Fred Anton Maier

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Olympic medal record
Men’s speed skating
Gold	1968 Grenoble	5,000 m
Silver	1964 Innsbruck	10,000 m
Silver	1968 Winter Olympics	10,000 m
Bronze	1964 Winter Olympics	5,000 m

Fred Anton Maier (born 15 December 1938, Nøtterøy) is a former Norwegian speed skater. He was among the dominating skaters throughout the 1960s.

Fred Anton Maier won four Olympic medals: silver on the 10,000 m and bronze on the 5,000 m at the 1964 Olympics, and gold on the 5,000 m and silver on the 10,000 m at the 1968 Olympics. In 1968, he also became European and World Allround Champion. In total, Maier set eleven world records. For a brief week in 1968 he held four world records simultaneously, the 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 and the allround samalogue record.

In addition, Maier excelled in cycling, winning two National Championships bronze medals. In 1967, he was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris and in 1968 the Oscar Mathisen Award.

[edit] World records

Over the course of his career, Maier skated eleven world records:

• 5000-m, 7.28,1 (4 March 1965, Notodden; beaten by Kees Verkerk, 26 February 1967)
• 10,000-m, 15.32,2 (6 February 1966, Bislett; beaten by Maier)
• allround, 178.253 (6 February 1966, Bislett; beaten by Kees Verkerk, 12 February 1967)
• 10,000-m, 15.31,8 (28 February 1967, Inzell; beaten by Maier)
• 5000-m, 7.26,2 (7 January 1968, Deventer; beaten by Maier)
• 10,000-m, 15.29,5 (21 January 1968, Horten; beaten by Maier)
• 10,000-m, 15.20,3 (28 January 1968, Bislett; beaten by Per Willy Guttormsen, 10 March 1968)
• 5,000-m, 7.22,4 (15 February 1968, Grenoble; beaten by Maier)
• allround, 176.340 (25 February 1968, Göteborg; beaten by Kees Verkerk, 10 March 1968)
• 3000-m, 4.17,5 (7 March 1968, Inzell; beaten by Dag Fornæss, 28 January 1969)
• 5000-m, 7.16,7 (9 March 1968, Inzell; beaten by Kees Verkerk, 1 March 1969)

[edit] Biography

• Maier forteller til Knut Bjørnsen (Aschehoug, Oslo, 1968) (Norwegian)

[edit] External link

• Fred Anton Maier at SkateResults.com

Olympic champions in men's 5000 m speed skating

1924: Clas Thunberg | 1928: Ivar Ballangrud | 1932: Irving Jaffee | 1936: Ivar Ballangrud | 1948: Reidar Liaklev | 1952: Hjalmar Andersen | 1956: Boris Shilkov | 1960: Viktor Kosichkin  | 1964: Knut Johannesen | 1968: Fred Anton Maier | 1972: Ard Schenk | 1976: Sten Stensen | 1980: Eric Heiden | 1984: Tomas Gustafson | 1988: Tomas Gustafson | 1992: Geir Karlstad | 1994: Johann Olav Koss | 1998: Gianni Romme | 2002: Jochem Uytdehaage | 2006: Chad Hedrick

Preceded by Ole Ellefsæter	Egebergs Ærespris 1967	Succeeded by Frithjof Prydz
Preceded by Kees Verkerk	Oscar Mathisen Award 1968	Succeeded by Dag Fornæss