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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

What Heiden said would happen is exactly what happened.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 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

In December 1714 he visited Leipzig and performed Cantata No. 61, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus

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