Frode Rønning Athlete
Frode Rønning (born 7 July 1959 in Trondheim) is a former speed skater and coach from Norway. During many speed skating seasons, Rønning was the world's best sprinter. Rønning participated in the 13 sprint world championships between 1977 and 1989, he became champion in 1981, and won silver in 1978 and bronze in 1979 and 1982. He has participated in three olympics; in 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid he won a bronze medal on the 1000 m and came fourth on the 500 m at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo he came 7th in the 500 m, and at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he came 10th in the 500 m. Frode Rønning has nine Norwegian sprint championships in total 3 on the 500 m and 2 on the 1000 m. As a junior he sat 6 junior world records on 500 m, 1000 m and overall sprint. He first skated for Leinstrand IL and later for Oslo Idrettslag and ASK (Arbeidernes Skøyteklubb – later called Aktiv Skøyteklubb). Personal records: 37.31 - 1:15.54 - 1:59.82 vte World Champions in Men's Sprint Speed Skating 1970: Valery Muratov 1971: Erhard Keller 1972: Leo Linkovesi 1973: Valery Muratov 1974: Per Bjørang 1975: Aleksandr Safronov 1976: Johan Granath 1977: Eric Heiden 1978: Eric Heiden 1979: Eric Heiden 1980: Eric Heiden 1981: Frode Rønning 1982: Sergey Khlebnikov 1983: Akira Kuroiwa 1984: Gaétan Boucher 1985: Igor Zhelezovski 1986: Igor Zhelezovski 1987: Akira Kuroiwa 1988: Dan Jansen 1989: Igor Zhelezovski 1990: Bae Ki-Tae 1991: Igor Zhelezovski 1992: Igor Zhelezovski 1993: Igor Zhelezovski 1994: Dan Jansen 1995: Kim Yoon-man 1996: Sergey Klevchenya 1997: Sergey Klevchenya 1998: Jan Bos 1999: Jeremy Wotherspoon 2000: Jeremy Wotherspoon 2001: Mike Ireland 2002: Jeremy Wotherspoon 2003: Jeremy Wotherspoon 2004: Erben Wennemars 2005: Erben Wennemars 2006: Joey Cheek 2007: Lee Kyou-Hyuk 2008: Lee Kyou-Hyuk 2009: Shani Davis 2010: Lee Kyou-Hyuk 2011: Lee Kyou-Hyuk 2012: Stefan Groothuis
