List of speed skaters

The following is a list of notable ice speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline (long track or short track), gender and competing nationality.

Contents 1 Long track 1.1 Male 1.1.1 American 1.1.2 Australian 1.1.3 Austrian 1.1.4 Belarusian 1.1.5 British 1.1.6 Canadian 1.1.7 Colombian 1.1.8 Czech 1.1.9 Dutch 1.1.10 Finnish 1.1.11 French 1.1.12 German 1.1.12.1 DDR (East German) 1.1.12.2 BRD (West German) 1.1.13 Japanese 1.1.14 Korean 1.1.14.1 DPRK (North Korean) 1.1.14.2 ROK (South Korean) 1.1.15 Italian 1.1.16 Kazakh 1.1.17 Mexican 1.1.18 Norwegian 1.1.19 Russian 1.1.20 Soviet 1.1.21 Swedish 1.1.22 Swiss 1.2 Female 1.2.1 American 1.2.2 Austrian 1.2.3 Canadian 1.2.4 Czech 1.2.5 Danish 1.2.6 Dutch 1.2.7 Finnish 1.2.8 German 1.2.8.1 DDR (East German) 1.2.8.2 BRD (West German) 1.2.9 Japanese 1.2.10 Norwegian 1.2.11 Russian 1.2.12 Soviet 1.2.13 Swedish 1.2.14 Swiss 2 Short track 2.1 Male 2.1.1 American 2.1.2 Australian 2.1.3 British 2.1.4 Canadian 2.1.5 Chinese 2.1.6 Dutch 2.1.7 Korean 2.1.7.1 ROK (South Korean) 2.1.8 New Zealand 2.2 Female 2.2.1 American 2.2.2 Bulgarian 2.2.3 Canadian 2.2.4 Chinese 2.2.5 Korean 2.2.5.1 DPRK (North Korean) 2.2.5.2 ROK (South Korean)

Long track

Male

American

• KC Boutiette
• Kip Carpenter
• Joey Cheek
• Shani Davis
• John Farrell
• Casey FitzRandolph
• Eric Flaim
• Tucker Fredricks
• David Cruikshank
• Chad Hedrick
• Eric Heiden
• Ken Henry
• Irving Jaffee
• Dan Jansen
• Charles Jewtraw
• Terry McDermott
• Peter Mueller
• Derek Parra
• Tom Plant
• Jack Shea
• Nick Thometz
• Patrick Meek
• Trevor Marsicano
• Mike Blumel
• John Loquai
• Charles Ryan Leveille
• Jonathan Kuck
• Ryan Bedford
• Andy Roesch
• Andrew Astalos

Australian

• Colin Coates
• Colin Hickey
• Danny Kah
• Kenneth Kennedy
• Michael Richmond
• Phillip Tahmindjis
• Michael Everret Hearn (speed skater)

Austrian

• Roland Brunner
• Christian Eminger
• Michael Hadschieff
• Werner Jäger
• Heinz Steinberger

Belarusian

• Igor Zhelezovski (also competed for Soviet Union)

British

• Bryan Carbis
• Wilf O'Reilly

Canadian

• Andrew Barron
• Gaétan Boucher
• Sylvain Bouchard
• Arne Dankers
• Steven Elm
• Mike Ireland
• Patrick Kelly
• Neal Marshall
• Dustin Molicki
• Denny Morrison
• Jason Parker
• Kevin Scott
• Justin Warsylewicz
• Jeremy Wotherspoon
• Jordan Belchos

