World Speed ​​Skating Individual Distance Championships 2020

The 20th World Single Distance Championships were from 13 to 16 February 2020, the Utah Olympic Oval in US Salt Lake City held.

A total of 16 world championship titles were awarded within the framework of the world championships, 12 of them in individual races and 4 in team competitions. The most successful participants with two titles were the Dutch Jutta Leerdam (1000 meters and team sprint) and the Russian Pawel Kulischnikow (500 meters and 1000 meters). Six world records were set during the world championships.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Netherlands	7th	5	2	14th
2	Russia	3	5	4th	12
3	Canada	3	2	4th	9
4th	Japan	2	1	2	5
5	Czech Republic	1	1	-	2
6th	South Korea	-	1	-	1
	People's Republic of China	-	1	-	1
8th	Germany	-	-	1	1
	Norway	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	United States	-	-	1	1
total		16	16	16	48

Medalist

Shows the three medal winners of the individual distances.

Women

distance	gold	silver	bronze
500 meters	Nao Kodaira	Angelina Golikova	Olga Fatkulina
1000 meters	Jutta Leerdam	Olga Fatkulina	Miho Takagi
1500 meters	Ireen Wüst	Yevgenia Lalenkova	Yelisaveta Kaselina
3000 meters	Martina Sáblíková	Carlijn eight-eects	Natalia Voronina
5000 meters	Natalia Voronina	Martina Sáblíková	Esmee Visser
Mass start	Ivanie Blondin	Kim Bo-reum	Irene Schouten
Team sprint	Netherlands Femke Kok Letitia de Jong Jutta Leerdam	Russia Olga Fatkulina Angelina Golikowa Darja Katschanowa	Poland Natalia Czerwonka Andżelika Wójcik Kaja Ziomek
Team tracking	Japan Miho Takagi Nana Takagi Ayano Satō	Netherlands Ireen Wüst Antoinette de Jong Melissa Wijfje	Canada Ivanie Blondin Valérie Maltais Isabelle Weidemann

Men

distance	gold	silver	bronze
500 meters	Pavel Kulischnikow	Ruslan Murashov	Tatsuya Shinhama
1000 meters	Pavel Kulischnikow	Kjeld Nuis	Laurent Dubreuil
1500 meters	Kjeld Nuis	Thomas Krol	Joey Mantia
5000 meters	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Sven Kramer	Graeme Fish
10,000 meters	Graeme Fish	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Patrick Beckert
Mass start	Jorrit Bergsma	Jordan Belchos	Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu
Team sprint	Netherlands Thomas Krol Dai Dai Ntab Kai Verbij	People's Republic of China Gao Tingyu Ning Zhongyan Wang Shiwei	Norway Odin By Farstad Bjørn Magnussen Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen
Team tracking	Netherlands Sven Kramer Douwe de Vries Marcel Bosker	Japan Seitaro Ichinohe Ryosuke Tsuchiya Shane Williamson	Russia Ruslan Sakharov Danila Semerikov Sergei Trofimov

Results

Women

500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Nao Kodaira	Japan	36.69 s
2	Angelina Golikova	Russia	36.74 s
3	Olga Fatkulina	Russia	36.78 s
4th	Vanessa Herzog	Austria	36.94 s
5	Kimi Goetz	United States	37.18 s
6th	Letitia de Jong	Netherlands	37.19 s
7th	Erin Jackson	United States	37.28 s
8th	Jutta Leerdam	Netherlands	37.30 s
9	Femke Kok	Netherlands	37.45 s
10	Darja Kachanova	Russia	37.47 s

Date: February 14, 2020

In the third from last pair, Nao Kodaira set the fastest time that neither defending champion Vanessa Herzog nor Angelina Golikowa and Olga Fatkulina , who ran against each other in the last duel, were able to match, with the two Russians each being less than a tenth of a second behind Kodaira. Despite her success, Kodaira was disappointed with her race as she missed Lee Sang-hwa's seven-year-old world record by about 0.3 seconds.

