Arne Dankers

Arne Dankers

Dankers in 2007
Medal record
Men's speed skating
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
	2006 Turin	Team pursuit
World Single Distance Championships
	2007 Salt Lake City	Team pursuit

Arne Dankers (born June 1, 1980) is a Canadian speed skater.

Background

Dankers was born to Peter Dankers and Marja Verhoef, who are both Dutch. The family moved to Canada when he was two years old.[1]

Dankers was a member of the Canadian team that set the team pursuit world record of 3:39.69 in Calgary, Canada on November 12, 2005. The Canadian team, of which Dankers was a part, was not able to duplicate this performance at the 2006 Turin Olympics. The Italian team now holds the Olympic team pursuit record of 3:43.64.[2]

After retiring from speed skating following the 2008-09 season,[3] Dankers graduated from the University of Calgary with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and later completed a PhD at the Delft University of Technology.[1] He subsequently returned to the University of Calgary in a postdoctoral position, and began publishing research in the fields of dynamic network analysis and systems engineering.[4]

2006 Winter Olympics

At the 2006 Olympics he participated in the following events:

• Speed Skating, Men's 1500 m
• Speed Skating, Men's 5000 m – 5th place
• Speed Skating, Men's 10000 m – 9th place
• Speed Skating, Men's Team Pursuit – Silver

Dankers placed 5th place in the 5000m men's speed skating final and his team won a silver medal in Men's team pursuit speed skating.

External links

• Photos of Arne Dankers at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-03-10)
• Arne Dankers at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

References

1. Dankers, Arne Geert (2014). System Identification in Dynamic Networks (PDF) (PhD dissertation). Technische Universiteit Delft. ISBN 978-94-6186-352-2.
2. "Speedskating". Times of Malta. 2006-02-17. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
3. "Dankers calls it quits". The Globe and Mail. 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
4. "Arne G. Dankers". IEEE. Retrieved 2024-03-05.