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Brittany Bowe

Brittany Starr Bowe (born February 24, 1988) is an American speed skater and former inline skater and basketball player. She has won eight gold, one silver, and two bronze medals from the world inline speedskating championships. From her junior years, she has another 21 world championship medals. She also has a gold medal from the combined sprint event in roller skating at the 2007 Pan American Games.

In speed skating, she has specialized in the 500, 1000 and 1500 meters, and she won the bronze medal on the 1000 meters distance in the 2013 World Single Distance Championships. In the 2015 World Single Distance Championships, she won the gold medal on the same distance, as well as another gold medal in the 1500 meters, and the silver medal in the 500 meters. Two weeks later, she also won the 2015 World Sprint Championships, winning all four races along the way. She has two bronze medals, from the 2018 and 2022 Olympics.

For her performance in the 1000 metres competition of the Single Distance Championships, Bowe was awarded the 2015 Oscar Mathisen Award.

Bowe is the current world record holder in the 1000 meters distance, and has previously held the 1500 meters world record, in which distance she holds the American record.

Bowe was born in Ocala, Florida, to Michael and Deborah Bowe (née Starr), and grew up practicing several sports from an early age, including basketball and soccer. At the age of 2, she would give dribbling exhibitions at halftime of college basketball games. Though making it to a statewide under-13 boys travel team in soccer, she gave that sport up, because of overlapping seasons with basketball.

She attended the Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, and then Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, where she played basketball for the Florida Atlantic Owls. She graduated in 2010, majoring in sociology and social science.

In 1996, at the age of 8, Bowe began inline skating. She competed at increasingly higher levels, ultimately participating in world championships from 2002 to 2008, where she won 32 medals altogether. At the senior level, Bowe made her debut at the 2008 World Inline Speed Skating Championships in Gijón, Spain, where she was selected for the U.S. national team after qualifying at the 2008 Inline Speed Skating National Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Bowe is a 13-time medalist at the World Single Distances Championships (four gold, four silver, and five bronze). She has won medals four times at the World Sprint Championships (two gold, one silver, one bronze). Beyond the world championships, Bowe represented the United States at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she won a gold medal in the combined sprint event in roller sports.

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