1000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Jutta Leerdam	Netherlands	1: 11.84 min
2	Olga Fatkulina	Russia	1: 12.33 min
3	Miho Takagi	Japan	1: 12.34 min
4th	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1: 12.64 min
5	Kimi Goetz	United States	1: 12.70 min
6th	Nao Kodaira	Japan	1: 12.86 min
7th	Ekaterina Sheikhova	Russia	1: 12.88 min
8th	Brittany Bowe	United States	1: 12.91 min
9	Letitia de Jong	Netherlands	1: 12.99 min
10	Darja Kachanova	Russia	1: 13.10 min

Date: February 15, 2020

Jutta Leerdam won her first world title in a single race. She missed the world record held by Brittany Bowe by 0.23 seconds and relegated Olga Fatkulina and Miho Takagi to second and third.

1500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1: 50.92 min
2	Yevgenia Lalenkova	Russia	1: 51.13 min
3	Yelisaveta Kaselina	Russia	1: 51.41 min
4th	Miho Takagi	Japan	1: 51.58 min
5	Melissa Wijfje	Netherlands	1: 51.78 min
6th	Ekaterina Sheikhova	Russia	1: 52.07 min
7th	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	1: 52.43 min
8th	Nana Takagi	Japan	1: 52.72 min
9	Nao Kodaira	Japan	1: 52.82 min
10	Joy Beune	Netherlands	1: 53.11 min

Date: February 16, 2020

Miho Takagi , who was the top favorite after strong performances in the World Cup , only finished fourth, while the experienced Ireen Wüst won her 20th gold medal at world championships. Behind Wüst, Yevgenia Lalenkova and Jelisaveta Kaselina secured silver and bronze.

3000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	3: 54.25 min
2	Carlijn eight-eects	Netherlands	3: 54.92 min
3	Natalia Voronina	Russia	3: 55.54 min
4th	Yevgenia Lalenkova	Russia	3: 55.81 min
5	Esmee Visser	Netherlands	3: 56.78 min
6th	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	3: 57.56 min
7th	Irene Schouten	Netherlands	3: 58.26 min
8th	Francesca Lollobrigida	Italy	3: 58.71 min
9	Maryna Sujewa	Belarus	3: 59.41 min
10	Isabelle Weidemann	Canada	4: 01.34 min

Date: February 13, 2020

As the first of the favored athletes, the 2018 Olympic champion Carlijn Achtereekte ran a time of 3: 54.92 minutes, which lasted up to the penultimate pair. There, Martina Sáblíková undercut eighth-a-tenth of a second in a duel with Ivanie Blondin and thus won her 21st world title. Bronze went to Natalja Voronina , who ran between eight eects and Sáblíková and was in the lead in the intermediate times up to the third from last lap.

5000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Natalia Voronina	Russia	6: 39.02 min
2	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	6: 41.18 min
3	Esmee Visser	Netherlands	6: 46.68 min
4th	Maryna Sujewa	Belarus	6: 48.22 min
5	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	6: 48.98 min
6th	Isabelle Weidemann	Canada	6: 49.10 min
7th	Irene Schouten	Netherlands	6: 50.59 min
8th	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	6: 55.01 min
9	Sofie Karoline Haugen	Norway	6: 56.64 min
10	Elena Sochryakova	Russia	6: 59.58 min

Date: February 15, 2020

Martina Sáblíková had won the world title ten times in a row on the 5000 meter course. In Salt Lake City, she was beaten for the first time since 2005 at an individual distance World Championship, although she undercut her own world record in the fourth of six pairs by just under a second and said she had run an "optimal race". In the last duel (against Maryna Sujewa ) Natalja Voronina was the first woman to run the 5000 meters in less than 6:40 minutes and thus won the gold medal.

