Fred Anton Maier

Not to be confused with Fred Anton.

Fred Anton Maier (15 December 1938 – 9 June 2015) was a speed skater from Norway. He was among the dominating skaters throughout the 1960s, specialising in the longer distances.

Fred Anton Maier

Maier, January 1968
Personal information
Born	(1938-12-15)15 December 1938 Nøtterøy, Norway
Died	9 June 2015(2015-06-09) (aged 76) Nøtterøy, Norway
Sport
Country	Norway
Sport	Men's speed skating
Club	Tønsbergs TF
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	500 m: 41.8 (1968) 1000 m: 1:24.3 (1968) 1500 m: 2:06.1 (1968) 3000 m: 4:17.5 (1968) 5000 m: 7:16.7 (1968) 10 000 m: 15:20.3 (1968)
Medal record Men's speed skating Representing Norway Olympic Games 1968 Grenoble 5,000 m 1964 Innsbruck 10,000 m 1968 Grenoble 10,000 m 1964 Innsbruck 5,000 m

Maier won four Olympic medals: silver on the 10,000 m and bronze on the 5,000 m at the 1964 Olympics, and gold on the 5,000 m and silver on the 10,000 m at the 1968 Olympics. In 1968, he also became European and World Allround Champion. In total, Maier set eleven world records. For a brief week in 1968 he held four world records simultaneously, the 3,000 m, 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the allround samalogue record.

In addition, Maier excelled in cycling, winning two National Time Trial Championships bronze medals (in 1957 and 1967). In 1967, he was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris and in 1968, he won the Oscar Mathisen Award and was chosen Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year.

Maier died from cancer on 9 June 2015 at the age of 76. The Tønsberg Stadion was renamed in 2015, to take his name and a statue of Maier was erected at the stadium's south entrance.

Medals

An overview of medals won by Maier at important championships he participated in, listing the years in which he won each:

Championships	Gold medal	Silver medal	Bronze medal
Winter Olympics	1968 (5,000 m)	1964 (10,000 m) 1968 (10,000 m)	1964 (5,000 m)
World Allround	1968	–	–
European Allround	1968	–	–
Norwegian Allround	1965	1966 1967 1968	1961

Records

World records

Over the course of his career, Maier skated eleven world records:

Discipline	Time	Date	Location	Notes
5000 m	7.28,1	4 March 1965	Notodden	Beaten by Kees Verkerk on 26 February 1967
10,000 m	15.32,2	6 February 1966	Oslo	Beaten by Maier himself (see below)
Big combination	178.253	6 February 1966	Oslo	Beaten by Kees Verkerk on 12 February 1967
10,000 m	15.31,8	28 February 1967	Inzell	Beaten by Maier himself (see below)
5000 m	7.26,2	7 January 1968	Deventer	Beaten by Maier himself (see below)
10,000 m	15.29,5	21 January 1968	Horten	Beaten by Maier himself (see below)
10,000 m	15.20,3	28 January 1968	Oslo	Beaten by Per Willy Guttormsen on 10 March 1968
5000 m	7.22,4	15 February 1968	Grenoble	Beaten by Maier himself (see below)
Big combination	176.340	25 February 1968	Gothenburg	Beaten by Kees Verkerk on 10 March 1968
3000 m	4.17,5	7 March 1968	Inzell	Beaten by Dag Fornæss on 28 January 1969
5000 m	7.16,7	9 March 1968	Inzell	Beaten by Kees Verkerk on 1 March 1969

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

Personal records

To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Maier skated his personal records.

Event	Result	Date	Venue	WR
500 m	41.8	3 February 1968	Davos	39.2
1,000 m	1:24.3	1 December 1968	Inzell	1:20.5
1,500 m	2:06.1	10 March 1968	Inzell	2:02.5
3,000 m	4:17.5	7 March 1968	Inzell	4:18.4
5,000 m	7:16.7	9 March 1968	Inzell	7:22.4
10,000 m	15:20.3	28 January 1968	Bislett	15:29.5

Maier has an Adelskalender score of 173.518 points. His highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a second place.

Biography

• Maier forteller til Knut Bjørnsen (Aschehoug, Oslo, 1968) (in Norwegian)

External links

• Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
• Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages