Viktor Hald Thorup
Hald Thorup in 2009, aged 15 | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 August 1994 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Denmark (2018-) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||
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Viktor Hald Thorup (born 14 August 1994) is a Danish speed skater who competes internationally.
At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Thorup won a silver medal in the men's mass start event. With this result, he became Denmark's second ever medalist at the Winter Olympics, almost three decades after the women's curling second place at the 1998 Olympics edition in Nagano, Japan. He also became the first Dane to earn a Winter Olympics medal in an indvidual event.
Viktor Hald Thorup currently holds Danish national records in the men's 1500m, 3000m, 5000m and 10000m.