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Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
About Mike Ireland
- Michael ("Mike") Ireland (born 3 January 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian long track speed skater. Ireland specialises in the sprint distances (the 500 m and the 1000 m).
- He participated in the 500 m at the 1994 Winter Olympics (finishing 26th), the 500 m (6th) and 1000 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 1000 m (only to be broken 8 days later by compatriot Jeremy Wotherspoon). In November 2008 Ireland suffered a severe injury in a World Cup event in Berlin.
- Later in the same meet teammate Wotherspoon broke his arm in seven places.
- In a span of two days Canada's two strongest sprinters were placed in serious jeopardy of not skating in the 2010 Olympics in their home country.
- Both skaters started the long road to recovery and in the 2010 Canadian Olympic trials both succeeded in their comebacks.
- Ireland qualified in the 500 and is a member of the Canadian 2010 Olympic speed skating team.
- He skated the fastest time of the trials 34.46 and set a personal best.
- Often skating in the shadow of his teammate Jeremy Wotherspoon, Ireland is the second most decorated Canadian in speed World Cup sprints.
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