Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Speed skating

at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games

Venue| M-Wave
Dates| 8–20 February 1998
No. of events| 10
Competitors| 169 from 25 nations

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Speed skating at the
1998 Winter Olympics

500 m| men| women
1000 m| men| women
1500 m| men| women
3000 m| | women
5000 m| men| women
10,000 m| men|

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Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, was held from 8 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at M-Wave.[1][2] The Netherlands dominated the Nagano speed skating events, winning five gold medals and eleven medals overall, their highest total in any Winter games up until that point. Bart Veldkamp's bronze medal was the first in speed skating for Belgium, and the first at the Winter Games for the country in 50 years. Lyudmila Prokasheva's bronze medal for Kazakhstan was that country's first in the sport as well, and Prokasheva became the first woman from Kazakhstan to earn an Olympic medal.

Gianni Romme and Marianne Timmer led the individual medal tables, with two gold each.

## Medal summary

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### Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Netherlands (NED)| 5| 4| 2| 11
2|  Germany (GER)| 2| 3| 1| 6
3|  Canada (CAN)| 1| 2| 2| 5
4|  Japan (JPN)| 1| 0| 2| 3
5|  Norway (NOR)| 1| 0| 0| 1
6|  United States (USA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
7|  Belgium (BEL)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (8 entries)| 10| 10| 10| 30

### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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500 metres
details | Hiroyasu Shimizu
Japan | 1:11.35  | Jeremy Wotherspoon
Canada | 1:11.84  | Kevin Overland
Canada | 1:11.86
1000 metres
details | Ids Postma
Netherlands | 1:10.64
(OR) | Jan Bos
Netherlands | 1:10.71  | Hiroyasu Shimizu
Japan | 1:11.00
1500 metres
details | Ådne Søndrål
Norway | 1:47.87
WR | Ids Postma
Netherlands | 1:48.13  | Rintje Ritsma
Netherlands | 1:48.52
5000 metres
details | Gianni Romme
Netherlands | 6:22.20
WR | Rintje Ritsma
Netherlands | 6:28.24  | Bart Veldkamp
Belgium | 6:28.31
10,000 metres
details | Gianni Romme
Netherlands | 13:15.33
WR | Bob de Jong
Netherlands | 13:25.76  | Rintje Ritsma
Netherlands | 13:28.19

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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500 metres
details | Catriona Le May Doan
Canada | 1:16.60  | Susan Auch
Canada | 1:16.93  | Tomomi Okazaki
Japan | 1:17.10
1000 metres
details | Marianne Timmer
Netherlands | 1:16.51
(OR) | Chris Witty
United States | 1:16.79  | Catriona Le May Doan
Canada | 1:17.37
1500 metres
details | Marianne Timmer
Netherlands | 1:57.58 WR | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
Germany | 1:58.66  | Chris Witty
United States | 1:58.97
3000 metres
details | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
Germany | 4:07.29
(OR) | Claudia Pechstein
Germany | 4:08.47  | Anni Friesinger-Postma
Germany | 4:09.44
5000 metres
details | Claudia Pechstein
Germany | 6:59.61 WR | Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
Germany | 6:59.65  | Lyudmila Prokasheva
Kazakhstan | 7:11.14

## Records

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Five world records and twelve Olympic records were set in Nagano.[3][4]

Event | Date | Team | Time | OR | WR

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Men's 500 metres | 9 February |  Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) | 35.76 | OR |
11 February |  Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) | 35.59 | OR |
Men's 1000 metres | 15 February |  Ids Postma (NED) | 1:10.64 | OR |
Men's 1500 metres | 12 February |  Ådne Søndrål (NOR) | 1:47.87 | OR | WR
Men's 5000 metres | 8 February |  Gianni Romme (NED) | 6:22.20 | OR | WR
Men's 10000 metres | 17 February |  Gianni Romme (NED) | 13:15.33 | OR | WR
Women's 500 metres | 13 February |  Catriona Le May Doan (CAN) | 38.39 | OR |
14 February |  Catriona Le May Doan (CAN) | 38.21 | OR |
Women's 1000 metres | 19 February |  Marianne Timmer (NED) | 1:16.51 | OR |
Women's 1500 metres | 16 February |  Marianne Timmer (NED) | 1:57.58 | OR | WR
Women's 3000 metres | 11 February |  Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (GER) | 4:07.29 | OR |
Women's 5000 metres | 20 February |  Claudia Pechstein (GER) | 6:59.61 | OR | WR

## Participating NOCs

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Twenty-five nations competed in the speed skating events at Nagano. New Zealand and Portugal made their Olympic speed skating debuts.

* Austria (4)
* Belarus (4)
* Belgium (1)
* Canada (17)
* China (12)
* Finland (1)
* France (1)
* Germany (13)
* Hungary (2)
* Italy (4)
* Japan (17)
* Kazakhstan (7)
* South Korea (13)
* Latvia (1)
* Netherlands (16)
* Norway (10)
* New Zealand (1)
* Poland (3)
* Portugal (1)
* North Korea (2)
* Romania (2)
* Russia (18)
* Switzerland (1)
* Ukraine (4)
* United States (14)

## References

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1. ^ "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
2. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
3. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
4. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

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Events at the 1998 Winter Olympics (Nagano)

* Alpine skiing
* Biathlon
* Bobsleigh
* Cross-country skiing
* Curling
* Figure skating
* Freestyle skiing
* Ice hockey
* Luge
* Nordic combined
* Short-track speed skating
* Ski jumping
* Snowboarding
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