Eric Flaim
He soon starting playing youth ice hockey in his hometown at the Hobomock Arena, later joining travel teams always with the encouragement and support of his father Enrico.It would not be the new world record, though, because two pairs later, East German skater André Hoffmann set an even faster time, by just .06 of a second.A highlight for Flaim's career came two weeks later when, in Alma-Ata – then a part of the Soviet Union – he became World Allround Champion at the high-altitude Medeu stadium.After that season he underwent knee surgery in early 1990 and began extensive therapy to get back into elite condition.In 1992, he seemed to be on his way to a comeback when he finished first in Davos, Switzerland, one of the eight 1,000 m races to determine the 1,000 m World Cup, two weeks prior to the start of the Olympics.
Pembroke, MassachusettsUnited StatesSpeed skatingShort track speed skatingOlympic Games1988 Calgary1500 mWorld Allround ChampionshipsAllroundWorld Sprint ChampionshipsSprint1994 Lillehammer5000 m relayWorld Championships1995 GjøvikWorld Team Championships1995 Zoetermeerspeed skaterspeed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympicsshort track speed skating at the 1994 Winter OlympicsEric Heidenlong track speed skatingHeerenveen1988 Winter OlympicsCalgaryIgor ZhelezovskiEast GermanAndré HoffmannAlma-AtaWorld Allround ChampionMichael HadschieffWorld Cup1992 Winter OlympicsAlbertville1994 Winter OlympicsChrista Luding-Rothenburger1998 Winter OlympicsNaganoBig combinationAdelskalenderWayback MachineInternational Skating UnionOlympics.comBruce BaumgartnerFlagbearerNagano 1998Cliff MeidlPeder ØstlundJaap EdenOscar MathisenIvar BallangrudMichael StaksrudÅke SeyffarthNikolay MamonovHjalmar AndersenBoris ShilkovJuhani JärvinenKnut JohannesenJonny NilssonPer Ivar MoeEduard MatusevichArd SchenkKees VerkerkMagne ThomassenHans van HeldenVladimir LobanovJan Egil StorholtSergey MarchukViktor ShasherinAndrey BobrovNikolay GulyayevJohann Olav KossFalko ZandstraRintje RitsmaGianni RommeJochem UytdehaageChad HedrickSven KramerShani DavisPatrick RoestWorld champions in men's allround speed skatingJack McCullochEdvard EngelsaasFranz Frederik WathénSigurd MathisenCoen de KoningNikolay StrunnikovHarald StrømClas ThunbergRoald LarsenBernt EvensenHans EngnestangenBirger WaseniusLassi ParkkinenOdd LundbergKornél PajorOleg GoncharenkoSigvard EricssonBoris SteninHenk van der GriftViktor KosichkinFred Anton MaierDag FornæssGöran ClaesonSten StensenHarm KuipersPiet KleineHilbert van der DuimAmund SjøbrendRolf Falk-LarssenOleg BozhevHein VergeerLeo VisserRoberto SighelIds PostmaIvan SkobrevKoen VerweijNils van der PoelJordan Stolz