Arne Dankers

Arne Dankers (born June 1, 1980) is a Canadian speed skater.

Background Dankers was born to Peter Dankers and Marja Verhoef, who are both Dutch. The family moved to Canada when he was two years old.

After retiring from speed skating following the 2008-09 season, Dankers graduated from the University of Calgary with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and later completed a PhD at the Delft University of Technology. He subsequently returned to the University of Calgary in a postdoctoral position, and began publishing research in the fields of dynamic network analysis and systems engineering.

2006 Winter Olympics At the 2006 Olympics he participated in the following events: Speed Skating, Men's 1500 m Speed Skating, Men's 5000 m – 5th place Speed Skating, Men's 10000 m – 9th place Speed Skating, Men's Team Pursuit – Silver

Dankers placed 5th place in the 5000m men's speed skating final and his team won a silver medal in Men's team pursuit speed skating.