Sicilian Splendors: Discovering the Secret Places That Speak to the Heart

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Eric Heiden, Johann Olav Koss, Clara Hughes, Alfred Ingvald Næss, Chad Hedrick, Ard Schenk, Hjalmar Andersen, Oscar Mathisen, Ivar Ballangrud, Sverre Farstad, Kees Verkerk, Lidiya Skoblikova, Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, Knut Johannesen, Tomas Gustafson, Bart Veldkamp, Fred Anton Maier, Clas Thunberg, Rolf Falk-Larssen, Jan Egil Storholt, Randi Thorvaldsen, Kit Klein, Dan Jansen, Jonny Nilsson, Charles Mathiesen, Roald Larsen, Uwe-Jens Mey, Åke Seyffarth, Jaap Eden, Laila Schou Nilsen, Erhard Keller, Michael Staksrud, Kay Stenshjemmet, Per Willy Guttormsen, Kornél Pajor, Ådne Søndrål, Göran Claeson, Dag Fornæss, Geir Karlstad, Ants Antson, Magne Thomassen, Rudolf Gundersen, Lasse Efskind, Nils Aaness, Rimma Zhukova, Hans Engnestangen, Juhani Järvinen, Armand Carlsen, Ivar Eriksen, Liselotte Landbeck, Max Stiepl, Sigurd Mathisen, Kristian Strøm, Anton Huiskes, Peder Østlund, Allan Potts, Tatyana Sidorova, Svein-Erik Stiansen, Siem Heiden, Viktor Varlamov, Valentin Chaikin, Boris Gulyaev, Oskar Fredriksen, Einar Halvorsen, Yuri Sergeev, Viktor Shasherin, Dmitry Ogloblin, Halfdan Nielsen, Viktor Lyoshkin, Wilhelm Mauseth, Nikolay Mamonov. Excerpt: Karl Alfred Ingvald Næss Karl Alfred Ingvald Næss (April 26, 1877 July 6, 1955) was a Norwegian speedskater . He set the men's world record for 500 meter speed skating on February 5, 1893 at 49.4 seconds in Hamar, Norway . He then broke his own world record 21 days later on February 26, 1893 at 48.0 seconds, then lowered it to 47.0 seconds on February 24, 1894 at Hamar, Norway . He was the youngest European champion of all time, in 1895 he was 17 years and 276 days when he won the European Speed Skating Championships for Men . Biography He was the son of Anne Jette Jensen (1847-?) of Kragerø or Skåtøy ; and Kristian Andersen Næss (1848-?) o...