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Speed skating at the Winter Olympics
Speed skating at the Winter Olympics
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Speed skating has been featured as a sport in the Winter Olympics since the first winter games in 1924. Women's events were added to the Olympic program for the first time in 1960.

History

The governing body for speed skating, the International Skating Union (ISU), was included in the list of recognized federations when the International Olympic Committee was founded, but was first discussed seriously for the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. No speed skating events were contested, although figure skating – also governed by the ISU – was on the programme. The preliminary calendar for the 1916 Summer Olympics, to be held in Berlin, listed a 3-event allround competition,^[1] but these Games were cancelled because of World War I.

The International Winter Sports Week in Chamonix, retro-actively dubbed the 1924 Winter Olympics, contained five speed skating events. Uncommon for the time, it not only included an all-round competition, but also awarded medals for the individual distances: 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10000 m. The all-round event was dropped before the 1928 Games, even though it remained the only World Championship format in the sport until the 1970s; single distance World Championships were not established until 1996.

The 1932 speed skating events were held according to the rules of the American speed skating federation, meaning the skaters competed in small packs of skaters (similar to short track speed skating), instead of the common against-the-clock format. These Games in Lake Placid, New York also saw the first female speed skaters at the Olympics, although their events were only demonstration events. Women's events were also set to be held at the 1940 Winter Olympics,^[1] which were cancelled. After the war, they were withdrawn again until 1960, when the women skated 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and 3000 m.

Following the introduction of World Sprint Championships in the early 1970s, the 1000 m for men was added in Innsbruck 1976, while the women's 5000 m, reinstated by the ISU as an official distance in 1981, made its Olympic debut in 1988. The latest addition to the Olympic speed skating programme is the team pursuit, which was added for the 2006 Turin Games. Its inclusion was remarkable as it had not yet been contested at a senior World Championship in the form skated at the Olympics at the time of inclusion. It is not true that it had not yet been contested at a senior World Championship, the Dutch team won the 2005 title in Inzell, but in that form they only had to skate once and be the fastest, while the Olympic form required three starts.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Haralds Silovs became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Events

The following table shows which events were contested at each Games. Women's events were demonstrated in 1932.

• = official event, (d) = demonstration event

Men's 500 metres

•

22

Men's 1000 metres

•

11

Men's 1500 metres

•

22

Men's 5000 metres

•

22

Men's 10000 metres

•

•^[6]

•

22

Men's all-round

•

Men's team pursuit

•

3

Women's 500 metres

(d)

•

15

Women's 1000 metres

(d)

•

15

Women's 1500 metres

(d)

•

15

Women's 3000 metres

•

15

Women's 5000 metres

•

8

Women's team pursuit

•

3

Total events

5

3

4

8

9

10

12

Medal table

Total		164	167	160	491
1	Netherlands (NED)	31	31	30	92
2	United States (USA)	29	22	16	67
3	Norway (NOR)	25	28	27	80
4	Soviet Union (URS)	24	18	19	61
5	Germany (GER)	13	15	10	38
6	East Germany (GDR)	8	12	9	29
7	Canada (CAN)	8	12	14	34
8	Finland (FIN)	7	8	9	24
9	Sweden (SWE)	7	4	5	16
10	Russia (RUS)	3	4	4	11
11	South Korea (KOR)	4	3	1	8
12	West Germany (FRG)	3	0	0	3
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	1	4
13	Italy (ITA)	2	0	1	3
15	Japan (JPN)	1	5	9	15
16	Austria (AUT)	1	2	3	6
17	United Team of Germany (EUA)	1	1	0	2
18	China (CHN)	0	3	3	6
19	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
20	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
20	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
22	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
22	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1

Updated during the 2014 Winter Olympics.12-02-2014

Number of speed skaters by country

= Countries that did not participate in the Olympic Winter Games in that year, or didn't exist at the time.

Belarus (BLR)																	2	4	5	1	1
Czechoslovakia (TCH)				2	1		3		2						1	2							6
Czech Republic (CZE)																			1	1	2	4	4
Estonia (EST)		2		1																			2
Germany (GER)		3		2		1										14	15	14	13	13	13	14	10
United Team of Germany (EUA)							4	12	13														3
East Germany (GDR)										1	2	9	9	10	11								6
West Germany (FRG)										9	7	3	4	7	5								6
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																	8	7	8	4	5	6	6
North Korea (PRK)									9		6			6	4	5		2			1		7
South Korea (KOR)					3		4	5	4	2	4	2	5	6	6	5	9	13	12	14	16	15	17
Latvia (LAT)	1	1		3													1	1	1		1	1	8
Lithuania (LTU)		1																					1
Russia (RUS)																	12	18	13	19	17	20	6
Soviet Union (URS)							12	16	18	18	9	16	16	17	17								9
Unified Team (EUN)																19							1
Ukraine (UKR)																	2	4	2				3

Countries	10	14	6	16	15	14	18	17	22	19	18	19	20	24	21	23	21	25	23	19	24	23	22
Speed skaters	31	40	31	52	68	67	88	103	137	137	118	122	127	139	142	155	151	171	166	175	180	179	22

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b Kluge 1995, page ?.
^ "Latvia's quick-change artist makes Olympic history". Toronto Star. 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
^ Harris, Beth (2010-02-13). "Latvian speedskater is 1st to do double duty". Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-02-19. ^{[dead link‍]}
^ CTV Olympics, "Latvian skater makes Olympic history", Agence France Press, 14 February 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
^ New York Times, "Crosstown Ride to a Speedskating First", Associated Press, 30 January 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
^ The 10000 m event at the 1928 games had to be cancelled due to poor ice conditions.

Bibliography

Kluge, Volker. Olympische Winterspiele: Die Chronik - Chamonix 1924 - Lillehammer 1994. Berlin, Germany: Sportverlag, 2nd revised and updated edition, 1994. ISBN 3-328-00631-1

[Kluge_1994,_page-1] Kluge 1995, page ?.

[star-2] "Latvia's quick-change artist makes Olympic history". Toronto Star. 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2010-02-18.

[post-3] Harris, Beth (2010-02-13). "Latvian speedskater is 1st to do double duty". Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-02-19. ^{[dead link‍]}

[4] CTV Olympics, "Latvian skater makes Olympic history", Agence France Press, 14 February 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2010.

[5] New York Times, "Crosstown Ride to a Speedskating First", Associated Press, 30 January 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2010.

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