World Speed ​​Skating Individual Distance Championships 2004

The 8th Individual Distance World Championships were held from March 12th to 14th in Seoul, South Korea ( Taereung Ice Rink ).

Participating Nations

• 112 athletes from 18 nations took part in the championship

Participating Nations
Belgium Belarus Canada People's Republic of China	Czech Republic Finland Germany Italy	Japan South Korea Netherlands Norway	Poland Romania Russia Switzerland	Sweden United States

winner

• Shows the three medal places of the individual distances

Women

distance	gold	silver	bronze
2 × 500 meters	Wang Manli	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Ren Hui
1,000 meters	Anni Friesinger	Marianne Timmer	Cindy classes
1,500 meters	Anni Friesinger	Cindy classes	Jennifer Rodriguez
3,000 meters	Claudia Pechstein	Gretha Smit Anni Friesinger
5,000 meters	Clara Hughes	Gretha Smit	Claudia Pechstein

Men

distance	gold	silver	bronze
2 × 500 meters	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Dmitry Lobkov	Mike Ireland
1,000 meters	Wennemar's heirs	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Masaaki Kobayashi
1,500 meters	Shani Davis	Mark Tuitert	Wennemar's heirs
5,000 meters	Chad Hedrick	Carl Verheijen	Gianni Rummy
10,000 meters	Carl Verheijen	Bob de Jong	Chad Hedrick

Competitions

Women

2 × 500 meters

• The times of both 500 m runs in seconds are added up and give the total number of points

space	Surname	country	1st run 500 meters	2nd run 500 meters	Total points
1	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	38.65 (1)	38.23 (1)	76.88
2	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Belarus	39.17 (4)	38.69 (2)	77.86
3	Ren Hui	People's Republic of China	39.16 (3)	39.16 (4)	78.32
4th	Jenny Wolf	Germany	39.11 (2)	39.24 (5)	78.35
5	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	39.25 (5)	39.42 (8)	78.67
6th	Shihomi Shin'ya	Japan	39.60 (9)	39.12 (3)	78.72
7th	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Germany	39.48 (7)	39.30 (6)	78.78
8th	Andrea Nuyt	Netherlands	39.52 (8)	39.62 (12)	79.14
9	Aki Tonoike	Japan	39.73 (12)	39.43 (9)	79.16
10	Chiara Simionato	Italy	39.39 (6)	39.78 (15)	79.17
13	Pamela Zoellner	Germany	39.65 (10)	39.59 (11)	79.24

1,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Anni Friesinger	Germany	1: 17.82
2	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	1: 18.50
3	Cindy classes	Canada	1: 18.68
4th	Anzhelika Kotjuga Jennifer Rodriguez	Belarus United States	1: 18.80
6th	Chris Witty	United States	1: 19.08
7th	Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt	Germany	1: 19.32
8th	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	1: 19.54
9	Maki Tabata	Japan	1: 19.59
10	Chiara Simionato	Italy	1: 19.72
15th	Pamela Zoellner	Germany	1: 20.36

1,500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Anni Friesinger	Germany	2: 00.48
2	Cindy classes	Canada	2: 01.21
3	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	2: 01.54
4th	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	2: 01.58
5	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	2: 02.71
6th	Maki Tabata	Japan	2: 02.93
7th	Wang Fei	People's Republic of China	2: 03.10
8th	Chiara Simionato	Italy	2: 03.28
9	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	2: 03.68
10	Katarzyna Wójcicka	Poland	2: 03.95
17th	Daniela Anschütz	Germany	2: 04.75
21st	Lucille Opitz	Germany	2: 06.32

3,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	4: 13.46
2	Gretha Smit Anni Friesinger	Netherlands Germany	4: 13.85
4th	Clara Hughes	Canada	4: 13.98
5	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	4: 15.50
6th	Kristina Groves	Canada	4: 17.09
7th	Catherine Raney	United States	4: 17.66
8th	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	4: 18.29
9	Valentina Jaksjina	Russia	4: 18.54
10	Helen van Goozen	Netherlands	4: 19.52

5,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Clara Hughes	Canada	7: 10.66
2	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	7: 11.17
3	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	7: 13.42
4th	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	Germany	7: 16.26
5	Valentina Jaksjina	Russia	7: 20.32
6th	Catherine Raney	United States	7: 24.90
7th	Svetlana Vysokowa	Russia	7: 24.91
8th	Kristina Groves	Canada	7: 25.04
9	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	7: 25.47
10	Helen van Goozen	Netherlands	7: 28.79
11	Daniela Anschütz	Germany	7: 30.58
15th	Henriët Bosker	Switzerland	7: 37.90

Men

2 × 500 meters

• The times of both 500 m runs in seconds are added up and give the total number of points

space	Surname	country	1st run 500 meters	2nd run 500 meters	Total points
1	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	35.54 (2)	35.25 (1)	70.79
2	Dmitry Lobkov	Russia	35.68 (4)	35.46 (2)	71.14
3	Mike Ireland	Canada	35.40 (1)	35.80 (8)	71.20
4th	Masaaki Kobayashi	Japan	35.60 (3)	35.61 (5)	71.21
5	Casey Fitzrandolph	United States	35.78 (5)	35.59 (4)	71.37
6th	Pekka Koskela	Finland	35.88 (10)	35.55 (3)	71.43
7th	Kip Carpenter	United States	35.78 (5)	35.72 (6)	71.50
8th	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	35.86 (9)	35.82 (9)	71.68
9	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	35.81 (7)	35.94 (11)	71.75
10	Joey Cheek	United States	36.10 (14)	35.74 (7)	71.84

