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History Men's 500-Meter Men's 1000-Meter Men's 1500-Meter Men's 5-Kilometer Men's 10-Kilometer Men's Team Pursuit Men's All-Around	Women's 500-Meter Women's 1000-Meter Women's 1500-Meter Women's 3-Kilometer Women's 5-Kilometer Women's Team Pursuit Other Resources

History

Traditional speed skating is conducted on a 400-meter track against the clock. Although there are two racers on the course simultaneously, they're not really competing against one another. The finishing time is the deciding factor.

Since 1998, the 500-meter has been decided by the aggregate time in two trials. In all other races, there's a single time trial.

Three women's races were held as demonstration events in 1932, but women's speed skating didn't become a medal sport until 1960.

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Men's 500-Meter

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1924	Charles Jewtraw, USA	44.0	Oskar Olsen, NOR	44.2	Roald Larsen, NOR & Clas Thunberg, FIN	44.8
1928	Bernt Evensen, NOR & Clas Thunberg, FIN	43.4			John O'Neil Farrell, USA, Jaako Friman, FIN & Roald Larsen, NOR	43.6
1932	John Shea, USA	43.4	Bernt Evensen, NOR	---	Alexander Hurd, CAN	---
1936	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	43.4	Georg Krog, NOR	43.5	Leo Freisinger, USA	44.0
1948	Finn Helgesen, NOR	43.1	Kenneth Bartholomew, USA, Thomas Byberg, NOR & Robert Fitzgerald, USA	43.2
1952	Kenneth Henry, USA	43.2	Donald McDermott, USA	43.9	Gordon Audley, CAN & Arne Johansen, NOR	44.0
1956	Yevgeniy Grishin, URS	40.2	Rafael Gratch, URS	40.8	Alv Gjestvang, NOR	41.0
1960	Yevgeniy Grishin, URS	40.2	William Disney, USA	40.3	Rafael Gratch, URS	40.4
1964	Richard “Terry” McDermott, USA	40.1	Alv Gjestvang, NOR, Yevgeniy Grishin, URS & Vladimir Orlov, URS	40.6
1968	Erhard Keller, FRG	40.3	Richard “Terry” McDermott, USA & Magne Thomassen, NOR	40.5
1972	Erhard Keller, FRG	39.44	Hasse Börjes, SWE	39.69	Valeriy Muratov, URS	39.80
1976	Yevgeniy Kulikov, URS	39.17	Valeriy Muratov, URS	39.25	Daniel Immerfall, USA	39.54
1980	Eric Heiden, USA	38.03	Yevgeniy Kulikov, URS	38.37	Lieuwe de Boer, NED	38.48
1984	Sergey Fokichev, URS	38.19	Yoshihiro Kitazawa, JPN	38.30	Gaétan Boucher, CAN	38.39
1988	Uwe-Jens Mey, GDR	36.45	Jan Ykema, NED	36.76	Akira Kuroiwa, JPN	36.77
1992	Uwe-Jens Mey, GER	37.14	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa, JPN	37.18	Junichi Inoue, JPN	37.26
1994	Aleksandr Golubev, RUS	36.33	Sergey Klevchenya, RUS	36.39	Manabu Horii, JPN	36.53
1998	Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN	1:11.35	Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN	1:11.84	Kevin Overland, CAN	1:11.86
2002	Casey FitzRandolph, USA	1:09:23	Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN	1:09.26	Kip Carpenter, USA	1:09.47
2006	Joey Cheek, USA	1:09.76	Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS	1:10.41	Lee Kang Seok, KOR	1:10.43

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Men's 1000-Meter

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1976	Peter Mueller, USA	1:19.32	Jørn Didriksen, NOR	1:20.45	Valeriy Muratov, URS	1:20.57
1980	Eric Heiden, USA	1:15.18	Gaétan Boucher, CAN	1:16.68	Vladimir Lobanov, URS & Frode Rønning, NOR	1:16.91
1984	Gaétan Boucher, CAN	1:15.80	Sergey Khlebnikov, URS	1:16.63	Kai Arne Engelstad, NOR	1:16.75
1988	Nikolay Gulyaev, URS	1:13.03	Uwe-Jens Mey, GDR	1:13.11	Igor Zhelezovsky, URS	1:13.19
1992	Olaf Zinke, GER	1:14.85	Kim Yoon-Man, KOR	1:14.86	Yukinori Miyabe, JPN	1:14.92
1994	Dan Jansen, USA	1:12.43	Igor Zhelezovsky, BLR	1:12.72	Sergey Klevchenya, RUS	1:12.85
1998	Ids Postma, NED	1:10.64	Jan Bos, NED	1:10.71	Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN	1:11.00
2002	Gerard van Velde, NED	1:07.18	Jan Bos, NED	1:07.53	Joey Cheek, USA	1:07.61
2006	Shani Davis, USA	1:08.89	Joey Cheek, USA	1:09.16	Erben Wennemars, NED	1:09.32

