Meet Dutch bisexual Olympic speedskater gold medalist Ireen Wust

New Delhi: Ireen Wust gave the Netherlands its second straight gold medal at the Olympic speedskating oval by winning the women's 3,000 meters in Sochi on Sunday.Only some know about her sexual orientation. Wust is openly bisexual. In October 2009 she declared that she was bisexual and had a girlfriend, fellow speed skater Sanne van Kerkhof, later she broke up with Van Kerkhof and was in a relationship with a new, male, partner.Wust at the age of 19, on 12 February 2006 and won the gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games 3000-meter event. She is the youngest Dutch Olympic champion in Winter Games history. Four years later in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games she won the 1500-meter event. She is also a multiple world champion.Wust debuted at the 2004 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships in November 2003 with 9th places in 500 m and 1500 m. At the end of the season she won the silver medal in the world junior championships in Roseville, Minnesota, USA.At the Olympics, her first distance was the 3000 m where Wust beat Groenewold and Cindy Klassen of Canada and became the youngest Olympic champion from the Netherlands in the history of the Winter Olympics.After the end of the season Wust was elected as the best Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 2006. She also became the female skater of the year.At the 2007 World Distance Championships she won gold medals in the 1000 m, breaking the national record, and the 1500 m.Then in Nagano during the 2008 World Distance Championships she won the gold medal in the team pursuit alongside Groenewold and Van Deutekom. Wust won only one world race this season, the 1500 m in Hamar.At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver she won a gold medal at the 1500 m.