Kimi GOETZ
United States of AmericaEvents and Medals
| Discipline | Event | Rank | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|
 Speed Skating |
Women's 500m | 18 | |
| Women's 1000m | 7 |
Schedule
Biographical Information
Highlights
Historical Results
| World Single Distance Championships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
| 5 | Women's 500m | 2020 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| 5 | Women's 1000m | 2020 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| 7 | Women's Team Pursuit | 2019 | Inzell, GER |
| 11 | Women's Sprint | 2020 | Hamar, NOR |
| 15 | Women's 1000m | 2019 | Inzell, GER |
| 18 | Women's Mass Start | 2019 | Inzell, GER |
| 21 | Women's 1500m | 2020 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| World Sprint Championships | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
| 17 | Women's Sprint | 2019 | Heerenveen, NED |
| World Cup | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Women's 500m | Women's 1000m | Women's 1500m | Women's Team Pursuit | Women's Team Sprint | Women's Mass Start |
| 2019/20 | 11 | 16 | 32 | 5 | 9 | |
| 2018/19 | 28 | 27 | 43 | 9 | 10 | 21 |
Kimberly
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Father Roger. Mother, Linda. Brother, Kyle. Sister, Samantha. Partner, Mitchell Whitmore.
English
National: Ryan Shimabukuro (USA)
Sister Samantha Goetz (Inline speed skating): Two World Championship appearances (2010-11). Competed at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara.
Partner Mitchell Whitmore (Speed skating): Three-time US Olympian (2010-18), with the best result of 10th at PyeongChang 2018 (1000m). Finished fourth in the 500m at the 2017 World Single Distance Championship. One World Cup in the team sprint. World junior 500m champion in 2009.
Short track speed skating: Two World Championship appearances (2015-16), with one top-20 finishes. Competed in three World Cup seasons (2014-17), with a best result of fourth in the 1000m at Dresden in 2016 (only one other top-20 individual finish). Missed selection for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games after finishing fifth at the Olympic Team Trials.
Inline speed skating: Competed internationally as a junior.
2018 World Cup in Obihiro (500m B - 11th, 1000m A - 20th, 1500m B - 18th)
December 2017: Concussion at the Olympic Trials ruled her out of the competition and missed selection for PyeongChang 2018. Off the ice for four months.
2016: Back injury. Eventually resolved in April 2018 after surgery.
2011: Torn Achilles tendon forced her to miss five months.
2018
Began inline skating at age five. Took up short track in 2013 in Salt Lake City, UT, before switching to speed skating in August 2018 while recovering from an injury. (isu.org)
"My dad would take me and my sister there [the roller rink] three days a week, and we have a little brother who's 10 years younger than me, so once he was old enough to skate, he started coming as well. So it was just like a family thing. I really had no intentions of switching to ice. A lot of the people that I skated with, they had already moved to Utah or moved to Milwaukee and started ice, and I really just wasn't interested. But my sister had already been living in Utah because her now-husband was a skater, and I went to visit her, and I went to watch him practise, and I thought, 'I want to do this'." (isu.org)
Win a medal at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (teamusa.org, 16 Feb 2020)
Competing at the 2020 World Single Distance Championships in Salt Lake City, where she had two fifth-place finishes. “I had the best races of my life. My family came and it was just a really good experience. I would love to try to do that again.” (nbcsports.com, 4 Sep 2021)
Her partner and former coach, Mitchell Whitmore (USA), three-time Olympian and 2009 world junior champion. (isu.org)
Her family. (isu.org)
Every Sunday night, she sits down to write out her training, working and eating plans for the upcoming week. (nbcsports.com, 4 Sep 2021)
"An expert at anything was once a beginner.” (nbcsports.com, 4 Sep 2021)
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