Eric Heiden: Five Individual Gold Medals

　　埃里克·海登：在同一届奥运会上获得5块个人金牌的第1人

　　Prior to 1980, no athlete had ever won five individual gold medals in a single Olympic Games--Summer or Winter. (Mark Spitz's record-setting seven gold medals in 1972 included three team events.) Then Eric Heiden took to the ice at Lake Placid, N.Y., and dominated his sport in a way no one had ever seen before. Heiden won gold in every speed-skating event, from the 500-meter sprint to the 10,000-meter race. And he set an Olympic record at every distance.

　　在1980年之前，没有运动员能够在同一届奥运会上取得5块个人金牌。不过在1980年美国纽约州普莱西德湖举行的冬奥会上，本土选手埃里克创造了这一纪录。从500米到1万米，他在所有竞滑项目中取得了冠军。