Bart Swings

Bart Swings
Personal information
Nationality Belgian
Born (1991-02-12) 12 February 1991
Herent, Belgium
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight 67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Country Belgium
Sport Speed skating
Turned pro 2010

Bart Swings (born 12 February 1991 in Herent) is a Belgian long track speed skater and multiple European[2] and world champion inline speed skater.[3] He is the world record holder on 10000m inline speed skating with 14:41.425.

In his first world championship speed skating, the 2011 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Inzell, Germany, he finished 17th in the 5000 m.[4]

At the 2012 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Moscow, he finished 9th overall, with a personal record at the 500m and a national record at the 1500m.[5]

At the 2013 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, he finished 3rd overall and took the Bronze medal back home to Belgium.

Swings is currently studying for an engineer's degree at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.[6]

His brother Maarten Swings and Ferre Spruyt also make the combination of inline speed skating and speed skating, both participating in the inlineskating world championships and qualifying for the ISU Speed Skating World Cup.

Personal records

Personal records
Men's speed skating
Event Result Date Location Notes
500 m 36.46 7 November 2015 Olympic Oval, Calgary Current Belgian record[7]
1000 m 1.10.00 10 November 2013 Olympic Oval, Calgary Current Belgian record[8]
1500 m 1:42.48 15 November 2015 Olympic Oval, Calgary Current Belgian record[9]
3000 m 3:39.34 2 November 2013 Olympic Oval, Calgary Current Belgian record[10]
5000 m 6:13.37 17 November 2013 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City Current Belgian record[11]
10000 m 12:57.31 21 November 2015 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City Current Belgian record
Team pursuit 3:45.64 16 November 2013 Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City Current Belgian record (with Ferre Spruyt and Maarten Swings)[12]

As of 23 November 2015, his highest ranking on the all-time Adelskalender is 11th.[13]

Notes

  1. "Interview with Bart Swings, leader of Powerslide Matter World Team". OLS roller-skating magazine. online-skating.com. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  2. van Stiphout, Marc (8 August 2011). "13 maal goud voor België op EK skeeleren". Het Nieuwsblad. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
  3. "Tweede wereldtitel voor Bart Swings". Het Nieuwsblad. 29 October 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  4. Jacobs, Hans (12 March 2011). "Bart Swings maakt knap WK-debuut op ijs". Het Nieuwsblad. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
  5. "Bart Swings negende op WK allround, vijfde keer goud voor Kramer". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). Belga. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  6. Vandeweghe, Hans (11 March 2011). "* Sport Gevonden: Belg met schaatstalent". De Standaard. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
  7. "Bart Swings piekt al vroeg met Belgisch record". Sporza.be. 8 November 2015.
  8. "Swings skates Belgian 1.000m record". sporza.be. 10 November 2013.
  9. Van Aken, Tom (15 November 2015). "Zilver voor Swings in nieuw BR". Sport.be.
  10. "Bart Swings komt dicht bij wereldrecord op 3 km". De Standaard (in Dutch). 3 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  11. "Bart Swings verbetert Belgische chrono op 5.000 meter". Knack. 18 November 2013.
  12. "België met nieuwe recordtijd elfde in ploegenachtervolging". Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). Belga. 17 November 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  13. Stenlund, Evert. "Adel". Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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