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Peder Kongshaug

Personal information

Nationality

Norwegian

Born

13 August 2001 (age 23)
Wimbledon, England

Height

1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

86 kg (190 lb)

Sport

Country

Norway

Sport

Speed skating

Club

Stavanger Sandnes Skøyteklubb

Medal record

Men's speed skating

Representing Norway
Olympic Games
	2022 Beijing	Team pursuit
World Single Distance Championships
	2024 Calgary	Team pursuit
	2023 Heerenveen	Team pursuit
	2024 Calgary	1500 m
European Championships
	2024 Heerenveen	1500 m
	2024 Heerenveen	Team pursuit

Peder Kongshaug (born 13 August 2001) is a Norwegian speed skater. He is a 2022 Olympic champion in team pursuit.

Biography

Kongshaug is the son of Peer Albert Kongshaug, who represented Norway in sailing and placed eighth at the 1988 Flying Dutchman World Championship in Medemblik, Netherlands.

At the 2020 World Junior Speed Skating Championships in February 2020, Kongshaug won the gold medal in the 1000m event.^[1] He took part in the 2021 European Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen where he sixth place in the 500m and also finished in the 10th and 19th place in the 1000m and 5000m events respectively. At the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in 2021, he finished 14th in the 1000m, 18th in the 5000m and was not selected for the team pursuit.

At the 2022 European Speed Skating Championships, Kongshaug finished 7th place in the 1500m and 17th place in the mass-start. Having qualified for the 2022 Winter Olympics, which took place in February 2022, where in the 1500m event, he finished 1.18 s behind the Dutch champion Kjeld Nuis, having competed in the tenth race against the silver medalist Thomas Krol. With Kongshaug's teammates Hallgeir Engebråten and Sverre Lunde Pedersen, the Norwegian relay obtained the best qualifying time then won in the semi-final against the Dutch and then against the Russians in the final, the latter having nevertheless established a new Olympic record in their duel against the Americans.^[2]

Personal records

Event	Result	Date	Location
Personal records^[3]
Speed skating
500 metres	35.86	2 December 2022	Calgary
1000 metres	1:10.32	13 February 2021	Heerenveen
1500 metres	1:42.66	18 February 2024	Calgary
3000 metres	3:44.22	14 August 2021	Hamar
5000 metres	6:13.51	19 November 2022	Heerenveen
10000 metres	13:12.15	17 December 2022	Calgary

He is currently in 21st position in the adelskalender with 147.111 points.^[4]

References

^ "ISU WORLD JUNIOR SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2020" (PDF). media.isuresults.eu.
^ "la Norvège sacrée championne olympique de poursuite par équipes hommes à Beijing 2022". olympics.com.
^ "Peder Kongshaug". Speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
^ "Adelskalendern". evertstenlund.se. Retrieved 14 January 2023.

External links

Peder Kongshaug at the Norway Football Association (in Norwegian)
Peder Kongshaug in SpeedSkatingBase.eu (archived)
Peder Kongshaug at SpeedSkatingNews.info
Peder Kongshaug at SpeedSkatingStats.com
Peder Kongshaug at Olympics.com
Peder Kongshaug at the International Skating Union
Peder Kongshaug at Team Norway (in Norwegian)

v t e Olympic champions in men's team pursuit speed skating
2006: Matteo Anesi, Stefano Donagrandi, Enrico Fabris, Ippolito Sanfratello (ITA) 2010: Mathieu Giroux, Lucas Makowsky, Denny Morrison (CAN) 2014: Jan Blokhuijsen, Sven Kramer, Koen Verweij (NED) 2018: Håvard Bøkko, Sindre Henriksen, Simen Spieler Nilsen, Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) 2022: Hallgeir Engebråten, Peder Kongshaug, Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR)

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