Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Skating rink M-wave

Speed skating competitions at the 1998 Winter Olympics were held from February 8 to 18 at the M-Wave indoor ice rink in Nagano . 10 sets of medals were played, 5 each for men and women.

At the Nagano Olympics, skates with a tear-off blade (valves), which appeared in 1997, were first used.

At 5 distances out of 10, world records were broken, at the rest only Olympic records were updated.

Content

1 Medalists
- 1.1 Men
- 1.2 Women
2 Team classification
3 References

Medalists

Men

Distance	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Σ = 71.35 OR 1) 35.76 OR 2) 35.59 OR	Jeremy Waterspoon	Σ = 71.84 1) 36.04 2) 35.80	Kevin Overland	Σ = 71.86 1) 35.78 2) 36.08
1000 m	Eds Postma	1: 10.64 OR	Jan Bos	1: 10.71	Hiroyasu Shimizu	1: 11.00
1,500 m	One Sentrol	1: 47.87Wr	Eds Postma	1: 48.13	Rintier Ritsma	1: 48.52
5000 m	Gianni Romme	6: 22.20 Wr	Rintier Ritsma	6: 28.24	Bart Weldkamp	6: 28.31
10,000 m	Gianni Romme	13: 15.33 Wr	Bob de jong	13: 25.76	Rintier Ritsma	13: 28.19

Women

Distance	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Katrion Lemey-Doan	Σ = 76.60 OR 1) 38.39 OR 2) 38.21 OR	Susan Osh	Σ = 76.93 1) 38.42 2) 38.51	Tomomi Okazaki	Σ = 77.10 1) 38.55 2) 38.55
1000 m	Marianne Timmer	1: 16.51 OR	Chris Whitty	1: 16.79	Katrion Lemey-Doan	1: 17.37
1,500 m	Marianne Timmer	1: 57.58 Wr	Gunda Niman-Stirnemann	1: 58.66	Chris Whitty	1: 58.97
3000 m	Gunda Niman-Stirnemann	4: 07.29 OR	Claudia Pechstein	4: 08.47	Annie Friesinger	4: 09.44
5000 m	Claudia Pechstein	6: 59.61 Wr	Gunda Niman-Stirnemann	6: 59.65	Lyudmila Prokasheva	7: 11.14

Team Event

A place	A country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
one	Netherlands	5	four	2	eleven
2	Germany	2	3	one	6
3	Canada	one	2	2	5
four	Japan	one	0	2	3
5	Norway	one	0	0	one
6	USA	0	one	one	2
7	Belgium	0	0	one	one
7	Kazakhstan	0	0	one	one
		10	10	10	thirty

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Speed ​​skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics