Apollo Ohno‘s remarkable success story includes being the winning-est US Winter Olympic Athlete ever, and as a speedster he has earned dozens of medals in World Cup and Olympic competitions. Ohio was also the United States Olympic Committee’s Male Athlete of the Month in October 2003 and March 2008, the U.S. Speed skating’s Athlete of the Year for 2003, and was a 2002, 2003 and 2006 finalist for the Sullivan Award, which recognizes the best amateur athlete in the United States. Since gaining recognition through his sport, Apolo Ohno has worked as a motivational speaker, commentator, and philanthropist; he even competed on and won the reality TV show Dancing with the Stars.
Apollo Ohno was born in Seattle, Washington, to a Japanese-born father, Yuki Ohno, and a European American mother, Jerrie Lee. Ohno’s parents divorced when he was an infant, and he was raised in Seattle by his father, a popular hairstylist and owner of the hair salon, Yuki’s Diffusion. Raised by his father, Apolo Ohno began training full-time in 1996. He has been the face of short track in the United States since winning his medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics. At the age of 14, he became the youngest U.S. national champion in 1997 and was the reigning champion from 2001–2009, winning the title a total of 12 times. In December 1999, he became the youngest skater to win a World Cup event title, and became the first American to win a World Cup overall title in 2001, which he won again in 2003 and 2005. He won his first overall World Championship title at the 2008 championships.
For the past 10 years, Apolo Ohno has successfully raised funds for a host of businesses has and helped dozens of companies develop strategic partnerships. He brings a unique and distinguished background to Allysian Sciences™, having achieved one-of-a-kind success in the Winter Olympics over the past 12 years, and being recognized the world over as the most decorated American Winter Olympian in history.
Apolo Ohno has been directly responsible for bringing brand awareness and market exposure to a multitude of fortune 400 companies on several projects including: Raytheon, GE, GM, VISA, Ebay, Coca-Cola, Nestle and NBC. He serves as an Ambassador to the development of the Special Olympics in Asia, the World Philanthropy forum and was appointed by Barack Obama as a U.S. Presidential appointee to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in 2011.
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