Colombian

• Jay Ramirez

Czech

• Milan Sáblík

Dutch

• Henk Angenent
• Jan Bazen
• Jelmer Beulenkamp
• Jan Blokhuijsen
• Lieuwe de Boer
• Jan Bols
• Jan Bos
• Thomas Bos
• Kees Broekman
• Ben van der Burg
• Hilbert van der Duim
• Jaap Eden
• Henk van der Grift
• Stefan Groothuis
• Hans van Helden (also competed for France)
• Martin Hersman
• Bob de Jong
• Jorrit Jorritsma
• Gerard Kemkers
• Piet Kleine
• Coen de Koning
• Sven Kramer
• Yep Kramer
• Harm Kuipers
• Simon Kuipers
• Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
• Rudie Liebrechts
• Ronald Mulder
• Beorn Nijenhuis
• Wouter Olde Heuvel
• Tom Prinsen
• Ids Postma
• Rintje Ritsma
• Gianni Romme
• Ard Schenk
• Jan Smeekens
• Mark Tuitert
• Jochem Uytdehaage
• Gerard van Velde
• Bart Veldkamp (also competed for Belgium)
• Hein Vergeer
• Carl Verheijen
• Kees Verkerk
• Leo Visser
• Erben Wennemars
• Jan Ykema
• Falko Zandstra

Finnish

• Janne Hänninen
• Harri Ilkka
• Juhani Järvinen
• Timo Järvinen
• Jaana Kivipelto
• Pasi Koskela
• Pekka Koskela
• Kimmo Koskinen
• Johanna Laine
• Jouko Launonen
• Pertti Niittylä
• Urpo Pikkupeura
• Mika Poutala
• Esa Puolakka
• Marja Repola
• Risto Rosendahl
• Vesa Rosendahl
• Jukka Salmela
• Toivo Salonen
• Julius Skutnabb
• Clas Thunberg
• Jarmo Valtonen
• Jouko Vesterlund

French

• Alexis Contin
• Jean-Noël Fagot
• Hans van Helden (also competed for the Netherlands)
• Thierry Lamberton
• Emmanuel Michon
• Claude Nicouleau

German

• Jens Boden
• Frank Dittrich (also competed for DDR)
• Uwe-Jens Mey (also competed for DDR)
• Olaf Zinke (also competed for DDR)

DDR (East German)

• Andreas Ehrig
• André Hoffmann
• Uwe-Jens Mey

BRD (West German)

• Erhard Keller
• Gerhard Zimmermann

Japanese

• Toru Aoyanagi
• Manabu Horii
• Junichi Inoue
• Joji Kato
• Yoshihiro Kitazawa
• Akira Kuroiwa
• Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
• Yukihiro Mitani
• Yasunori Miyabe
• Yukinori Miyabe
• Hiroyuki Noake
• Keiji Shirahata
• Hiroyasu Shimizu
• Keiichi Suzuki

Korean

DPRK (North Korean)

ROK (South Korean)

• Lee Kang-Seok
• Lee Kyu Hyuk
• Mo Tae-Bum
• Lee Seung Hoon

Italian

• Enrico Fabris
• Dino Gillarduzzi
• Ermanno Ioriatti
• Maurizio Marchetto
• Giorgio Paganin
• Ippolito Sanfratello
• Roberto Sighel

Kazakh

• Vadim Sayutin (also competed for Russia)

Mexican

• Eric Kraan

Norwegian

• Nils Aaness
• Roald Aas
• Hjalmar Andersen
• Petter Andersen
• Terje Andersen
• Ivar Ballangrud
• Håvard Bøkko
• Thomas Byberg
• Armand Carlsen
• Jørn Didriksen
• Lasse Efskind
• Kai Arne Engelstad
• Ivar Eriksen
• Eskil Ervik
• Bernt Evensen
• Rolf Falk-Larssen
• Sverre Farstad
• Dag Fornæss
• Alv Gjestvang
• Øystein Grødum
• Roar Grønvold
• Rudolf Gundersen
• Per Willy Guttormsen
• Villy Haugen
• Sverre Ingolf Haugli
• Finn Helgesen
• Knut Johannesen
• Arne Johansen
• Geir Karlstad
• Johann Olav Koss
• Roald Larsen
• Reidar Liaklev
• Odd Lundberg
• Fred Anton Maier
• Charles Mathiesen
• Oscar Mathisen
• Per Ivar Moe
• Alfred Ingvald Næss
• Peder Østlund
• Tom Erik Oxholm
• Frode Rønning
• Lasse Sætre
• Amund Sjøbrend
• Ådne Søndrål
• Michael Staksrud
• Sten Stensen
• Kay Arne Stenshjemmet
• Rune Stordal
• Kjell Storelid
• Jan Egil Storholt
• Harald Strøm
• Kristian Strøm
• Roger Strøm
• Arnulf Sunde
• Magne Thomassen
• Erik Vea
• Even Wetten

