Denny Morrison

Not to be confused with Danny Morrison.

Denny Morrison

Denny Morrison skating in Heerenveen, dec. 2007
Personal information
Born	September 8, 1985 (1985-09-08) (age 26) Chetwynd, B.C.
Height	184cm (6' 0")
Weight	83 kg (183 lbs)
Sport
Country	Canada
Medal record Men's speed skating Competitor for  Canada Olympic Games Gold 2010 Vancouver Team pursuit Silver 2006 Turin Team pursuit World Championships Gold 2008 Nagano 1500 m Silver 2009 Vancouver 1000 m Silver 2007 Salt Lake City 1000 m Silver 2007 Salt Lake City Team pursuit Silver 2011 Inzell Team pursuit Bronze 2009 Vancouver 1500 m Bronze 2008 Nagano 1000 m Bronze 2007 Salt Lake City 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 held the world record time of 1:42.01 from 14 March 2008 to 6 March 2009. 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 gold 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.

He competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. On February 27, he won a gold medal in the team pursuit along with Lucas Makowsky and Mathieu Giroux.^[1]

Though Denny had many short term sponsors leading into his home Olympics, his long standing sponsors remain Nike, CE Franklin and Spectra Energy. He worked with B2Ten and was a CAN Fund recipient in 2009.^[2]

Personal records
Men's speed skating
Distance	Time	Date	Location	Notes
500 m	34.85	2007-12-28	Calgary
1000 m	1:07.11	2009-03-07	Salt Lake City
1500 m	1:42.01	2008-03-14	Calgary
5000 m	6:24.13	2006-01-02	Calgary
10000 m	13:41.65	2007-12-31	Calgary

References

1. ^ Celia, Danny (2010-02-27). "Canada wins team pursuit gold". CTV Olympics. http://www.ctvolympics.ca/speed-skating/news/newsid=53783.html. Retrieved 2010-02-27. 
2. ^ http://www.canadianathletesnow.ca/recipients/2008-2009-athlete-recipients.html

External links

• "The ball has just started rolling..." – January 2009
• Denny Morrison crowns season with world title and world record, March 2008
• Video of Denny Morrison's world record race in the 1500m; 1:42.01, 14 March 2008
• Denny Morrison at SkateResults.com
• Photos of Denny Morrison

Persondata
Name	Morrison, Denny
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1985-09-08
Place of birth	Chetwynd, B.C.
Date of death
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