1,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	1: 10.66
2	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	1: 11.12
3	Masaaki Kobayashi	Japan	1: 11.58
4th	Joey Cheek	United States	1: 11.68
5	Jan Bos	Netherlands	1: 11.70
6th	Kip Carpenter	United States	1: 11.71
7th	Takaharu Nakajima	Japan	1: 11.83
8th	Tadashi Obara	Japan	1: 11.85
9	Janne Hänninen	Finland	1: 12.01
10	Pekka Koskela	Finland	1: 12.05

1,500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Shani Davis	United States	1: 48.64
2	Mark Tuitert	Netherlands	1: 49.29
3	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	1: 49.49
4th	Ralf van der Rijst	Netherlands	1: 50.26
5	Chad Hedrick	United States	1: 50.84
6th	Li Changyu	People's Republic of China	1: 50.94
7th	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	1: 51.07
8th	Derek Parra	United States	1: 51.13
9	Enrico Fabris	Italy	1: 51.37
10	Jan Friesinger	Germany	1: 51.62
20th	Jörg Dallmann	Germany	1: 53.35

5,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Chad Hedrick	United States	6: 34.37
2	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	6: 38.15
3	Gianni Rummy	Netherlands	6: 38.73
4th	Eskil Ervik	Norway	6: 40.82
5	Enrico Fabris	Italy	6: 41.80
6th	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	6: 43.17
7th	Ivan Skobrew	Russia	6: 44.48
8th	Paweł Jan Zygmunt	Poland	6: 45.61
9	Øystein Grødum	Norway	6: 46.30
10	Witold Mazur	Poland	6: 48.02
11	Frank Dittrich	Germany	6: 48.04
12	René Taubenrauch	Germany	6: 48.35
14th	Jens Boden	Germany	6: 50.41

10,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	13: 37.15
2	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	13: 45.52
3	Chad Hedrick	United States	13: 54.98
4th	KC Boutiette	United States	13: 56.81
5	Øystein Grødum	Norway	13: 57.36
6th	Frank Dittrich	Germany	13: 58.32
7th	René Taubenrauch	Germany	14: 03.39
8th	Witold Mazur	Poland	14: 04.12
9	Gianni Rummy	Netherlands	14: 04.15
10	Yuri Kokhanets	Russia	14: 04.74

total

The medals in the team competition are included as an individual medal in the nation ranking and in the ranking list as one medal per starter

• Place: Indicates the order of the athletes. This is determined by the number of gold medals. If the number is the same, the silver medals are compared, then the bronze medals
• Name: gives the name of the athlete
• Country: Name the country for which the athlete started
• Gold: states the number of gold medals won
• Silver: states the number of silver medals won
• Bronze: states the number of bronze medals won
• Total: states the number of all medals won

Top ten

• The top ten shows the ten most successful athletes (women / men)

space	Surname	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Anni Friesinger	Germany	2	1	0	3
1.	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	2	1	0	3
3.	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	1	1	0	2
4th	Chad Hedrick	United States	1	0	1	2
4th	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	1	0	1	2
6th	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
6th	Clara Hughes	Canada	1	0	0	1
6th	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	1	0	0	1
9.	Shani Davis	United States	1	0	0	1
10.	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	0	2	0	2

Nations ranking

• The nation ranking shows the most successful nations (women / men)

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Netherlands	3	6th	2	11
2.	Germany	3	1	1	5
3.	Canada	2	2	2	6th
4th	United States	2	0	2	4th
5.	People's Republic of China	1	0	1	2
6th	Belarus	0	1	0	1
7th	Russia	0	1	0	1
8th.	Japan	0	0	1	1

Women

Ranking list

• The ranking shows the most successful female athletes in the individual distance world championships

space	Surname	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Anni Friesinger	Germany	2	1	0	3
2.	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	1	0	1	2
3.	Clara Hughes	Canada	1	0	0	1
3.	Wang Manli	People's Republic of China	1	0	0	1
5.	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	0	2	0	2
6th	Cindy classes	Canada	0	1	1	2
7th	Anzhelika Kotjuga	Belarus	0	1	0	1
7th	Marianne Timmer	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
9.	Ren Hui	People's Republic of China	0	0	1	1
9.	Jennifer Rodriguez	United States	0	0	1	1

Nations ranking

• The nations ranking shows the most successful nations (women)

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Germany	3	1	1	5
2.	Canada	1	1	1	3
3.	People's Republic of China	1	0	1	2
4th	Netherlands	0	3	0	3
5.	United States	0	1	1	2
6th	Belarus	0	1	0	1

Men

Ranking list

• The ranking shows the most successful athletes of the individual distance world championships

space	Surname	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	2	1	0	3
2.	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	1	1	0	2
3.	Chad Hedrick	United States	1	0	1	2
3.	Wennemar's heirs	Netherlands	1	0	1	2
5.	Shani Davis	United States	1	0	0	1
6th	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
6th	Dmitry Lobkov	Russia	0	1	0	1
6th	Mark Tuitert	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
9.	Gianni Rummy	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
10.	Masaaki Kobayashi	Japan	0	0	1	1
10.	Mike Ireland	Canada	0	0	1	1

Nations ranking

• The nation ranking shows the most successful nations (men)

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1.	Netherlands	3	3	2	8th
2.	United States	2	0	1	3
3.	Canada	1	1	1	3
4th	Russia	0	1	0	1
5.	Japan	0	0	1	1

Web links

• Results overview on speedskatingnews.info