Heiden

American  

[hahyd-n] / ˈhaɪd n /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

By winning races across five distances in 1980, Madison native Eric Heiden became the only athlete in American history to win five golds at one winter Olympics.

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

The Baron de Heiden, General of the Horse, was Governor of it when I was there.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von