Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games

Venue	Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia
Dates	8–22 February 2014
No. of events	12
Competitors	179 from 23 nations

Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Team pursuit	men	women

The speed skating competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia, between 8 and 22 February 2014.^[1]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all twelve events.^[1]

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
8 February	15:30	5000 m men
9 February	15:30	3000 m women
10 February	17:00	500 m men
11 February	16:45	500 m women
12 February	18:00	1000 m men
13 February	18:00	1000 m women
15 February	17:30	1500 m men
16 February	18:00	1500 m women
18 February	17:00	10000 m men
19 February	17:30	5000 m women
21 February	17:30	Team pursuit men qualification
21 February	17:30	Team pursuit women qualification
22 February	17:30	Team pursuit men
22 February	17:30	Team pursuit women

Medal summary

The Netherlands dominated in speed skating winning eight out of the twelve gold medals and won a total of 23 medals, with medals in all events.^[2] There were four Dutch podium sweeps where the Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medal, making the Netherlands the first country in Olympic history (both Summer and Winter Games) to achieve this. The events were the: Men's 5000m, Men's 500m, Women's 1500m and Men's 10000m. In the women's 1,500 metres, Dutch athletes placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th; the first such result in Olympic speed skating history by athletes from a single nation.

(WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	8	7	8	23
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
3	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
5	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
6	Russia (RUS)	0	1	2	3
7	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	Total	12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Michel Mulder Netherlands	69.31	Jan Smeekens Netherlands	69.32	Ronald Mulder Netherlands	69.46
1000 metres	Stefan Groothuis Netherlands	1:08.39	Denny Morrison Canada	1:08.43	Michel Mulder Netherlands	1:08.74
1500 metres	Zbigniew Bródka Poland	1:45.006	Koen Verweij Netherlands	1:45.009	Denny Morrison Canada	1:45.22
5000 metres	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:10.76 OR	Jan Blokhuijsen Netherlands	6:15.71	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:16.66
10000 metres	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	12:44.45 OR	Sven Kramer Netherlands	12:49.02	Bob de Jong Netherlands	13:07.19
Team pursuit	Netherlands (NED) Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:37.71 OR	South Korea (KOR) Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3:40.85	Poland (POL) Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:41.94

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	74.70 OR	Olga Fatkulina Russia	75.06	Margot Boer Netherlands	75.48
1000 metres	Zhang Hong China	1:14.02	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:14.69	Margot Boer Netherlands	1:14.90
1500 metres	Jorien ter Mors Netherlands	1:53.51 OR	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:54.09	Lotte van Beek Netherlands	1:54.54
3000 metres	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:00.34	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:01.95	Olga Graf Russia	4:03.47
5000 metres	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:51.54	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	6:54.28	Carien Kleibeuker Netherlands	6:55.66
Team pursuit	Netherlands (NED) Jorien ter Mors Marrit Leenstra Lotte van Beek Ireen Wüst	2:58.05 OR	Poland (POL) Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska Katarzyna Woźniak	3:05.55	Russia (RUS) Olga Graf Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova Yuliya Skokova	2:59.73

Olympic records broken

Main article: World and Olympic records set at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Scoreboard indicating the Olympic record of the men's 5000 m

Event	Date	Round	Name	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 5000 metres	8 February	Pair 10	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:10.76	OR	^[3]
Women's 500 metres	11 February	Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	37.28	OR	^[4]
Women's 500 metres	11 February	Race 1 Pair 18 Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	74.70	OR	^[4]
Women's 1500 metres	16 February	Pair 9	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	OR	^[5]
Men's 10000 metres	18 February	Pair 6	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12:44.45	OR	^[6]

Qualification

Main article: Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification

Each NOC was allowed to delegate a maximal number of ten men and ten women speed skaters who reached the qualification criteria. A proposal of the Dutch skating association (KNSB) to add an extra athlete, especially for the team pursuit event, was rejected at the congress of the international federation ISU in Kuala Lumpur in June 2012.^[7]

Qualification times

The qualification times were released in July 2013. The women's times stayed the same from Vancouver except for a more stringent standard in the 3000 m, while the men's qualification times have all slightly decreased.^[8]

Event	Men	Women
500 m	35.90	39.50
1000 m	1:10.80	1:18.50
1500 m	1:48.50	2:00.00
3000 m	N/A	4:15.00
5000 m	6:33.00	7:20.00 or 4:10.00 (3000 m)
10000 m	13:30.00 or 6:28.00 (5000 m)	N/A

Participating nations

179 athletes from 23 nations participated, with number of athletes in parentheses. Chinese Taipei made its debut in the sport.

Australia (1)
Austria (2)
Belgium (2)
Canada (17)
China (10)
Chinese Taipei (1)
Czech Republic (2)
Finland (3)

France (3)
Germany (14)
Hungary (1)
Italy (6)
Japan (17)
Kazakhstan (6)
Latvia (1)
Netherlands (20)

New Zealand (1)
Norway (9)
Poland (10)
Russia (19)
South Korea (18)
Sweden (1)
United States (17)

References

1 2 "Speed Skating Schedule and Results". SOOC. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
↑ "Official Results Book Speed Skating 8 to 22 February" (PDF). 1.0. Sochi: Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
↑ "Speed Skating – Men's 5000 m results". Sochi 2014. 8 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
1 2 Brian Stubits (11 February 2014). "Lee Sang-hwa sets Olympic records to win second straight 500m gold". CBS Sports.com. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
↑ "Speed Skating – Women's 1500 m results". Sochi 2014. 16 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
↑ "Speed Skating - Men's 10000 m results". Sochi 2014. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
↑ "Qualification System for XXII Winter Olympics Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). www.isu.org. International Skating Union. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
↑ "Qualification Competition and Qualifying Times for Speed Skating Events at the 2014 Winter Olympics" (PDF). www.isu.org. International Skating Union. Retrieved 8 February 2014.

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