Anne Henning

What grabs me about Anne Henning is the audacity of her timeline. Winning silver at the ISU Sprint Championships at just fifteen is the kind of teenage precocity that usually burns out, yet she made the smart pivot from short track to long track that so many sprinters chase. I read her as a pure speed athlete, all explosive commitment over a few electric seconds, and there is something deeply admirable about that single-minded intensity. As a woman carving out space in 1970s American speed skating, she struck me as a genuine pioneer whose nerve at such a young age still impresses.

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Name (English)

Anne Henning

Name (Japanese)

アン・ヘニング

Reading

あん・へにんぐ

Born

September 6, 1955 (age 71)

Origin

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Height

170 cm

Occupation

speed skater

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

High school

Glenbrook North High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Henning
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%8B%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q445534

Tags

• North Carolina
• speed skater

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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