KC Boutiette

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Men's speed skating
Medal record
KC Boutiette in 2006
World Allrounds
Silver	1997	1500 m
Silver	1998	500 m
U.S. Long Track Championships
Gold	2003	5000 m
Silver	2003	1500 m
Bronze	2004	1500 m
Silver	2004	5000 m
U.S. Allrounds
Gold	1994	Overall
Silver	1995	Overall
Gold	1996	Overall
Gold	1997	Overall
Silver	2000	Overall
Silver	2002	Overall
U.S. Sprints
Silver	1999	Overall
Olympic Trials
Gold	1994	5000 m
Gold	1994	10000 m
Silver	1998	1000 m
Silver	1998	10000 m
Silver	2002	10000 m

KC Boutiette (born April 11, 1970) is an American speed skater from Tacoma, Washington and four-time Olympian.

He was first of the wave of inline speed skaters who made the transition from inline to ice in order to have a shot at going to the Olympics.

Among American speed skaters, Boutiette's story is half legendary. In 1993, he showed up at the Pettit National Ice Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, looking to gain a berth on the team that would be sent to the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Although he had been a champion inline speed skater for years, Boutiette at that time had no ice speed skating experience at all. Nevertheless, within a few months he made the team.

Although Boutiette has never won an Olympic medal, he demonstrated to other American inline speed skaters that the opportunity was there if they would give it a shot. Three of those who did, Derek Parra, Jennifer Rodriguez (now Boutiette's wife), and Joey Cheek, won five medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Another former inline skater, Chad Hedrick won three medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy after switching to ice skating in 2003. Boutiette skated in the team pursuit after Shani Davis declined to participate in the event, but he fell behind the rest of the team in the race and the United States finished sixth. He also skated in the 500 metre race at the 2006 Games, finishing in 19th place. In the Netherlands he participated as a marathon speed skater for several years hoping for a strong winter to ride the Elfstedentocht at least once. In this period he won the Six Days of the Greenery twice in 2003 and 2004. He wore the brussels sprout suit for ten days inbetween 2003 and 2005, the second in ranking after Cédric Michaud.^[1] In total he won 21 speed skating marathons on artificial tracks.^[2] He also was the leader in the Essent Cup for two days, wearing the orange suit.^[3]

Personal records
Men's speed skating
Distance	Time	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	36.19	2001-10-20	Salt Lake City, Utah
1000 m	1:10.80	1998-03-29	Calgary
1500 m	1:46.78	2002-12-28	Salt Lake City, Utah
3000 m	3:48.27	2001-08-10	Calgary
5000 m	6:22.97	2002-02-09	Salt Lake City, Utah