,164 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Sven Kramer is the 123rd most popular skater (up from 127th in 2019), the 829th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 864th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Skater.