Russian

• Andrey Bakhvalov (also competed for Soviet Union)
• Dmitry Dorofeyev
• Aleksandr Golubev (also competed for Soviet Union)
• Dmitry Lobkov
• Anatoly Medennikov
• Dmitry Shepel
• Ivan Skobrev

Soviet

• Ants Antson
• Vladimir Belov
• Andrey Bobrov
• Dmitry Bochkaryov
• Oleg Bozhev
• Sergey Fokichev
• Oleg Goncharenko
• Yevgeny Grishin
• Nikolay Gulyayev
• Vasily Ippolitov
• Sergey Klevchenya
• Sergey Khlebnikov
• Viktor Kosichkin
• Yevgeny Kulikov
• Vladimir Lobanov
• Viktor Lyoskin
• Igor Malkov
• Sergey Marchuk
• Eduard Matusevich
• Yuri Mikhaylov
• Valery Muratov
• Dmitry Ogloblin
• Pavel Pegov
• Dimitry Sakunenko
• Viktor Shasherin
• Boris Shilkov
• Vladimir Shilykovsky
• Boris Stenin
• Nikolay Strunnikov

Swedish

• Per Bengtsson
• Göran Claeson
• Sigvard Ericsson
• Tomas Gustafson
• Johnny Höglin
• Hans Markström
• Ivar Nilsson
• Jonny Nilsson
• Mauritz Öholm
• Johan Röjler
• Örjan Sandler
• Jonas Schön
• Åke Seyffarth
• Mats Wallberg

Swiss

• Franz Krienbühl
• Roger Schneider

Female

American

• Chantal Bailey
• Bonnie Blair
• Rebekah Bradford
• Anne Bruckner
• Beth Heiden
• Anne Henning
• Dianne Holum
• Kit Klein
• Maria Lamb
• Leah Poulos
• Jennifer Rodriguez
• Chris Witty
• Sheila Young
• Ellie Ochowicz
• Mia Manganello
• Ericka Hawke
• Catherine Raney
• Heather Richardson
• Anna Ringsgred
• Jessica Smith
• Nancy Swider
• Christine Witty

Austrian

• Emese Antal (born in Romania)
• Emese Hunyady (also competed for Hungary)

Canadian

• Susan Auch
• Lela Brooks
• Sylvia Burka
• Sylvie Daigle
• Kristina Groves
• Clara Hughes
• Cindy Klassen
• Catriona LeMay Doan
• Christine Nesbitt
• Shannon Rempel

Czech

• Martina Sáblíková

Danish

• Cathrine Grage

Dutch

• Margot Boer
• Annie Borckink
• Wieteke Cramer
• Paulien van Deutekom
• Carry Geijssen
• Yvonne van Gennip
• Annette Gerritsen
• Renate Groenewold
• Tonny de Jong
• Stien Kaiser
• Atje Keulen-Deelstra
• Marrit Leenstra
• Barbara de Loor
• Laurine van Riessen
• Ans Schut
• Gretha Smit
• Marianne Timmer
• Diane Valkenburg
• Renske Vellinga
• Ria Visser
• Elma de Vries
• Ireen Wüst

