Jan Bos

Jan Bos

Bos in 2007
Personal information
Born	29 March 1975[1] Harderwijk, Netherlands
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Speed skating
Medal record Speed skating Representing the  Netherlands Olympic Games 1998 Nagano 1000 m 2002 Salt Lake City 1000 m World Championships 1997 Warsaw 1000 m 1998 Berlin Sprint 1999 Calgary Sprint 1999 Heerenveen 1000 m 2000 Nagano 1000 m 2000 Nagano 1500 m 2005 Inzell 1000 m 2006 Heerenveen Sprint

Jan Bos (born 29 March 1975) is a Dutch speedskater and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics.

Speed skater

In 1998 Bos both became the world champion sprint and won the silver medal that year in the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano. He won the silver medal on that same distance in Salt Lake City.

He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in the team sprint track cycling event, together with his brother Theo Bos, who won the silver at the individual sprint, and Teun Mulder. The Dutch finished sixth after being knocked out by Japan.

Bos ended his career as a competitive speed skater in 2011.

Cyclist

In 2012 Bos (in cooperation with the Human Power Team from Delft) tried to become the fastest cyclist in the world during the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada. At the time, the International Human Powered Vehicle Association record was 133 km/h, held by the Canadian Sam Whittingham.^[2] Bos used a recumbent bicycle specially developed for the occasion by students of the Delft University of Technology and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, but only managed a maximum speed of 126.5 km/h. In September 2013, his teammate Sebastiaan Bowier did manage to break the record, reaching a speed of 133.78 kilometres per hour (83.13 mph)^[3]

Records

Personal records

Personal records
Men's speed skating
Event	Result	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	34.72	12 February 2002	Salt Lake City
1000 m	1:07.20	22 March 2009	Calgary
1500 m	1:44.87	4 March 2007	Calgary
3000 m	3:50.53	16 March 2001	Calgary
5000 m	6:46.59	17 March 2001	Calgary
10000 m	15:23.18	11 March 1993	Heerenveen

Source: www.sskating.com^[4] & SpeedskatingResults.com^[5]

World records

Event	Time	Date	Venue
1000 m	1.10,63	22 November 1997	Calgary
1000 m	1.08,55	21 February 1999	Calgary

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com^[6]

Tournament summary

Year	Dutch Distance	Dutch Sprint	World Sprint	World Distance	Olympics	World Cup
1994	9th 500 m   6th 1000 m 10th 1500 m
1995	5th 500 m   4th 1000 m 10th 1500 m	5th
1996	500 m 1000 m		24th			39th 1000 m
1997			13th	8th 500 m 1000 m		20th 500 m   4th 1000 m
1998	500 m 1000 m 5th 1500 m			5th 500 m 4th 1000 m	12th 500 m 1000 m   4th 1500 m	5th 500 m 1000 m 17th 1500 m
1999	500 m 1000 m 1500 m			fall 500 m 1000 m		4th 500 m 1000 m   6th 1500 m
2000	500 m 1000 m		4th	5th 500 m 1000 m 1500 m		5th 500 m 1000 m   6th 1500 m
2001	500 m 1000 m 10th 1500 m	Ill	4th	21st 500 m 10th 1000 m		8th 500 m 10th 1000 m 23rd 1500 m
2002	500 m 1000 m 5th 1500 m		DQ		9th 500 m 1000 m 7th 1500 m	7th 500 m 1000 m 26th 1500 m
2003	500 m 1000 m		7th	5th 500 m 15th 1000 m		5th 500 m 1000 m
2004	500 m   7th 1000 m	6th		14th 500 m   5th 1000 m		28th 100 m 16th 500 m   9th 1000 m
2005	4th 500 m   5th 1000 m 10th 1500 m		6th	1000 m		23rd 500 m   5th 1000 m
2006	500 m 1000 m 1500 m				11th 500 m   5th 1000 m 20th 1500 m	43rd 500 m 12th 1000 m   7th 1500 m
2007	500 m 1000 m 1500 m		12th	16th 500 m		36th 100 m 19th 500 m   4th 1000 m   6th 1500 m
2008	5th 500 m 1000 m   9th 1500 m		39th	5th 1000 m		25th 100 m 24th 500 m   1000 m
2009	8th 500 m 6th 1000 m	4th		5th 1000 m		12th 1000 m
2010	8th 500 m 7th 1000 m				29th 500 m 12th 1000 m	51st 500 m 15th 1000 m
2011	10th 500 m   1000 m		12th

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com^[5]

See also

• List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

External links

1. "Jan Bos". sports-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
2. "Home IHPVA". International Human Powered Vehicle Association. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
3. "Sebastiaan Bowier sets new human-powered vehicle record in Nevada".
4. "Jan Bos". Jakub Majerski's. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
5. "Jan Bos". SpeedskatingResults.com. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
6. "Jan Bos". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 29 August 2012.

• Photos of Jan Bos
• Jan Bos at SpeedSkatingStats.com