Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Speed skating

| games = 1998 Winter

| num_events = 10

| image = Speed Skating, Nagano 1998.png

| image_size = 150px

| venue = M-Wave

| dates = 8–20 February 1998

| competitors = 169

| nations = 25

| prev = 1994

| next = 2002

}}

Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, was held from 8 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at M-Wave.{{cite web

| title = Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3

| url = http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1998/Vol3_e.pdf

| publisher = LA84 Foundation

| work = Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee

| year = 1998

| accessdate = 28 January 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/SSK/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417041408/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1998/SSK/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Speed Skating at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games |work=Sports Reference |accessdate=5 November 2019}} 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

=Medal table=

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host =

| flag_template = flagIOCteam

| event = 1998 Winter

| team =

| gold_NED = 5 | silver_NED = 4 | bronze_NED = 2

| gold_GER = 2 | silver_GER = 3 | bronze_GER = 1

| gold_CAN = 1 | silver_CAN = 2 | bronze_CAN = 2

| gold_JPN = 1 | silver_JPN = 0 | bronze_JPN = 2

| gold_NOR = 1 | silver_NOR = 0 | bronze_NOR = 0

| gold_USA = 0 | silver_USA = 1 | bronze_USA = 1

| gold_KAZ = 0 | silver_KAZ = 0 | bronze_KAZ = 1

| gold_BEL = 0 | silver_BEL = 0 | bronze_BEL = 1

}}

=Men's events=

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| 500 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Hiroyasu Shimizu|JPN|1998 Winter}}

1:11.35

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Jeremy Wotherspoon|CAN|1998 Winter}}

1:11.84

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Kevin Overland|CAN|1998 Winter}}

1:11.86

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| 1000 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Ids Postma|NED|1998 Winter}}

1:10.64
({{OlyR}})

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Jan Bos|NED|1998 Winter}}

1:10.71

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Hiroyasu Shimizu|JPN|1998 Winter}}

1:11.00

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| 1500 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Ådne Søndrål|NOR|1998 Winter}}

1:47.87
{{WR}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Ids Postma|NED|1998 Winter}}

1:48.13

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Rintje Ritsma|NED|1998 Winter}}

1:48.52

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| 5000 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Gianni Romme|NED|1998 Winter}}

6:22.20
{{WR}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Rintje Ritsma|NED|1998 Winter}}

6:28.24

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Bart Veldkamp|BEL|1998 Winter}}

6:28.31

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| 10,000 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Gianni Romme|NED|1998 Winter}}

13:15.33
{{WR}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Bob de Jong|NED|1998 Winter}}

13:25.76

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Rintje Ritsma|NED|1998 Winter}}

13:28.19

=Women's events=

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| 500 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Catriona Le May Doan|CAN|1998 Winter}}

1:16.60

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Susan Auch|CAN|1998 Winter}}

1:16.93

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Tomomi Okazaki|JPN|1998 Winter}}

1:17.10

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| 1000 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Marianne Timmer|NED|1998 Winter}}

1:16.51
(OR)

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Chris Witty|USA|1998 Winter}}

1:16.79

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Catriona Le May Doan|CAN|1998 Winter}}

1:17.37

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| 1500 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Marianne Timmer|NED|1998 Winter}}

1:57.58 {{WR}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann|GER|1998 Winter}}

1:58.66

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Chris Witty|USA|1998 Winter}}

1:58.97

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| 3000 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann|GER|1998 Winter}}

4:07.29
(OR)

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Claudia Pechstein|GER|1998 Winter}}

4:08.47

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Anni Friesinger-Postma|GER|1998 Winter}}

4:09.44

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| 5000 metres
{{DetailsLink|Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Claudia Pechstein|GER|1998 Winter}}

6:59.61 {{WR}}

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann|GER|1998 Winter}}

6:59.65

|{{flagIOCmedalist|Lyudmila Prokasheva|KAZ|1998 Winter}}

7:11.14

Records

Five world records and twelve Olympic records were set in Nagano.{{cite web

| title = ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records

| url = http://www.isu.html.infostradasports.com/cache/TheASP.asp@PageID%3D103171&SportID%3D103&RecordtypeID%3D10&StadiumID%3D-1&TaalCode%3D2&StyleID%3D0&Cache%3D2.html?328731

| work = International Skating Union

| accessdate = 29 January 2014}}{{cite web

| title = ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records

| url = http://www.isu.html.infostradasports.com/cache/TheASP.asp@PageID%3D103171&SportID%3D103&RecordtypeID%3D3&StadiumID%3D-1&TaalCode%3D2&StyleID%3D0&Cache%3D2.html?317012

| work = International Skating Union

| accessdate = 29 January 2014}}

Event	Date	Team	Time	OR	WR
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
rowspan=2\| Men's 500 metres	9 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Hiroyasu Shimizu\|JPN\|1998 Winter}}	35.76	OR
11 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Hiroyasu Shimizu\|JPN\|1998 Winter}}	35.59	OR
Men's 1000 metres	15 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Ids Postma\|NED\|1998 Winter}}	1:10.64	OR
Men's 1500 metres	12 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Ådne Søndrål\|NOR\|1998 Winter}}	1:47.87	OR	WR
Men's 5000 metres	8 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Gianni Romme\|NED\|1998 Winter}}	6:22.20	OR	WR
Men's 10000 metres	17 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Gianni Romme\|NED\|1998 Winter}}	13:15.33	OR	WR
rowspan=2\| Women's 500 metres	13 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Catriona Le May Doan\|CAN\|1998 Winter}}	38.39	OR
14 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Catriona Le May Doan\|CAN\|1998 Winter}}	38.21	OR
Women's 1000 metres	19 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Marianne Timmer\|NED\|1998 Winter}}	1:16.51	OR
Women's 1500 metres	16 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Marianne Timmer\|NED\|1998 Winter}}	1:57.58	OR	WR
Women's 3000 metres	11 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann\|GER\|1998 Winter}}	4:07.29	OR
Women's 5000 metres	20 February	{{flagIOCathlete\|Claudia Pechstein\|GER\|1998 Winter}}	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.

{{flagIOC|AUT|1998 Winter|4}}
{{flagIOC|BLR|1998 Winter|4}}
{{flagIOC|BEL|1998 Winter|1}}
{{flagIOC|CAN|1998 Winter|17}}
{{flagIOC|CHN|1998 Winter|12}}
{{flagIOC|FIN|1998 Winter|1}}
{{flagIOC|FRA|1998 Winter|1}}
{{flagIOC|GER|1998 Winter|13}}
{{flagIOC|HUN|1998 Winter|2}}
{{flagIOC|ITA|1998 Winter|4}}
{{flagIOC|JPN|1998 Winter|17}}
{{flagIOC|KAZ|1998 Winter|7}}
{{flagIOC|KOR|1998 Winter|13}}
{{flagIOC|LAT|1998 Winter|1}}
{{flagIOC|NED|1998 Winter|16}}
{{flagIOC|NOR|1998 Winter|10}}
{{flagIOC|NZL|1998 Winter|1}}
{{flagIOC|POL|1998 Winter|3}}
{{flagIOC|POR|1998 Winter|1}}
{{flagIOC|PRK|1998 Winter|2}}
{{flagIOC|ROU|1998 Winter|2}}
{{flagIOC|RUS|1998 Winter|18}}
{{flagIOC|SUI|1998 Winter|1}}
{{flagIOC|UKR|1998 Winter|4}}
{{flagIOC|USA|1998 Winter|14}}

References

Category:1998 in speed skating

Olympics, 1998

Category:Events at the 1998 Winter Olympics