Chad Hedrick

Chad Hedrick fascinates me as a true disruptor. Before the Olympic ice, he dominated inline speed skating with a self-invented technique, the double push, and racked up an almost absurd 93 national and 50 world titles, even getting a wheel line named after him. Then he transferred all of that to ice and reached the Winter Games, which is an extraordinary feat of adaptation between two different sports. The 2004 Oscar Mathisen Award confirms the respect of his peers. I am drawn to athletes who innovate rather than imitate, and Hedrick rewrote the technique book before climbing an entirely new mountain.

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Name (English)

Chad Hedrick

Name (Japanese)

チャド・ヘドリック

Reading

ちゃど・へどりっく

Born

April 17, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Height

178 cm

Occupation

speed skater

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Oscar Mathisen Award

• Official sitehttps://www.chadhedrick.com
• Xhttps://x.com/chadhedrick
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20Hedrick
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434352

Tags

• Texas
• speed skater

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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