Additional Information
Highlights
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
|---|
| Olympic Winter Games |
| 3 | 1500 m | 2010 | Vancouver, BC, CAN |
| 3 | 5000 m Relay | 2010 | Vancouver, BC, CAN |
| 8 | 1000 m | 2010 | Vancouver, BC, CAN |
| World Championships |
| 1 | 5000 m Relay | 2009 | Vienna, AUT |
| 2 | 5000 m Relay | 2010 | Sofia, BUL |
| 2 | Individual Final Classification | 2009 | Vienna, AUT |
| 3 | 1000 m | 2010 | Sofia, BUL |
| 3 | 1000 m | 2009 | Vienna, AUT |
| 3 | 1500 m | 2009 | Vienna, AUT |
| 4 | 1500 m | 2010 | Sofia, BUL |
| 4 | Individual Final Classification | 2010 | Sofia, BUL |
| 5 | 500 m | 2013 | Debrecen, HUN |
| 7 | 5000 m Relay | 2013 | Debrecen, HUN |
| 9 | 500 m | 2010 | Sofia, BUL |
| 23 | 1500 m | 2013 | Debrecen, HUN |
| 23 | Individual Final Classification | 2013 | Debrecen, HUN |
| YC | 1000 m | 2013 | Debrecen, HUN |
| World Team Championships |
| 3 | Team | 2009 | Heerenveen, NED |
| World Cup Rankings overview - displays all rankings from 2010/11, top three for earlier seasons |
| Season | 500m | 1000m | 1500m |
|---|
| 2013/2014 | 13 | 7 | 7 |
| 2012/2013 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| 2011/2012 | - | 5 | 11 |
| Best performance per season in World Cup events from 2010/2011 |
| Season | 500m | 1000m | 1500m | Relay |
|---|
| 2013/2014 | 1 x 6th | 1 x 3rd | 1 x 1st | 2 x 1st |
| 2012/2013 | 1 x 1st | 1 x 2nd | 2 x 2nd | 1 x 3rd |
| 2011/2012 | - | 1 x 2nd | 2 x 3rd | 1 x 4th |
| Rank | Event | Year | Location |
|---|
| Ten best World Cup performances in current season |
| 1 | 1500 m | 2013/2014 | Kolomna, RUS |
| 1 | 5000 m Relay | 2013/2014 | Kolomna, RUS |
| 1 | 5000 m Relay | 2013/2014 | Shanghai, CHN |
| 2 | 5000 m Relay | 2013/2014 | Seoul, KOR |
| 3 | 1000 m | 2013/2014 | Kolomna, RUS |
| 5 | 5000 m Relay | 2013/2014 | Torino, ITA |
| 6 | 500 m | 2013/2014 | Shanghai, CHN |
| 7 | 1000 m | 2013/2014 | Seoul, KOR |
| 9 | 500 m | 2013/2014 | Torino, ITA |
| 11 | 1000 m | 2013/2014 | Torino, ITA |
| 11 | 1000 m | 2013/2014 | Shanghai, CHN |
LegendDNS-Did not start, DNF-Did not finish, DSQ-Disqualified
- Nickname: JR (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013)
- Occupation: Athlete
- Languages Spoken: English
- Sporting Relatives: His father Robert John Celski won national inline skating titles. (speedskating.teamusa.org, 2011)
- Debut: 2008 for United States (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013)
- Previous Olympics: Vancouver 2010
- Hobbies: Playing the guitar, listening to music, playing golf, snowboarding, watching the Seattle Seahawks American football team. (NBC, 21 Jan 2010; jrcelski.com, 2011; nbcsports.com, 02 Feb 2014)
- Education: University of California-Berkeley, United States
- Coach: Guy Thibault [national], CAN; Steve Gough, CAN; Alex Zykowski, USA; Anthony Barthell, USA (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013; teamusa.org, 06 Jun 2013; usspeedskating.org, 31 Jul 2013)
- Other Sports: He competed in inline skating at national level, before switching to speed skating in 2002. (jrcelski.com, 2011)
- Injuries: In December 2011 he suffered a fractured bone and torn ligaments in his left ankle. The injury stopped him competing in individual events at the 2012 World Championships in Shanghai, China. (jrcelski.com, 01 Oct 2013)
In September 2009 he suffered a serious leg injury at the 2010 US Olympic team trials in Marquette, Michigan. Competing in the semifinal of the men's 500m, he fell while rounding a corner and his right skate cut his left leg, missing his femoral artery by an inch. He was treated by paramedics on the ice and transported by ambulance to Marquette General Hospital for surgery. The cut just above his knee was about six inches long and two inches deep. (usatoday.com, 16 Sep 2009; NBC, 21 Jan 2010)
Additional Information
Start of sporting careerHe began inline skating at age three and switched to short track in 2002. (teamusa.org, 21 Jan 2010)
Reason for taking up this sportHe wanted to compete at the Olympic Winter Games. (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013)
AmbitionsTo compete at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. (jrcelski.com, 01 Oct 2013)
Most memorable sporting achievementBreaking the 500m world record at the 2012 World Cup event in Calgary, AB, Canada. (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013)
HeroFilipino boxer Manny Pacquiao. (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013)
Most influential person in careerHis parents, and his former coach Wilma Boomstra. (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013; usspeedskating.org, 31 Jul 2013)
Sporting philosophy / motto"Stay hungry, stay foolish." (Athlete, 10 Feb 2013)
GeneralMUSIC FILM INVOLVEMENT
He is the co-producer for MAD [Music, Art and Dance] Northwest Film Productions. His main project was a documentary on the Seattle hip-hop scene. He took a year off after the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver to film it and worked with artists such as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. "Everybody out there thinks Seattle is just about coffee and rain, and bad sports teams. We want to let people know there's more." (king5.com, 15 Oct 2010; jrcelski.com, 01 Oct 2013; nbcsports.com, 16 Jan 2014)
YOUNG GUN
He missed the minimum age requirement for competing at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin by 17 days. (teamusa.org, 21 Jan 2010)
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