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Heiden

American  
[hahyd-n] / ˈhaɪd n /

noun

  1. Eric, born 1958, U.S. speed skater.


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Klaebo breaks the previous record of five golds from a single Games, held by American speed skater Eric Heiden since the Lake Placid Olympics of 1980.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

The last skater to achieve the double was American Eric Heiden who won all five titles at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Corby has molded Stolz with the sort of grueling, high-volume strength and endurance efforts that sculpted skating legends like the GOAT, Eric Heiden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

"People really need an early warning in order to determine what to do," says Paul Heiden, chief executive of Optics11, a Dutch firm that also makes fibre optic acoustic sensing systems.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2025

Contains Breitkopf and Haertel's vocal scores of— Cantata 61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

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