The clap skate (also called clapper skates, clapskates, slap skates, slapskates, from Dutch klapschaats) is a type of ice skate used in speed skating. Unlike...
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England Thomas Clap or Thomas Clapp (1703–1767), president of Yale College Clap skate, a type of ice skate used in speed skating Clap (film), a 2022 Indian...
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skating, shall have ice surface for the other sport as well. There are two primary types of skates, traditional ice skates and clap skates. The clap skates...
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falls are more common in mass-start races. Suits and indoor skating, as well as the clap skate, has helped to lower long track world records considerably;...
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speed skating. A clap skate (or clapper skate) is a type of skate where the shoe is connected to the blade using a hinge. Short track racing skates have...
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biarticular muscles. He focused on speed skating in particular, and played a significant part in the invention of the clap skate. He died of cancer in 1998. Jos...
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within reach. The clap skate (also called clapskates, slap skates, slapskates) is a type of ice skate used in speed skating. Clap skates were developed at...
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with 1:17.65. The 1990s saw a fourth technological breakthrough, the clap skate, though that only came into general use at the end of the decade. But...
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2013. Retrieved 21 November 2021. Nevius, C.W. (5 February 1998). ""Clap" Skate draws boos from traditionalists". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved...
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snowboard, snowskate Sleds Ice skates and clap skates Mud horses and mud sledges Snowboarding Ice skating Sledding Skiing Clap skating Stilts Powerbocking Pogo...
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Tonny de Jong (category Dutch female speed skaters)
became European Allround Champion. De Jong was the first skater who mastered the clap skate. At the 2002 Winter Olympics she had little success, but she...
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Håvard Bøkko (category Norwegian male speed skaters)
Kramer, Gianni Romme and Eric Heiden from the early 1980s before the clap skate. He is the older brother of Hege Bøkko. In 2006, Bøkko was the Junior...
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Johann Olav Koss (category World record setters in speed skating)
races in new world records, two of which would remain unbeaten until the clap skate era. For his performance, he was named Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman...
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Jaap Havekotte (category Dutch male speed skaters)
company to produce the clap skate on a large scale. Due to his significant influence on speed skating in the Netherlands, speed skaters from later generations...
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Gerard van Velde (category Dutch male speed skaters)
Velde to be his training partner, and, during training, he mastered the clap skate techniques. He decided to try out for the 2002 Winter Olympics, in spite...
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climate-controlled ovals in 1986, and the clap skate in 1996. Also, over time, more high altitude skating rinks have been built; the lower air pressure...
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Jan van Ingen Schenau (1944–1998), Dutch biomechanist, inventor of the clap skate Henry Van Ingen (1833–1898) or Hendrik van Ingen, Dutch painter active...
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to adapt the concept of the clap skate, which revolutionized long-track speed skating in the mid-1990s, for the skating technique in cross-country skiing...
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significance of the American Push has been compared to the Fosbury Flop and the Clap Skate. Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records...
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Diederik Hol (category Skating people)
clapskate possible. He graduated having worked on the Rotrax skate, a complex clap skate conceived as a multiple-hinge frame aimed at controlling deformation...
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Marieke Wijsman (category Dutch female speed skaters)
speed skater who represented her country in two Winter Olympics, and who was the first female speed skater to compete internationally on clap skates. Wijsman...
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their song "Clap That", with an accompanying music video, which was released on the Channel 5 YouTube channel on January 4, 2022. "Clap That" - Rowboat...
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1998 Winter Olympics (section Skating)
clap skates. On the men's side, the world record holder in the men's 500m was the Japanese skater Hiroyasu Shimizu. Shimizu was the smallest skater at...
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Jan Maarten Heideman (category Dutch male speed skaters)
who skated the Elfstedentocht on clap skates. He was also the first skater to show up with the 3D-skate, the carve-skate, the shark suit, the bird suit...
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Zeke Falcone. Zeke was born in Japan, as revealed in the episode "Head of Skate". He was born on April 7 as revealed in "Not My Sister's Keeper" and lives...
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"Dead Sound" performed by The Raveonettes, "Blue Turning Grey" performed by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, "Your Arms Around Me" performed by Jens Lekman,...
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existing world and Olympic records were as follows: Due to the use of clap skates in comparison to the previous Olympics the Olympic record got broken...
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The Skating Rink (La Pista de Hielo in Spanish) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. A translation from the Spanish by Chris Andrews was published...
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Peter Pan (redirect from If you believe in fairies, clap your hands)
character of Peter Pan on his older brother, David, who died in an ice-skating accident the day before his 14th birthday. His mother and brother thought...
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