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Derek Parra (born March 15, 1970) is an American inline skater and speed skater from San Bernardino, California , who graduated from Eisenhower High School in Rialto, California , in 1988. Parra won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics , held in Salt Lake City , Utah.
Career
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Parra's most successful season was from 2001 to 2002. At the 2002 Winter Olympics , he took the gold in the 1500 meters, an event in which he had been expected to do well but faced a deep pool of competition. Before that, he won the silver in the 5000 meters being bested by Jochem Uytdehaage of the Netherlands. He has worked part-time in Home Depot 's gardening department in West Valley City, Utah .[1] In his book, Reflections in the Ice , Parra recounts pursuing his dream of becoming an inline skater at 17, working at McDonald's in Tampa, Florida , and being so poor he had to eat out of the trash.[1] [2]
Parra was selected to take over as U.S. speed skating national all-around coach for the 2010 Olympics.
He appears in a Restore Our Future television ad endorsing Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 U.S. presidential election and spoke at the 2012 Republican National Convention . Parra became friends with Romney when he was president of the Salt Lake City Olympic organizing committee.[3]
Records
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Personal records
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Personal records [4]
Men's speed skating
Event
Result
Date
Location
Notes
500 m
35.88
December 18, 2001
Utah Olympic Oval , Salt Lake City
1000 m
1:08.87
January 11, 2003
Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
1500 m
1:43.95
February 19, 2002
Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
World record until beaten by Shani Davis on January 9, 2005.[5]
3000 m
3:46.14
February 3, 2002
Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
5000 m
6:17.98
February 9, 2002
Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
10000 m
13:33.44
February 22, 2002
Utah Olympic Oval, Salt Lake City
World records
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Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com[6]
References
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^ Parra, Derek; Quinn, Patrick (2003). Reflections in the Ice: Inside the Heart and Mind of an Olympic Champion . Discovery Bay, CA: Podium Pub. ISBN 978-1-932618-00-6 .
^ Benson, Lee (16 February 2012). "For Parra, the Games changed everything" . Deseret News .
^ "Derek Parra" . www.speedskatingresults.com. Retrieved August 29, 2012 .
^ "Evolution of the world record 1500 meters Men" . www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved June 4, 2014 .
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"Derek Parra" . www.speedskatingstats.com. Retrieved August 29, 2012 .
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