Tristan Loy (born 11 May 1973) is a French long distance and marathon

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, long track

, and inline speedskater. Loy won the 120 kilometres race of the 2006 Finland Ice Marathon in

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. During the 2006 Six Days of the Greenery he did not win a race, nor the final classification, but he was named to be the most exciting skater of the tournament. As a result, he was awarded 18 points for the 2007 Dick van Gangelen Trophy, most of all participating skaters. Loy also takes part in international

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 ...

races, usually over the long distances 5,000 and 10,000 metres. His performances include a first place (Kolomna, December 2007) and a second place (Erfurt, February 2007) in the B group World Cup race over 10,000 metres. On the first of these occasions, his Group B winning time 13:14.92 was only beaten by one skater in Group A; and on the second occasion, his time was the sixth fastest at the event, faster than Olympic gold medallist

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. , Loy is ranked 20th in the 10,000-m distance all-time list. His personal bests are as follows:Tristan Loy
from Jakub Majerski's Speed Skating Database

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Living people 1973 births French male speed skaters {{France-speed-skating-bio-stub