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Men's 1500-Meter

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1924	Clas Thunberg, FIN	2:20.8	Roald Larsen, NOR	2:22.0	Sigurd Moen, NOR	2:25.6
1928	Clas Thunberg, FIN	2:21.1	Bernt Evensen, NOR	2:21.9	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	2:22.6
1932	John Shea, USA	2:57.5	Alexander Hurd, CAN	---	William Logan, CAN	---
1936	Charles Mathisen, NOR	2:19.2	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	2:20.2	Birger Wasenius, FIN	2:20.9
1948	Sverre Farstad, NOR	2:17.6	Åke Seyffarth, SWE	2:18.1	Odd Lundberg, NOR	2:18.9
1952	Hjalmar Andersen, NOR	2:20.4	Willem van der Voort, NED	2:20.6	Roald Aas, NOR	2:21.6
1956	Yevgeniy Grishin, URS & Yuriy Mikhailov, URS	2:08.6			Toivo Salonen, FIN	2:09.4
1960	Roald Aas, NOR & Yevgeniy Grishin, URS	2:10.4			Boris Stenin, URS	2:11.5
1964	Ants Antson, URS	2:10.3	Kees Verkerk, NED	2:10.6	Willy Haugen, NOR	2:11.2
1968	Kees Verkerk, NED	2:03.4	Ivar Eriksen, NOR & Ard Schenk, NED	2:05.0
1972	Ard Schenk, NED	2:02.96	Roar Grønvold, NOR	2:04.26	Göran Claesson, SWE	2:05.89
1976	Jan Egil Storholt, NOR	1:59.38	Yuriy Kondakov, URS	1:59.97	Hans van Helden, NED	2:00.87
1980	Eric Heiden, USA	1:55.44	Kay Arne Stenshjemmet, NOR	1:56.81	Terje Andersen, NOR	1:56.92
1984	Gaétan Boucher, CAN	1:58.36	Sergey Khlebnikov, URS	1:58.83	Oleg Bozhyev, URS	1:58.89
1988	André Hoffmann, GDR	1:52.06	Eric Flaim, USA	1:52.12	Michael Hadschieff, AUT	1:52.31
1992	Johan Olav Koss, NOR	1:54.81	Ådne Søndrål, NOR	1:54.85	Leo Visser, NED	1:54.90
1994	Johan Olav Koss, NOR	1:51.29	Rintje Ritsma, NED	1:51.99	Falko Zandstra, NED	1:52.38
1998	Ådne Søndrål, NOR	1:47.87	Ids Postma, NED	1:48.13	Rintje Ritsma, NED	1:48.52
2002	Derek Parra, USA	1:43.95	Jochem Uytdehaage, NED	1:44.57	Ådne Søndrål, NOR	1:45.26
2006	Enrico Fabris, ITA	1:45.97	Shani Davis, USA	1:46.13	Chad Hedrick, USA	1:46.22

