Speed skating at the XVI Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | L'anneau de vitesse |
Dates | 9–20 February 1992 |
No. of events | 10 |
Competitors | 154 from 23 nations |
Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics | ||
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500 m | men | women |
1000 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
3000 m | women | |
5000 m | men | women |
10,000 m | men | |
Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, was held from 9 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at L'anneau de vitesse. It was the last time in Winter Olympics in which speed skating events were contested in an outdoor ice rink. [1] [2]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Germany (GER) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
2 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
3 | United States (USA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
4 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
5 | China (CHN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
6 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
7 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (8 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Germany, in its first Olympics since reunification, topped the medal table with five gold medals, and eleven total medals. All the medals were won by athletes from the former East Germany. Germany's Gunda Niemann led the individual medal table with two golds and a silver, and Norway's Johan Olav Koss was the most successful male skater, with one gold and one silver.
South Korea's Kim Yoon-Man and China's Ye Qiaobo became the first ever medalists for their countries at the Winter Olympics. Bonnie Blair collected two gold medals to become the second most successful female speed skater of the games.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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500 metres | Uwe-Jens Mey Germany | 37.14 | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Japan | 37.18 | Junichi Inoue Japan | 37.26 |
1000 metres | Olaf Zinke Germany | 1:14.85 | Kim Yoon-man South Korea | 1:14.86 | Yukinori Miyabe Japan | 1:14.92 |
1500 metres | Johann Olav Koss Norway | 1:54.81 | Ådne Søndrål Norway | 1:54.85 | Leo Visser Netherlands | 1:54.90 |
5000 metres | Geir Karlstad Norway | 6:59.97 | Falko Zandstra Netherlands | 7:02.28 | Leo Visser Netherlands | 7:04.96 |
10,000 metres | Bart Veldkamp Netherlands | 14:12.12 | Johann Olav Koss Norway | 14:14.58 | Geir Karlstad Norway | 14:18.13 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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500 metres | Bonnie Blair United States | 40.33 | Ye Qiaobo China | 40.51 | Christa Luding Germany | 40.57 |
1000 metres | Bonnie Blair United States | 1:21.90 | Ye Qiaobo China | 1:21.92 | Monique Garbrecht Germany | 1:22.10 |
1500 metres | Jacqueline Börner Germany | 2:05.87 | Gunda Niemann Germany | 2:05.92 | Seiko Hashimoto Japan | 2:06.88 |
3000 metres | Gunda Niemann Germany | 4:19.90 | Heike Warnicke Germany | 4:22.88 | Emese Hunyady Austria | 4:24.64 |
5000 metres | Gunda Niemann Germany | 7:31.57 | Heike Warnicke Germany | 7:37.59 | Claudia Pechstein Germany | 7:39.80 |
There were no Olympic or World records set at the 1992 Games, as the outdoor rink in Albertville (as of today the last speed skating outdoor rink in Winter Games history) was not conducive to fast times. [3] [4]
Twenty-three nations competed in the speed skating events at Albertville. The Unified Team made its only Olympic appearance.
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