Mike Ireland

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Medal record
World Championships
Bronze	2004 Nagano	Sprint
Bronze	2004 Seoul	500 m
Bronze	2002	Sprint
Gold	2001	Sprint
Bronze	2000	Sprint
Silver	2000	500 m
Bronze	2000	1000 m

Michael ("Mike") Ireland (born 3 January 1974 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a long track speed skater.

Mike Ireland specialises in the sprint distances (the 500 m and the 1,000 m). He participated in the 500 m at the 1994 Winter Olympics (finishing 26th), the 500 m (6th) and 1,000 m (14th) at the 2002 Winter Olympics and the 500 m (7th) at the 2006 Winter Olympics. Ireland was the 2001 World Sprint Champion, while winning several more medals at several World Championships (see the next section), and he also set a world record on the 1,000 m (only to be broken 8 days later by compatriot Jeremy Wotherspoon).

[edit] Medals

An overview of medals won by Ireland at important championships he participated in, listing the years in which he won each:

[edit] World records

Over the course of his career, Ireland skated one world record:

Distance	Time	Date	Location
1,000 m	1:08.34	3 March 2001	Calgary

[edit] References

• Mike Ireland at SkateResults.com
• Photos of Mike Ireland