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Men's 5-Kilometer

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1924	Clas Thunberg, FIN	8:39.0	Julius Skutnabb, FIN	8:48.4	Roald Larsen, NOR	8:50.2
1928	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	8:50.5	Julius Skutnabb, FIN	8:59.1	Bernt Evensen, NOR	9:01.1
1932	Irving Jaffee, USA	9:40.8	Edward Murphy, USA	---	William Logan, CAN	---
1936	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	8:19.6	Birger Wasenius, FIN	8:23.3	Antero Ojala, FIN	8:30.1
1948	Reidar Liaklev, NOR	8:29.4	Odd Lundberg, NOR	8:32.7	Göthe Hedlund, SWE	8:34.8
1952	Hjalmar Andersen, NOR	8:10.6	Kees Broekman, NED	8:21.6	Sverre Haugli, NOR	8:22.4
1956	Boris Shilkov, URS	7:48.7	Sigvard Ericsson, SWE	7:56.7	Oleg Goncharenko, URS	7:57.5
1960	Viktor Kosichkin, URS	7:51.3	Knut Johannesen, NOR	8:00.8	Jan Pesman, NED	8:05.1
1964	Knut Johannesen, NOR	7:38.4	Per Ivar Moe, NOR	7:38.6	Fred Anton Maier, NOR	7:42.0
1968	Fred Anton Maier, NOR	7:22.4	Kees Verkerk, NED	7:23.2	Petrus Nottet, NED	7:25.5
1972	Ard Schenk, NED	7:23.61	Roar Grønvold, NOR	7:28.18	Sten Stensen, NOR	7:33.39
1976	Sten Stensen, NOR	7:24.48	Piet Kleine, NED	7:26.47	Hans van Helden, NED	7:26.54
1980	Eric Heiden, USA	7:02.29	Kay Arne Stenshjemmet, NOR	7:03.28	Tom Erik Oxholm, NOR	7:05.59
1984	Tomas Gustafson, SWE	7:12.28	Igor Malkov, URS	7:12.30	René Schöfisch, GDR	7:17.49
1988	Tomas Gustafson, SWE	6:44.63	Leo Visser, NED	6:44.98	Gerard Kemkers, NED	6:45.92
1992	Geir Karlstad, NOR	6:59.97	Falko Zandstra, NED	7:02.28	Leo Visser, NED	7:04.96
1994	Johan Olav Koss, NOR	6:34.96	Kjell Storelid, NOR	6:42.68	Rintje Ritsma, NED	6:43.94
1998	Gianni Romme, NED	6:22.20	Rintje Ritsma, NED	6:28.24	Bart Veldkamp, BEL	6:28.31
2002	Jochem Uytdehaage, NED	6:14.66	Derek Parra, USA	6:17.98	Jens Boden, GER	6:21.73
2006	Chad Hedrick, USA	6:14.68	Sven Kramer, NED	6:16.40	Enrico Fabris, ITA	6:18.25

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Men's 10-Kilometer

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1924	Julius Skutnabb, FIN	18:04.8	Clas Thunberg, FIN	18:07.8	Roald Larsen, NOR	18:12.2
1928	Irving Jaffee, USA	18:36.5	Bernt Evensen, NOR	18:36.6	Otto Polacsek, AUT	20:00.9
Unofficial; event was not concluded because of warm weather
1932	Irving Jaffee, USA	19:13.6	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	---	Frank Stack, CAN
1936	Ivar Ballangrud, NOR	17:24.3	Birger Wasenius, FIN	17:28.2	Max Stiepl, AUT	17:30.0
1948	Åke Seyffarth, SWE	17:26.3	Lauri Parkkinen, FIN	17:36.0	Pentti Lammio, FIN	17:42.7
1952	Hjalmar Andersen, NOR	16:45.8	Kees Broekman, NED	17:10.6	Carl-Erik Asplund, SWE	17:16.6
1956	Sigvard Ericsson, SWE	16:35.9	Knut Johannesen, NOR	16:36.9	Oleg Goncharenko, URS	16:42.3
1960	Knut Johannesen, NOR	15:46.6	Viktor Kosichkin, URS	15:49.2	Kjell Bäckman, SWE	16:14.2
1964	Jonny Nilsson, SWE	15:50.1	Fred Anton Maier, NOR	16:06.0	Knut Johannesen, NOR	16:06.3
1968	Johnny Höglin, SWE	15:23.6	Fred Anton Maier, NOR	15:23.9	Örjan Sandler, SWE	15:31.8
1972	Ard Schenk, NED	15:01.35	Kees Verkerk, NED	15:04.70	Sten Stensen, NOR	15:07.08
1976	Piet Kleine, NED	14:50.59	Sten Stensen, NOR	14:53.30	Hans van Helden, NED	15:02.02
1980	Eric Heiden, USA	14:28.13	Piet Kleine, NED	14:36.03	Tom Erik Oxholm, NOR	14:36.60
1984	Igor Malkov, URS	14:39.90	Tomas Gustafson, SWE	14:39.95	René Schöfisch, GDR	14:46.91
1988	Tomas Gustafson, SWE	13:48.20	Michael Hadschieff, AUT	13:56.11	Leo Visser, NED	14:00.55
1992	Bart Veldkamp, NED	14:12.12	Johan Olav Koss, NOR	14:14.58	Geir Karlstad, NOR	14:18.13
1994	Johan Olav Koss, NOR	13:30.55	Kjell Storelid, NOR	13:49.25	Bart Veldkamp, NED	13:56.73
1998	Gianni Romme, NED	13:15.33	Bob de Jong, NED	13:25.76	Rintje Ritsma, NED	13:28.19
2002	Jochem Uytdehaage, NED	12:58.92	Gianni Romme, NED	13:10.03	Lasse Sætre, NOR	13:16.92
2006	Bob de Jong, NED	13:01.57	Chad Hedrick, USA	13:05.40	Carl Verheijen, NED	13:08.80

