Nuis is a three-time Olympic champion, having won Olympic gold in both the
1000 and
1500 meters at the
2018 Winter Olympics. He won another gold in the
1500 meters four years later, improving Derek Parra's twenty-year-old Olympic record to 1:43.21 in the process. He is also a two-time world single-distance champion over 1000 and 1500 meters. He is a multi-time world single distance medalist over 1000 and 1500 meters, a four-time season overall World Cup winner of the 1000 meters distance, and a two-time winner over 1500 meters. On 10 March 2019, he set the world record for the 1500-meter event to 1:40.17 in the
Utah Olympic Oval during the
finals of the 2018–19 World Cup tour. A day earlier, in the same event, he also improved the 1000 meters world record to 1:06.18, which stood until it was broken by
Pavel Kulizhnikov on 15 February 2020. In
Savalen, Norway on 17 March 2022, he set a new world speed skating record of 103 kilometers per hour, beating his previous 4-year-old record by 10 km/h. At the
2026 Winter Olympics, Nuis won bronze in the
1500 m, becoming the first male speed skater to medal in the 1500 meters at three different Winter Olympics. ==Personal life==