Ryan PIVIROTTO

United States of America
Short Track Speed Skating
14 May 1995
26
Male
ANN ARBOR, MI
 
United States of America
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
 
United States of America

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
STK Short Track Speed Skating Men's 500m 16
Men's 1000m 13
Men's 1500m PEN
Mixed Team Relay
USA
United States of America
 8

Schedule

Start Time Location Event Status
After Heat 6 		Capital Indoor Stadium
Men's 1000m - Heat 7
Finished
After Quarterfinal 2 		Capital Indoor Stadium
Mixed Team Relay - Quarterfinal 3
Finished
Capital Indoor Stadium
Mixed Team Relay - Semifinal 2
Finished
After Quarterfinal 3 		Capital Indoor Stadium
Men's 1000m - Quarterfinal 4
Finished
After Quarterfinal 2 		Capital Indoor Stadium
Men's 1500m - Quarterfinal 3
Finished
After Heat 5 		Capital Indoor Stadium
Men's 500m - Heat 6
Finished
After Quarterfinal 3 		Capital Indoor Stadium
Men's 500m - Quarterfinal 4
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Historical Results

Olympic Games
RankEventYearLocation
5Men's 5000 metres Relay2018PyeongChang, KOR
World Championships
RankEventYearLocation
7Men's 5000m Relay2021Dordrecht, NED
8Men's 5000m Relay2015Moscow, RUS
11Men's 500m2021Dordrecht, NED
14Men's 1000m2021Dordrecht, NED
23Men's Overall2021Dordrecht, NED
45Men's 1500m2021Dordrecht, NED
Four Continents Championships
RankEventYearLocation
3Men's 5000m Relay2020Montreal, QC, CAN
9Men's 1500m2020Montreal, QC, CAN
10Men's 1000m2020Montreal, QC, CAN
11Men's 500m2020Montreal, QC, CAN
13Men's Overall2020Montreal, QC, CAN
World Cup
SeasonMen's 500mMen's 1000mMen's 1500m
2021/22353033
2019/20703033
2017/183337
2016/17475455
2014/15213288
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Paddleboarding, baking, playing video games.

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Athlete, Student

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Business (Information Systems) - Salt Lake Community College (UT, USA)

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Fiancee, Nikki Leonard. Father, Scott. Mother, Carolyn. Sister, Jessica.

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English

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National: Stephen Gough (CAN)

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2014 World Cup in Salt Lake City, UT, USA (1000m - 24th/12th, Relay - 3rd)

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2018/19: Cut to his left ankle and did not compete for a year.

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2014

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Originally played ice hockey, which he began at age five, but switched short track in March 2010 after watching the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. “Eventually, I got tired of the people, tired of the sport. I wanted to try something different. I sat down with my parents and I told them it would have to be a winter sport, it would have to involve ice. That’s what I know. That’s what I’m good at. I knew I was always one of the fastest skaters on the hockey team. I never knew how good of a skater I was. My parents kept getting compliments, ‘Ryan is really good at skating. He makes it look so easy.’” (theday.com, 6 Feb 2018; eu.freep.com, 20 Feb 2018)

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"My first time, I was worried about adjusting to the skate blade since it is thinner than on hockey skates. I ended up not having any problems. Everyone was surprised at how well I did. I just progressed fast. By 2013, three years after I started, I started racing the top guys in the nation. I made a lot of progress from my first year on.” (eu.freep.com, 20 Feb 2018)

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Short track skater Apolo Anton Ohno (USA), two-time Olympic gold medallist and eight-time world champion.

Short track skater Victor An (RUS), six-time Olympic gold medallist and 20-time world champion. (isu.org)

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“If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.” - Rudyard Kipling (teamusa.org)

General Interest

OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE
Attended the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games, but ended up watching from the stands as an alternate for the men’s relay and 1000m races, without ever making it to the ice, which dented his confidence. “I was asking myself, ‘Am I really that good? I can’t even skate at the Olympics. I’ve asked that a lot: ‘Is this all I can really do? Am I done?’"

It took a conversation with then US national team coach Wilma Boomstra (NED) to regroup. "I think my talk with Wil was the thing that really was the turning point. I was able to bury all my doubts, all my grudges, everything that happened to me at the Olympics and that season. I was able to bury it and just forget about it, or not have it affect me as a skater.” (teamusa.org; sltrib.com, 3 Jan 2020)

KOREAN TRAINING
Moved to the Republic of Korea in May 2016 in preparation for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games in order to train with former US national team coach Jae Su Chun (KOR). “There’s so much volume, so many skaters there that are at the top of their games and so fast and can skate internationally. The way they train over there is a lot of volume, and no matter how much they were able to do, everything was at a way faster speed than I could have done. It’d be two hours on ice, plus an hour and a half of dry land into a big rest into another hour and a half of dry land and another hour and a half of ice.

"We have similar training here but being with the amount of talented skaters in Korea, that was the biggest thing I picked up. Also, how to race. I thought I knew how to race, but when I saw what they were doing, these kids were passing me so easily. But it made me understand what they were doing and what I could do to make them not pass me and what I could do for myself in order to pass them. It gave me a deeper understanding of what the sport really is.” (teamusa.org, 16 Jul 2021)

COMPUTING
Once built his own computer, and is now combining his love of computing with business as part of his course at Salt Lake Community College. He is interested in pursuing a career after sport in information security. “Basically you’re hired to legally break into a network to look for security flaws. That fascinates me.” (teamusa.org, 16 Jul 2021)

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