Eden Donatelli
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July 20, 1970 Mission, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Canada
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| Sport | Short track speed skating | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Eden Donatelli (born July 19, 1970) is a Canadian short track speed skating coach and former athlete. Donatelli is an Olympic medalist and ten-time championship medalist in the sport.
Born in Mission, British Columbia, Donatelli became the youngest ever athlete to make the Canadian Senior National Team at only 15 years of age. During her career, Donatelli medaled in ten different World Championships from 1986 to 1992. In the 1988 Winter Olympics, while short track speed skating was still a demonstration sport, she won Silver in the women's 500m event. After retiring from skating, Donatelli married English speed skater and coach Julian Green, and has three children. Together with her husband and father, Eden coaches the Ridge Meadows Racers in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.
At thirteen months old, Eden began skating at the local ice rink in Mission. Her mother was teaching her 3-year-old brother to skate and she didn’t know what to do with Eden while she had her brother on the ice, so she decided to teach them both at the same time. Eden figure skated at the Mission arena at age 3 and then switched to speed skating at age 4. Her father, George, having coached hockey for several years, was her speed skating coach. Her mother, Jane schooled her in Highland Dancing giving Eden plyometric strength and an advantage on the ice. Together they forged a team that quickly made Eden the fastest skater in her own age class and often more senior age classes too. She often competed with children two or three years her senior just to challenge her abilities!
Despite being the fastest female for the BC Canada Winter Games Team in 1983, Eden was not permitted to compete due to her young age; a rule that has since been challenged and defeated by Human Rights Law. That same season she qualified for the Canadian National Training Team at the age of 13 years! As a result, she was never on a provincial team and went directly to representing both BC and Canada at World Championships.
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