John-Henry Krueger (born March 27, 1995) is an American-born, naturalised Hungarian that has represented both countries in his sporting events in short track speed skating.

He left U.S. Speedskating after a history of tensions for the stated reason of unmet financial need, switching his allegiance to Hungary in 2018 in time to qualify for Olympic participation in 2022.

[not verified in body] He is competing for Hungary in the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, where as of February 11, he had earned a bronze medal in the 2000-meter mixed relay.

[7][1] Cole, about three years older than his brother,[7] struggled at a national competition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (John-Henry being about age 7 at the time), and their mother sought the advice of Olympian Eric Flaim and began commuting with her sons a few times a week to Washington, D.C. for short-track speed skating coaching, in particular, from Korean coach Jimmy Jang.

[9] By 2017 he was being described as one of the "top short-track speedskaters",[10] and in November 2017, the U.S. team of Keith Carroll, Jr., J.R. Celski, Thomas Hong, and Krueger, competing in Shanghai at a World Cup event, set a short track speed skating world record for the 5,000-meter relay of 6:29.052, a full second faster than the previous record of Canada set in 2012 in Calgary.

[clarification needed][2][better source needed][9] On the advice of coach Jae Su Chun,[13] after a brief return home at Christmastime in 2017, Krueger joined the National Short Track Training Selection program in Heerenveen in the Netherlands, under the leadership of Dutch national coach Jeroen Otter, for the six week run up to the 2018 games[12][13] (for the experience of "skat[ing] with a Dutch team"[9]).

[3] At the end of April 2018, after his medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, John-Henry Krueger announced his intent to formally seek release from U.S. Speedskating and the USOC, and to accept an offer to reside and skate in future for the nation of Hungary.

[1] En route to qualifying for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, Krueger earned silver medals for Hungary at the European Championships in Gdansk in the 1,000-meter men's individual event,[when?

][citation needed] He is competing for Hungary in the 2022 Games in Beijing under national team coach Akos Banhidi,[1] where as of February 11, he had earned a bronze medal in the 2000-meter mixed relay.

[1][better source needed] Multiple reports confirm a longstanding contentious relationship existed between U.S. Speedskating and the Kruegers—him, his brother Cole, and their parents—a rift that was broadly perceived in competitive skating circles.

[3] Citing earlier reporting from The Wall Street Journal,[16] Rick Maese of the Washington Post catalogs a conflict dating back "several years", leading first to the 2016 departure by older brother Cole;[3][15][4] issues included the organisation's role in the 2012 departure of U.S. national team coach Jae Su Chun (a coach that the Krueger brothers would both choose to follow);[3][13] its requirement that the skaters represent the organisation's chosen sponsors (rather than seeking their own sponsors); a conflict over the organisation's athlete agreement; and its later "threa[t] to withhold a monthly stipend" for Krueger's "declin[ing] to wear a heart-rate monitor and share the data with U.S.

[3] In Olympic competition, it is not unheard of for athletes of one nation to compete for another, but known U.S. examples are "usually because they [don’t] qualify for the U.S. team," with the case of Olympians medaling earlier that change citizenship being rare.

"[9] See above—in Further reading, and in the References—for the athlete profiles provided by Krueger and his national skating bodies in the U.S. and Hungary, to the IOC, for presentation in the web materials for the 2018 and 2022 Olympics.