Mass start

space	Surname	country	Points	time
1	Ivanie Blondin	Canada	60	8: 14.02 min
2	Kim Bo-reum	South Korea	40	8: 14.22 min
3	Irene Schouten	Netherlands	20th	8: 14.32 min
4th	Nana Takagi	Japan	10	8: 14.33 min
5	Francesca Lollobrigida	Japan	6th	8: 14.70 min
6th	Valérie Maltais	Canada	5	8: 19.63 min
7th	Mia Kilburg-Manganello	United States	3	8: 14.95 min
8th	Maryna Sujewa	Belarus	3	8: 15.82 min
9	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	2	8: 18.04 min
10	Karolina Bosiek	Poland	2	8: 23.09 min

Date: February 16, 2020

In a race that was slow except for the last two laps, Ivanie Blondin beat Kim Bo-reum and Irene Schouten on the home straight . Ayano Satō , who was also in front, was disqualified.

Team sprint

space	Surname	country	time
1	Femke Kok Jutta Leerdam Letitia de Jong	Netherlands	1: 24.02 min
2	Angelina Golikowa Olga Fatkulina Darja Katschanowa	Russia	1: 24.50 min
3	Andżelika Wójcik Kaja Ziomek Natalia Czerwonka	Poland	1: 25.37 min
4th	Tian Ruining Jin Jingzhu Zhao Xin	People's Republic of China	1: 26.80 min

Date: February 13, 2020

The 19-year-old junior Femke Kok led the Dutch team that defended the title they won last year. In total there were only four teams at the start.

Team tracking

space	Surname	country	time
1	Nana Takagi Ayano Satō Miho Takagi	Japan	2: 50.76 min
2	Melissa Wijfje Ireen Wüst Antoinette de Jong	Netherlands	2: 52.65 min
3	Ivanie Blondin Valérie Maltais Isabelle Weidemann	Canada	2: 53.62 min
4th	Yelisaveta Kaselina Yevgenia Lalenkova Natalia Voronina	Russia	2: 53.92 min
5	Karolina Bosiek Natalia Czerwonka Karolina Gąsecka	Poland	2: 59.24 min
6th	Brianna Bocox Mia Kilburg-Manganello Paige Schwartzburg	United States	2: 59.79 min
7th	Li Dan Tao Jiaying Zhou Yang	People's Republic of China	3: 01.57 min

Date: February 14, 2020

The three Japanese Nana Takagi , Ayano Satō and Miho Takagi had won in this discipline both last year at the World Cup and the 2018 Winter Olympics. After experiencing several defeats in the World Cup season, they won the World Championships with a world record time and a clear lead over the Dutch women, who, like in 2019, won the silver medal.

Men

500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	33.72 s
2	Ruslan Murashov	Russia	33.99 s
3	Tatsuya Shinhama	Japan	34.03 s
4th	Viktor Mushtakov	Russia	34.05 s
5	Daichi Yamanaka	Japan	34.06 s
6th	Laurent Dubreuil	Canada	34.12 s
7th	Cha Min-kyu	South Korea	34.21 s
8th	Kim Jun-ho	South Korea	34.26 s
9	Gao Tingyu	People's Republic of China	34.28 s
10	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	34.32 s

Date: February 14, 2020

Although he sustained a shoulder injury in the team sprint the day before, Pawel Kulischnikow won the 500-meter sprint with a margin of 0.27 seconds over his teammate Ruslan Muraschow . He also benefited from the draw: In contrast to Muraschow and the third-placed Tatsuya Shinhama , Kulischnikow started his race on the inside lane and finished it on the outside lane. On high-speed railways like Salt Lake City, this is seen as an advantage as it is difficult to corner at speeds up to 60 km / h.

