Who is Eric Heiden? What are 4 careers that he has either attempted or had success in, up until 2014?
Eric Heiden was born in Wisconsin in 1958 and has most recently been a physician. He is best known for winning 5 gold medals in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.

Eric's first career was in speed skating, where he won the World Junior Speed Skating Championships for two consecutive years in the late 1970s. Between 1976 and 1980, he set 15 world records in the sport. He remained at the apex of the rankings for long-track speed skating for just a little over 4 years.

Eric's second career was a brief stint as a track cyclist; he participated in the 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the Czech Republic, where he finished in the very back of the pack in the men's individual pursuit.

Third, Eric was a professional racing cyclist for a couple of years in the mid-1980s. His biggest accomplishment in this sport was being declared the American road race champion in 1985.

Last, from the late 1990s through 2014, Eric has been a sports physician and an orthopedic surgeon, He was a team physician for two professional basketball teams as well as the team physician four times for the U.S. Olympic speed skating team.