Speed skating all around world championship 1966
The 24th all-around world championship for women was held on February 12th and 13th, 1966 at Øya Stadium in Trondheim , Norway . Which found separated therefrom Men 60th all-around world championship on 19 and 20 February 1966 at the Ullevi in Swedish Gothenburg instead.
In the women's category, Valentina Stenina continued the 15-year winning streak of the Soviet speed skaters, but only overtook North Korean Kim Song-soon , who was the first Asian woman to win a World Cup medal, in the final 5000 meter race . The men's competition ended in adverse conditions with a Dutch double victory for Kees Verkerk and Ard Schenk . Verkerk won three of four legs.
Participating Nations
- Women
The field of participants in the women's all-around event consisted of 35 female athletes from 15 nations.
- 5 starters: Soviet Union
- 4 starters: Netherlands ↑↑, People's Republic of China ↑↑
- 3 starters: Finland
- 2 starters: FR Germany ↑, German Democratic Republic ↓, Japan ↑, North Korea ↓↓, Norway , Poland ↑, Sweden ↓↓, United States ↑↑
- 1 starter: Australia ↑, France ↑, Hungary ↑
Athletes from Canada were no longer represented compared to the previous edition . Overall, the field was five participants larger than in 1965.
- Men
The field of participants in the men's all-around competition consisted of 37 athletes from 15 nations.
- 5 starters: Netherlands , Norway
- 4 starters: Soviet Union
- 3 starters: People's Republic of China ↑, Finland , Sweden ↓
- 2 starters: BR Germany ↓, German Democratic Republic ↑, France , Canada , United States
- 1 starter: Italy ↓, Japan , Austria , Switzerland ↑
Compared to the previous edition, athletes from Mongolia, North Korea and Hungary were no longer represented. Overall, the field was six participants smaller than in 1965.
competition
Women
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Since 1952, the speed skaters of the Soviet Union had dominated the all-around world championships and occupied at least the first two places. The last two title winners, however, were not at the start: Lidija Skoblikowa has been on maternity leave since her four-time Olympic victory in 1964 and the previous year's world champion Inga Woronina was stabbed by her husband in January 1966. The last representative of the successful Soviet generation remained the Belarusian Valentina Stenina , who had also won the World Cup twice - in 1960 and 1961 - and was the oldest starter in the field at the age of 31. Third in the 1965 World Cup, Stien Kaiser was in the focus of Dutch observers.
After the Soviet runners had set their best in the 500-meter sprint, North Korean Kim Song-soon surprised with the fastest time over 1500 meters, with which she also took the overall lead after the first day - when the temperatures in Trondheim dropped to −17 Degrees dropped - took over. Kim had already achieved top ten results at the Olympic Games and previous world championships, but had never won a medal. On Sunday the North Korean defended her lead after the third sub-discipline, the 1000-meter run, before falling behind Belarusian Stenina in the final 5000-meter run. Stenina won her third world title and extended the Soviet Union's winning streak, while Kim was the first - and until 1990 the only - Asian woman to win an all-around world championship medal. Behind them, Stien Kaiser moved up to bronze with the fastest 5000 meter time. Kaiser, who was already far behind in the overall standings after the 500-meter start, set a new national record and missed the world record held by Inga Woronina by only six tenths of a second.
In retrospect, the German sports journalist Karl Adolf Scherer highlighted on the one hand the increasing performance of the 15-year-old West German Hildegard Sellhuber (who ran the German record over 1000 meters, but clearly missed the final of the best 16), but saw above all the upcoming " End of Soviet domination ”, which could possibly be broken by a Korean woman, possibly Stien Kaiser. In fact, Kaiser won the subsequent world championships in 1967 and 1968 , while only two of the following ten world titles went to Soviet runners.
The following table shows the best 16 participants in the overall ranking. Only these athletes were qualified for the final 3,000 meter race. The best individual route results are printed in bold. The placement on the respective individual route is given in brackets.
