Brittany Bowe

Brittany Bowe

Brittany Bowe in 2007
Personal information
Birth name	Brittany Starr Bowe
Born	(1988-02-24) February 24, 1988 (age 29) Ocala, Florida
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Speed skating
Coached by	Ryan Shimabukuro
Medal record Women's speed skating Representing the  United States World Championships 2015 Heerenveen 1000 m 2015 Heerenveen 1500 m 2015 Astana Sprint 2016 Seoul Sprint 2015 Heerenveen 500 m 2016 Kolomna 500 m 2013 Sochi 1000 m 2016 Kolomna 1000 m 2016 Kolomna 1500 m Women's inline speed skating World Championships (road) 2008 Gijón 5000 m relay 2007 Cali 500 m 2007 Cali 5000 m relay 2006 Anyang 5000 m relay 2007 Cali 200 m World Championships (track) 2008 Gijón 300 m 2008 Gijón 3000 m relay 2007 Cali 3000 m relay 2006 Anyang 3000 m relay 2008 Gijón 1000 m 2008 Gijón 500 m Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro Combined sprint

Brittany Starr Bowe (born February 24, 1988) is an American speed skater and former inline skater and basketball player. She has 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.

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 holder of the 1000 metres world record, and briefly held the 1500 metres world 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, joining their basketball team, the Florida Atlantic Owls. She graduated in 2010, majoring in sociology and social science.