Kimi Goetz (born August 13, 1994) is an American

speed skater Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marath ...

who represented the United States at the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas wit ...

Early life

Raised in

Flemington, New Jersey Flemington is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in and the county seat of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Hunterdon Central Regional High School Hunterdon Central Regional High School is a comprehensive high school, comprehensive, four-year state school, public Secondary education in the United States, high school, and regional school district that serves students from five municipaliti ...

in 2012 and headed out to

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, where she saw other inline skaters who had made the transition to speed skating on ice.

Career

During the first day of the 2018 U.S. Olympic Trials, Goetz fell and hit her head and suffered a concussion after a skate technician at the event failed to bolt her blade into her boot properly. As a result, she failed to make the Olympic team. During the summer of 2018, she switched from

short track speed skating Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice skating, ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of . The rink itself is long by wide, which is the s ...

long track speed skating 　 Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic sport, Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skat ...

. She represented the United States at the

. At the

2022–23 ISU Speed Skating World Cup The 2022-23 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was an international level speed skating tournament. The season consisted of 6 events, and began on 11 November 2022 in Stavanger, Norway and ended on 19 February 2023 in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. The W ...

Goetz won five medals, including her first gold medal in the 1,000 meter event on February 12, 2023, in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. She ended the season ranked among the top five in both the 500 and 1,000 metres. She also won the World Cup season title in the women's team sprint along with McKenzie Browne and

Erin Jackson Erin Jackson (born September 19, 1992) is an American speed skater, roller derby player, and Olympic gold medalist. Jackson is the first Black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in an individual sport. She qualified for The World Games 20 ...

. At the

2023 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships The 2023 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships were held from 2 to 5 March 2023, at Thialf in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Schedule ''All times are local (UTC+1 +01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. In ISO ...

, Goetz won a silver medal in the women's team sprint with a time of 1:26.58. At the

2024 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships The 2024 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships were held from February 15 to 18, 2024, at the Olympic Oval in Calgary Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a populatio ...

, Goetz won a bronze medal in the 500 meters with a time of 37.21. This was her first individual World Championships medal.

Personal life

Goetz's boyfriend is Olympic speed skater

Mitchell Whitmore Mitchell Whitmore (born December 18, 1989) is an American long track speed skater from Waukesha, Wisconsin. His coach is Mike Witty, whose sister Chris Witty won three Olympic medals, and trains at the Pettit National Ice Center in Milwaukee, Wis ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goetz, Kimi 1994 births Living people American female speed skaters Hunterdon Central Regional High School alumni Sportspeople from Flemington, New Jersey Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for the United States World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists 21st-century American sportswomen