1000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	1: 05.69 min
2	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1: 06.73 min
3	Laurent Dubreuil	Canada	1: 06.76 min
4th	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	1: 07.00 min
5	Masaya Yamada	Japan	1: 07.03 min
6th	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	1: 07.05 min
7th	Nico Ihle	Germany	1: 07.10 min
8th	Ruslan Murashov	Russia	1: 07.13 min
9	Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu	Canada	1: 07.25 min
10	Ihnat Halavazjuk	Belarus	1: 07.32 min

Date: February 15, 2020

One day after his victory over 500 meters, Pavel Kulischnikow also won over twice the distance. He was the first runner to run the 1000 meters faster than 1:06 minutes and had a lead of more than a second over Kjeld Nuis , who had previously held the world record. The third fastest Thomas Krol was disqualified because of the handicap of his fellow traveler Viktor Muschtakow , Laurent Dubreuil moved up to the bronze rank .

1500 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1: 41.66 min
2	Thomas Krol	Netherlands	1: 41.73 min
3	Joey Mantia	United States	1: 42.16 min
4th	Ning Zhongyan	People's Republic of China	1: 42.33 min
5	Denis Yuskov	Russia	1: 42.34 min
6th	Seitaro Ichinohe	Japan	1: 42.36 min
7th	Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu	Canada	1: 42.55 min
8th	Sindre Henriksen	Norway	1: 43.34 min
9	Tyson Langelaar	Canada	1: 43.39 min
10	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	1: 43.62 min
10	Patrick Roest	Netherlands	1: 43.62 min

Date: February 16, 2020

The Olympic champion over the distance Kjeld Nuis had not been able to qualify for the individual distance World Championships due to illness and received a wildcard from the Dutch association. He beat his compatriot Thomas Krol by seven hundredths of a second, and Joey Mantia won bronze in a personal best - for the US team, Mantia's medal was the only one at the home world championships.

5000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	6:04:37 min
2	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6: 04.91 min
3	Graeme Fish	Canada	6: 06.32 min
4th	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	6: 11.80 min
5	Jordan Belchos	Canada	6: 12.07 min
6th	Patrick Beckert	Germany	6: 12.12 min
7th	Davide Ghiotto	Italy	6: 12.51 min
8th	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	6: 13.42 min
9	Ruslan Sakharov	Russia	6: 14.06 min
10	Timothy Loubineaud	France	6: 14.96 min

Date: February 13, 2020

In the third of ten pairs, Sven Kramer was the first favorite to run a time of 6: 04.91 minutes, which was ultimately enough for the silver medal. Only Ted-Jan Bloemen was half a second faster, which his trainer Bart Schouten was surprised at in view of Bloemen's preliminary work. In the ninth duel, Graeme Fish was slightly faster than Patrick Roest and won the bronze medal; Roest, originally placed fourth, was disqualified after the competition because he had not worn the required armband.

10,000 meters

space	Surname	country	time
1	Graeme Fish	Canada	12: 33.86 min
2	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	12: 45.01 min
3	Patrick Beckert	Germany	12: 47.93 min
4th	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12: 48.45 min
5	Ryosuke Tsuchiya	Japan	12: 55.62 min
6th	Davide Ghiotto	Italy	12: 58.30 min
7th	Timothy Loubineaud	France	12: 58.97 min
8th	Patrick Roest	Netherlands	13: 03.90 min
9	Peter Michael	New Zealand	13: 19.72 min

Date: February 14, 2020

Graeme Fish from Canada improved the 2015 world record set by Ted-Jan Bloemen by around two and a half seconds and won the gold medal ahead of his compatriot. This is the first time in the 24-year history of the individual distance world championships that a Dutchman has not become the 10,000 meter world champion. Bronze went to Patrick Beckert , who also ran a personal best and a national record.

Mass start

space	Surname	country	Points	time
1	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	60	7: 39.49 min
2	Jordan Belchos	Canada	40	7: 39.79 min
3	Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu	Canada	24	7: 40.27 min
4th	Vital Michajlau	Belarus	14th	7: 40.37 min
5	Joey Mantia	United States	6th	7: 41.81 min
6th	Artur Janicki	Poland	5	7: 45.69 min
7th	Haralds Silovs	Latvia	5	7: 48.73 min
8th	Chung Jae-won	South Korea	3	7: 41.96 min
9	Ryosuke Tsuchiya	Japan		7: 42.06 min
10	Ruslan Sakharov	Russia		7: 42.33 min

Date: February 16, 2020

Four laps before the end of the race, Jorrit Bergsma caught up with a four-man breakaway group. In the final lap he led the race and crossed the finish line first, ahead of Jordan Belchos and Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu .