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Men's Team Pursuit

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2006	Italy	3:44.46	Canada	3:47.28	Netherlands	3:44.53

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Men's All-Around

[Discontinued]
Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1924	Clas Thunberg, FIN	5.5	Roald Larsen, NOR	9.5	Julius Skutnabb, FIN	11

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Women's 500-Meter

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1960	Helga Haase, GER	45.9	Natalya Donchenko, URS	46.0	Jeanne Ashworth, USA	46.1
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, URS	45.0	Irina Yegorova, URS	45.4	Tatyana Sidorova, URS	45.5
1968	Lyudmila Titova, URS	46.1	Jennifer Fish, USA, Dianne Holum, USA & Mary Meyers, USA	46.3
1972	Anne Henning, USA	43.33	Vera Krasnova, URS	44.01	Lyudmila Titova, URS	44.45
1976	Sheila Young, USA	42.76	Cathy Priestner, CAN	43.12	Tatyana Averina, URS	43.17
1980	Karin Enke, GDR	41.78	Leah Mueller, USA	42.26	Natalya Petruseva, URS	42.42
1984	Christa Rothenburger, GDR	41.02	Karin Enke, GDR	41.28	Natalya Chive, URS	41.50
1988	Bonnie Blair, USA	39.10	Christa Rothenburger, GDR	39.12	Karin Kania (Enke), GDR	39.24
1992	Bonnie Blair, USA	40.33	Ye Qiaobo, CHN	40.51	Christa Luding (Rothenburger), GER	40.57
1994	Bonnie Blair, USA	39.25	Susan Auch, CAN	39.61	Franziska Schenk, GER	39.70
1998	Catriona LeMay Doan, CAN	1:16.60	Susan Auch, CAN	1:16.93	Tomomi Okazaki, JPN	1:17.10
2002	Catriona LeMay Doan, CAN	1:14.75	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt, GER	1:14.94	Sabine Völker, GER	1:15.19
2006	Svetlana Zhurova, RUS	1:16.57	Manli Wang, CHN	1:16.78	Hui Ren, CHN	1:16.87

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Women's 1000-Meter

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1960	Klara Guseva, URS	1:34.1	Helga Haase, GER	1:34.3	Tamara Rylova, URS	1:34.8
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, URS	1:33.2	Irina Yegorova, URS	1:34.3	Kaija Mustonen, FIN	1:34.8
1968	Carry Geijssen, NED	1:32.6	Lyudmila Titova, URS	1:32.9	Dianne Holum, USA	1:33.4
1972	Monika Pflug, FRG	1:31.40	Atje Keulen-Deelstra, NED	1:31.61	Anne Henning, USA	1:31.62
1976	Tatyana Averina, URS	1:28.43	Leah Poulos, USA	1:28.57	Sheila Young, USA	1:29.14
1980	Natalya Petruseva, URS	1:24.10	Leah Mueller (Poulos), USA	1:25.41	Silvia Albrecht, GDR	1:26.46
1984	Karin Enke, GDR	1:21.61	Andrea Schöne, GDR	1:22.83	Natalya Petruseva, URS	1:23.21
1988	Christa Rothenburger, GDR	1:17.65	Karin Kania (Enke), GDR	1:17.70	Bonnie Blair, USA	1:18.31
1992	Bonnie Blair, USA	1:21.90	Ye Qiaobo, CHN	1:21.92	Monique Garbrecht, GER	1:22.10
1994	Bonnie Blair, USA	1:18.74	Anke Baier, GER	1:20.12	Ye Qiaobo, CHN	1:20.22
1998	Marianne Timmer, NED	1:16.51	Chris Witty, USA	1:16.79	Catriona LeMay Doan, CAN	1:17.37
2002	Chris Witty, USA	1:13.83	Sabine Völker, GER	1:13.96	Jennifer Rodriguez, USA	1:14.24
2006	Marianne Timmer, NED	1:16.05	Cindy Klassen, CAN	1:16.09	Anni Friesinger, GER	1:16.11