Finnish

• Kaija Mustonen

German

• Daniela Anschütz
• Stephanie Beckert
• Jacqueline Börner (also competed for DDR)
• Anni Friesinger
• Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (also competed for DDR)
• Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (also competed for DDR)
• Claudia Pechstein (also competed for DDR)
• Christa Rothenburger (also competed for DDR)
• Franziska Schenk (also competed for DDR)
• Sabine Völker (also competed for DDR)
• Jenny Wolf

DDR (East German)

• Karin Enke
• Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich
• Helga Haase
• Constanze Moser-Scandolo
• Gabi Zange

BRD (West German)

• Monika Pflug

Japanese

• Seiko Hashimoto
• Tomomi Okazaki
• Miho Takagi

Norwegian

• Hege Bøkko
• Maren Haugli
• Edel Therese Høiseth
• Bjørg Eva Jensen
• Synnøve Lie
• Laila Schou Nilsen

Russian

• Svetlana Bazhanova
• Svetlana Zhurova

Soviet

• Inga Artamonova
• Tatyana Averina
• Vera Bryndzei
• Maria Isakova
• Natalya Petrusyova
• Tamara Rylova
• Lidia Skoblikova
• Nina Statkevich
• Valentina Stenina
• Galina Stepanskaya
• Lyudmila Titova
• Rimma Zhukova

Swedish

• Jasmin Krohn

Swiss

• Sylvia Brunner

Short track

Male

American

• Apolo Anton Ohno
• JR Celski
• Dan Weinstein
• Anthony Lobello Jr
• Jordan Malone
• Simon Cho
• Rusty Smith
• Alex Izykowski
• Ryan Bedford
• Travis Jayner
• J. P. Kepka
• Kyle Carr
• Anthony Griffay
• Joey Lindsey
• Johnathen Sermeno
• John Henry Krueger
• Cole Krueger
• Walter Rusk
• Ansis Robs
• Kyle Uyehara
• Levi Kirkpatrick
• Barry Winslow
• David Lisi
• Pat Maxwell
• Bill Lanigan
• Barth Levy
• Charles King
• Keith King
• Bob Fenn

Australian

• Steven Bradbury

British

• Wilf O'Reilly

Canadian

• Eric Bedard
• Gaétan Boucher
• Marc Gagnon
• Charles Hamelin
• François Hamelin
• François-Louis Tremblay
• Mathieu Turcotte
• Guillaume Bastille
• Olivier Jean

Chinese

• Li Jiajun

Dutch

• Lieuwe de Boer

Korean

ROK (South Korean)

• Ahn Hyun Soo
• Chae Ji-Hoon
• Kim Dong-Sung
• Kim Ki-hoon
• Lee Ho-Suk
• Seo Ho-Jin
• Song Suk-Woo
• Kwak Yoon-Gy
• Sung Si-Bak
• Lee Jung-Su

New Zealand

• Mike McMillen
• Andrew Nicholson
• Chris Nicholson
• Tony Smith
• Matt Fuller (Current NZ Champ)
• Blake Skjellerup

Female

American

• Katherine Reutter
• Allison Baver
• Kimberly Derrick
• Hyo-Jung Kim
• Jessica Smith
• Alexis Burkholder
• Cherise Wilkins
• Sonia Milan
• Carly Wilson
• Tina Koenig
• Mary Grace
• Lana Gehring
• Alyson Dudek
• Cathy Turner

Bulgarian

• Evgenia Radanova

Canadian

• Susan Auch
• Sylvie Daigle
• Anouk Leblanc-Boucher
• Amanda Overland
• Kalyna Roberge
• Tania Vicent
• Alanna Kraus
• Marianne St-Gelais

Chinese

• Wang Meng
• Yang Yang (A)
• Yang Yang (S)

Korean

DPRK (North Korean)

• Ri Hyang-mi

ROK (South Korean)

• Chun Lee-kyung
• Jin Sun-Yu
• Ko Gi-hyun
• Noh Ah-Reum