Team sprint

space	Surname	country	time
1	Dai Dai Ntab Kai Verbij Thomas Krol	Netherlands	1: 18.18 min
2	Gao Tingyu Wang Shiwei Ning Zhongyan	People's Republic of China	1: 18.53 min
3	Bjørn Magnussen Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Odin By Farstad	Norway	1: 19.54 min
4th	Yuma Murakami Yamato Matsui Masaya Yamada	Japan	1: 19.59 min
5	Oliver Grob Christian Oberbichler Livio Wenger	Switzerland	1: 20.03 min
6th	Artur Galijew Stanislaw Palkin Alexander Klenko	Kazakhstan	1: 20.39 min
	Ruslan Muraschow Viktor Muschtakow Pavel Kulischnikow	Russia	DNF

Date: February 13, 2020

The fastest time in 1: 17.63 minutes was the Canadian trio Gilmore Junio , Laurent Dubreuil and Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu , who were disqualified due to an incorrect substitution. Instead, the Dutch sprinters won the race ahead of the Chinese and Norwegians.

Team tracking

space	Surname	country	time
1	Sven Kramer Marcel Bosker Douwe de Vries	Netherlands	3: 34.68 min
2	Seitaro Ichinohe Ryosuke Tsuchiya Shane Williamson	Japan	3: 36.41 min
3	Sergei Trofimov Ruslan Sakharov Danila Semerikov	Russia	3: 37.24 min
4th	Ted-Jan Bloemen Jordan Belchos Tyson Langelaar	Canada	3: 38.27 min
5	Emery Lehmann Ethan Cepuran Ian Quinn	United States	3: 38.51 min
6th	Andrea Giovannini Nicola Tumolero Michele Malfatti	Italy	3: 38.96 min
7th	Sverre Lunde Pedersen Hallgeir Engebråten Håvard Bøkko	Norway	3: 41.22 min
8th	Peter Michael Josh Whyte Kierryn Hughes	New Zealand	3: 44.78 min

Date: February 15, 2020

After his disappointing performances over 5000 meters and 10,000 meters, the Dutch coach Jan Coopmans decided not to use Patrick Roest and instead called Marcel Bosker into the team around Sven Kramer and Douwe de Vries . The Dutch won the team pursuit for the seventh time in a row, relegating the Japanese and the Russians to second and third place.

Web links

• Results on speedskatingnews.info
• Results on isuresults.eu/ complete protocol of all individual results
• ISU press releases:
  • Men seek to break magic barriers on fastest ice of the planet on isu.org, February 13, 2020
  • Salt Lake City: maiden titles and records at stake in Ladies' Speed ​​Skating tournament on isu.org, February 13, 2020
  • Maiden title for Bloemen, 21st for Sáblíková on isu.org, February 13, 2020
  • Fish nets world record as Japan's ladies dominate day 2 at the worlds on isu.org, February 14, 2020
  • Voronina and Kulizhnikov blow away rivals on isu.org, February 15, 2020
  • Redemption for Bergsma and Nuis in double Dutch success on isu.org, February 16, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Fish nets world record as Japan's ladies dominate day 2 at the worlds on isu.org, February 14, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Voronina and Kulizhnikov blow away rivals on isu.org, February 15, 2020.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Redemption for Bergsma and Nuis in double Dutch success on isu.org, February 16, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Maiden title for Bloemen, 21st for Sáblíková on isu.org, February 13, 2020.
5. ↑ Guillaume Piedboeuf: Une disqualification coûte l'or à Laurent Dubreuil aux Mondiaux de patinage de vitesse on ici.radio-canada.ca. February 14, 2020.