Denny Morrison

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Not to be confused with Danny Morrison.
Denny Morrison
Denny Morrison

Denny Morrison skating in Heerenveen, dec. 2007
Country Flag of Canada Canada
Date of birth September 8, 1985 (1985-09-08) (age 22)
Place of birth Chetwynd, B.C.
Website FanSite
Titles
Medal record
Men's speed skating
Olympic Games
Silver 2006 Turin Team pursuit
World Championships
Silver 2007 Salt Lake City 1000 m
Bronze 2007 Salt Lake City 1500 m
Silver 2007 Salt Lake City Team pursuit
Bronze 2008 Nagano 1000 m
Gold 2008 Nagano 1500 m

Denny Morrison (born September 8, 1985 in Chetwynd, British Columbia) is a Canadian speedskater from Fort St. John, British Columbia. His best distance, so far in his career, is the 1500-m, where he holds the world record time of 1:42.01 (as of March 2008). He won 4th places in the Junior World Allround Championships in 2004 and 2005, and a 5th place in his first senior World Allround in 2006. He holds the current 9th place on the allround best-ever Adelskalender (as of January 2008), and is the best Canadian skater on this list.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Morrison won a silver medal as part of the Canadian men's speed skating pursuit team. Individually, Morrison won a silver in the 1500-m and a bronze in the 1000-m at a World Cup event in Turin in 2005–06.

In 2007, Morrison won gold in the 1,000 metre event in Calgary in the World Cup finals with a time of 1:07:24. He set a Canadian record, bettering his idol, Jeremy Wotherspoon. In that same weekend, Morrison also won a bronze in the 1,500 metre event.

Morrison also participated in the 2007 World Single Distance Championships, and achieved good results, winning three medals, bronze in the 1500m and silver in the 1000m, losing both times to Shani Davis. In the team pursuit event he, along with Arne Dankers and Justin Warsylewicz, set an early best time, which broke the old team pursuit world record (previously held by Morrison, Dankers and Steven Elm) but the Dutch team of Sven Kramer, Erben Wennemars and Carl Verheijen would go on to beat the time set by Canada by five-tenths of a second, relegating Canada to 2nd place.

In 2008 Morrison topped his result from the year before at the World Single Distance Championships in Nagano, Japan. He took the bronze medal in the 1.000 meters, but won the 1.500m and took home the golden medal.

A week later, at the ING Finale at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, he set a new World record in the 1.500 meters in a time of 1.42,01 Beating the old World record held by both Shani Davis and Erben Wennemars


Personal records
Men's speed skating
Distance Time Date Location Notes
500 m 34.85 2007-12-28 Calgary
1000 m 1:07.24 2007-03-02 Calgary
1500 m 1:42.01 2008-03-14 Calgary also the world record
5000 m 6:24.13 2006-01-02 Calgary
10000 m 13:41.65 2007-12-31 Calgary

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