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Women's 1500-Meter

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1960	Lydia Skoblikova, URS	2:25.2	Elwira Seroczynska, POL	2:25.7	Helena Pilejczyk, POL	2:27.1
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, URS	2:22.6	Kaija Mustonen, FIN	2:25.5	Berta Kolokoltseva, URS	2:27.1
1968	Kaija Mustonen, FIN	2:22.4	Carry Geijssen, NED	2:22.7	Christina “Stien” Kaiser, NED	2:24.5
1972	Dianne Holum, USA	2:20.85	Christina “Stien” Baas-Kaiser, NED	2:21.05	Atje Keulen-Deelstra, NED	2:22.05
1976	Galina Stepanskaya, URS	2:16.58	Sheila Young, USA	2:17.06	Tatyana Averina, URS	2:17.96
1980	Annie Borckink, NED	2:10.95	Ria Visser, NED	2:12.35	Sabine Becker, GDR	2:12.38
1984	Karin Enke, GDR	2:03.42	Andrea Schöne, GDR	2:05.29	Natalya Petruseva, URS	2:05.78
1988	Yvonne van Gennip, NED	2:00.68	Karin Kania (Enke), GDR	2:00.82	Andrea Ehrig (Schöne), GDR	2:01.49
1992	Jacqueline Börner, GER	2:05.87	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann, GER	2:05.92	Seiko Hashimoto, JPN	2:06.88
1994	Emese Hunyady, AUT	2:02.19	Svetlana Fedotkina, RUS	2:02.69	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann, GER	2:03.41
1998	Marianne Timmer, NED	1:57.58	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, GER	1:58.66	Chris Witty, USA	1:58.97
2002	Anni Friesinger, GER	1:54.02	Sabine Völker, GER	1:54.97	Jennifer Rodriguez, USA	1:55.32
2006	Cindy Klassen, CAN	1:59.27	Kristina Groves, CAN	1:56.74	Ireen Wust, NED	1:56.90

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Women's 3-Kilometer

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1960	Lydia Skoblikova, URS	5:14.3	Valentina Stenina, URS	5:16.9	Eevi Huttunen, FIN	5:21.0
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, URS	5:14.9	Han Pil-Hwa, PRK & Valentina Stenina, URS	5:18.5
1968	Johanna “Ans” Schut, NED	4:56.2	Kaija Mustonen, FIN	5:01.0	Christina “Stien” Kaiser, NED	5:01.3
1972	Christina “Stien” Baas-Kaiser, NED	4:52.14	Dianne Holum, USA	4:58.67	Atje Keulen-Deelstra, NED	4:59.91
1976	Tatyana Averina, URS	4:45.19	Andrea Mitscherlich, GDR	4:45.23	Lisbeth Korsmo, NOR	4:45.24
1980	Bjørg Eva Jensen, NOR	4:32.13	Sabine Becker, GDR	4:32.79	Beth Heiden, USA	4:33.77
1984	Andrea Schöne (Mitscherlich), GDR	4:24.79	Karin Enke, GDR	4:26.33	Gabi Schönbrunn, GDR	4:33.13
1988	Yvonne van Gennip, NED	4:11.94	Andrea Ehrig (Schöne), GDR	4:12.09	Gabi Zange (Schönbrunn), GDR	4:16.92
1992	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann, GER	4:19.90	Heike Warnicke, GER	4:22.88	Emese Hunyady, AUT	4:24.64
1994	Svetlana Bazhanova, RUS	4:17.43	Emese Hunyady, AUT	4:18.14	Claudia Pechstein, GER	4:18.34
1998	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, GER	4:07.29	Claudia Pechstein, GER	4:08.47	Anni Friesinger, GER	4:09.44
2002	Claudia Pechstein, GER	3:57.70	Renate Groenewold, NED	3:58.94	Cindy Klassen, CAN	3:58.97
2006	Ireen Wust, NED	4:02.43	Renate Groenewold, NED	4:03.48	Cindy Klassen, CAN	4:04.37

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Women's 5-Kilometer

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1988	Yvonne van Gennip, NED	7:14.13	Andrea Ehrig, GDR	7:17.12	Gabi Zange, GDR	7:21.61
1992	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann, GER	7:31.57	Heike Warnicke, GER	7:37.59	Claudia Pechstein, GER	7:39.80
1994	Claudia Pechstein, GER	7:14.37	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann, GER	7:14.88	Hiromi Yamamoto, JPN	7:19.68
1998	Claudia Pechstein, GER	6:59.61	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, GER	6:59.65	Lyudmila Prokasheva, KAZ	7:11.14
2002	Claudia Pechstein, GER	6:46.91	Gretha Smit, NED	6:49.22	Clara Hughes, CAN	6:53.53
2006	Clara Hughes, CAN	6:59.07	Claudia Pechstein, GER	7:00.08	Cindy Klassen, CAN	7:00.57

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Women's Team Pursuit

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2006	Germany	3:01.25	Canada	3:02.91	Russia	---

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