Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	M-Wave
Dates	February 8-20
Competitors	169 from 25 nations

For the short track speed skating events, see Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, was held from 8 February to 20 February. Ten events were contested at M-Wave.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Total	10	10	10	30

The Netherlands dominated the Nagano speed skating events, winning five gold medals and eleven medals overall, their highest total in any Winter games, as of 2010. 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.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan (JPN)	1:11.35	Jeremy Wotherspoon Canada (CAN)	1:11.84	Kevin Overland Canada (CAN)	1:11.86
1000 metres	Ids Postma Netherlands (NED)	1:10.64	Jan Bos Netherlands (NED)	1:10.71	Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan (JPN)	1:11.00
1500 metres	Ådne Søndrål Norway (NOR)	1:47.87	Ids Postma Netherlands (NED)	1:48.13	Rintje Ritsma Netherlands (NED)	1:48.52
5000 metres	Gianni Romme Netherlands (NED)	6:22.20	Rintje Ritsma Netherlands (NED)	6:28.24	Bart Veldkamp Belgium (BEL)	6:28.31
10000 metres	Gianni Romme Netherlands (NED)	13:15.33	Bob de Jong Netherlands (NED)	13:25.76	Rintje Ritsma Netherlands (NED)	13:28.19

Women's events

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

Records

Five world records and twelve Olympic records were set in Nagano.^[2][3]

Event	Date	Team	Time	OR	WR
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

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

References

Sports-Reference 1998 Olympics - Speed Skating

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