Cathrine Grage


Cathrine Grage is a Danish Olympic speedskater, inline skater and cyclist. Grage and fellow skater Oliver Sundberg are the first Danish speedskaters to reach international competition levels since Kurt Stille ended his career in 1964.
Grage's results from 2006 to 2011 were good enough to pass the qualification limits of the International Skating Union for participation in the European Championships. She also competed regularly in ISU's World Cup from 2005 til 2011. Her best result at European Championships was 13th on the 3000 m. In 2006, she became the first female All Round Danish Champion.
Grage holds the Danish records at all distances, and has set a national record of 51 national records over the individual distances since she started competing in 2005: 10 on the 500-m; 8 on the 1,000-m; 10 on the 1,500-m; 14 on the 3,000-m; 5 on the 5,000-m; and finally 3 in the 10,000-m. In addition she has set a total of 8 further national records in the samalogue events..
As of December 2007, her Danish records were 43.19 on the 500-m, 1:23.07 on the 1,000-m, 2:03.21 on the 1,500-m, 4:13.85 on the 3,000-m, 7:20.45 on the 5,000-m, and 15:14.90 on the 10,000-m. All of these were already stronger than Kurt Stille's results, which up to March 2005 were Danish records for men.
The pre-Olympic 2008-2009 season was not a very successful one for Grage, e.g. regarding World Cup results. But in Calgary, March 2009, she again managed to set new national records, in fact six such over three days : 42.99 on the 500-m; 2:01.88 on the 1,500-m; 1:22.52 on the 1,000-m; 4:11.86 on the 3,000-m; resulting also in the small combination pointsum record 166.853; and finally 15:11.84 in the 10,000-m.
Grage qualified for the World Championships Single Distances in 2008 in Nagano, where she placed 14th on the 5,000 m and 20th on the 3,000 m - and in 2011 in Inzell where she placed 16th in the 5,000 m and 19th in the 3,000 m.
Grage participated in her first Olympic Games, after only 4 years of participating in Long track speed skating. She competed in the 3000m Ladies event, as well as the 5000m. Grage placed 14th, in the 5000m, with a time of 7:23:83. A difference of +32.92 seconds off the gold. In the 3000m, Cathrine places 27th with a time 4:20.93 and a difference of only +18.40 off the gold.
Grages best results in World Cup was the 7th fastest time over all on the 5,000 m.
Grage stopped speed skating in 2011 and started competing in cycling. In December 2011, she won a silver medal on the 3 km in a time of 3.49 at the Danish Championships in track cycling.

National speedskating records set by Grage

EventDateResultVenue
500-m26 February 200553.60Copenhagen
19 March 200551.79Groningen
6 November 200548.82Gothenburg
17 December 200547.10Inzell
18 December 200546.48Inzell
29 December 200545.56Hamar
10 January 200644.7Hamar
14 January 200643.91Hamar
10 March 200743.19Calgary
18 March 200942.99Calgary
1000-m5 November 20051:36.66Gothenburg
27 November 20051:35.54Karlstad
18 December 20051:32.18Inzell
29 December 20051:30.3Hamar
11 January 20061:25.9Hamar
16 March 20071:23.82Calgary
17 March 20071:23.03Calgary
19 March 20091:22.52Calgary
1500-m26 February 20052:42.25Copenhagen
6 November 20052:21.3Gothenburg
4 December 20052:10.73Heerenveen
29 October 20062:10.70Erfurt
13 January 20072:06.89Collalbo
4 February 20072:06.69Turin
14 March 20072:05.97Calgary
10 November 20072:04.31Salt Lake City
17 November 20072:03.21Calgary
18 March 20092:01.88Calgary
3000-m26 February 20055:22.09Copenhagen
5 November 20054:50.1Gothenburg
27 November 20054:46.84Karlstad
10 December 20054:32.56Turin
29 December 20054:32.45Hamar
14 January 20064:26.38Hamar
12 November 20064:23.67Heerenveen
18 November 20064:22.19Berlin
3 February 20074:21.33Turin
13 March 20074:18.51Calgary
3 November 20074:16.50Salt Lake City
11 November 20074:14.65Salt Lake City
16 November 20074:13.85Calgary
19 March 20094:11.86Calgary
5000-m3 December 20057:38.79Heerenveen
22 October 20067:38.51Erfurt
18 February 20077:28.99Erfurt
14 March 20077:28.06Calgary
1 December 20077:20.45Kolomna
10,000-m4 March 200616:24.29Groningen
21 March 200615:48.86Heerenveen
15 March 200715:14.90Calgary
20 March 200915:11.84Calgary

Grage also owns various national samalogue records; these are apparently not all ratified by the Danish skating association, however. With reasonable definitions, these samalogue records are as follows :
Overall sprint combination:
170.245, Calgary, 15–16 March 2007.
Overall mini combination:
192.600, Gothenburg, 4–5 November 2005.
181.284, Hamar, 27–28 December 2005.
166.853, Calgary, 18–19 March 2009.
Overall small combination:
182.553, Hamar, 27–28 December 2005.
178.920, Erfurt, 27–28 October 2006.
173.171, Calgary, 12–13 March 2007.
Overall big combination:
175.831, Calgary, 12–13 March 2007.
UPDATE:

New national speedskating records set by Grage 19. sept 2010 - 61 in total

EventDateResultVenue
500-m19 December 200942,27Calgary
1000-m19 December 20091:21.68Calgary
1500-m13 November 20091:59.86Salt Lake
3000-m12 November 20094:07.73Salt Lake
5000-m21 November 20097:10,24Hamar
10,000-m20 March 200915:11.84Calgary

Results from Inline Skating
Cathrine Grage has more than 20 national titles on inline skates and she has won the Master World Championships one time and the Master European Championships 4 times.
Grage skated the World Inline Cup for two seasons. Her best results were 5th in Glarus and 11th in Seoul.
Grage participated in the European Championships in Heerde 2004, where she placed 8th on the 1,000 m and 13th in the points. Grage was on the Danish National team in Inline skating from 2003 to 2006.