rank | Surname | 500 meters | Pt. | 1,500 meters | Pt. | 1,000 meters | Pt. | 3,000 meters | Pt. | Total pts. |
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1 |
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47.7 (3) | 47,700 | 2: 31.5 (3) | 50,500 | 1: 36.3 (3) | 48.150 | 5: 08.3 (2) | 51,383 | 197.733 |
2 |
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47.9 (4) | 47,900 | 2: 29.4 (1) | 49,800 | 1: 36.2 (2) | 48,100 | 5: 14.6 (5) | 52.433 | 198.233 |
3 |
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49.5 (20) | 49,500 | 2: 31.4 (2) | 50.467 | 1: 36.3 (3) | 48.150 | 5: 06.6 (1) | 51,100 | 199.216 |
4th |
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46.9 (1) | 46,900 | 2: 33.6 (5) | 51.200 | 1: 37.4 (10) | 48,700 | 5: 19.2 (7) | 53,200 | 200,000 |
5 |
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49.0 (13) | 49,000 | 2: 31.9 (4) | 50.633 | 1: 37.1 (8) | 48,550 | 5: 12.8 (4) | 52.133 | 200.316 |
6th |
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48.7 (11) | 48,700 | 2: 34.3 (6) | 51,433 | 1: 37.3 (9) | 48.650 | 5: 10.9 (3) | 51.817 | 200.599 |
7th |
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48.2 (7) | 48,200 | 2: 34.9 (8) | 51.633 | 1: 36.7 (7) | 48,350 | 5: 20.6 (8) | 53,433 | 201.616 |
8th |
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48.8 (12) | 48,800 | 2: 35.8 (10) | 51.933 | 1: 35.9 (1) | 47,950 | 5: 21.4 (9) | 53.567 | 202.249 |
9 |
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48.5 (8) | 48,500 | 2: 34.6 (7) | 51,533 | 1: 38.6 (11) | 49,300 | 5: 19.2 (6) | 53.150 | 202.483 |
10 |
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48.6 (9) | 48,600 | 2: 36.4 (11) | 52.133 | 1: 38.8 (12) | 49,400 | 5: 25.8 (11) | 54,300 | 204.433 |
11 |
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48.1 (6) | 48,100 | 2: 37.4 (13) | 52.467 | 1: 39.2 (14) | 49,600 | 5: 26.7 (12) | 54,450 | 204.616 |
12 |
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49.2 (16) | 49.200 | 2: 35.3 (9) | 51.767 | 1: 36.4 (5) | 48,200 | 5: 33.8 (15) | 55.633 | 204.799 |
13 |
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49.2 (16) | 49.200 | 2: 38.9 (15) | 52.967 | 1: 40.0 (16) | 50,000 | 5: 29.4 (14) | 54,900 | 207.066 |
14th |
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49.3 (18) | 49,300 | 2: 38.9 (15) | 52.967 | 1: 40.7 (18) | 50,350 | 5: 28.6 (13) | 54.767 | 207.382 |
15th |
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49.6 (22) | 49,600 | 2: 38.8 (14) | 52.933 | 1: 41.3 (23) | 50.650 | 5: 35.6 (16) | 55.933 | 209.116 |
16 |
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58.4 (35) | 58,400 | 2: 36.4 (11) | 52.133 | 1: 39.0 (13) | 49,500 | 5: 24.2 (10) | 54.033 | 214.066 |
Men
The men's speed skating scene was international in the early 1960s. Reigning world champion was the Norwegian Per Ivar Moe . With the Swede Jonny Nilsson and the Russian Viktor Kossitschkin two other runners were on the list of participants who had already won the world championship. Two weeks before the world championship, Moe's compatriot Fred Anton Maier had improved the world record for the longest run distance from 10,000 meters to 15: 32.2 minutes in an international match in Oslo and at the same time also set a world point record in the all- around event . In the same competition just behind Maier was the 21-year-old Dutchman Ard Schenk , who had recently won the European championship held in Deventer in January . Schenk as well as the European Championship runner-up Kees Verkerk benefited from the fact that a lot had been invested in speed skating in the Netherlands since the early 1960s - including the construction of the artificial ice rink in Deventer, where the European championship had taken place.
The competition took place in the Ullevi football stadium, which was prepared with artificial ice, in front of a crowd of 40,000, including many guests from Norway and the Netherlands. In the opening 500 meter ice sprint, the specialists in particular showed their strengths: the fastest was the American Thomas Gray in 40.9 seconds, followed by the Japanese Suzuki and the West German Erhard Keller , who set the only national record in 41.6 seconds of the competition. All three athletes played no role on the longer distances and dropped out of the championship early. Ard Schenk took over the clear lead at halftime after the 5000 meter race, making him the top favorite after the first day. On the second day of the competition, the event was dominated by a blow-dryer: Fog and mild temperatures made conditions difficult, the ice became softer and harder to walk on. From these circumstances, Kees Verkerk, who was considered to be “more robust”, benefited from Schenk, whose aesthetic running style made him equally susceptible to adverse conditions as did Fred Anton Maier, who was also initially promising. Verkerk won - after the best time over 5000 meters - the two final races over 1500 meters and 10,000 meters with a clear lead, which made him the clear world champion despite his initial deficit from the 500-meter sprint. Ard Schenk completed the media-celebrated Dutch double victory ahead of the Swede Jonny Nilsson.
With the triumphs of the two friends Kees Verkerk and Ard Schenk - who were later jointly named Sportsman of the Year in the Netherlands - in the winter of 1965/66, an extremely successful period of Dutch speed skating began, which lasted until the 1970s. The German sports journalist Scherer stated that in the victories of the Dutch, the athletes from Norway, Sweden, Finland and above all "the Russians used to win" fell by the wayside, who for the first time since their first World Cup appearance were completely without a podium result on an individual route left. From a German point of view, Gerhard Zimmermann convinced with a ninth place overall, which entitled to more starting places at other major events. For Austria, the endurance specialist Hermann Strutz reached the final of the best sixteen athletes, in which, however, he finished last.
The following table shows the best 16 participants in the overall ranking. Only these athletes were qualified for the final 10,000 meter race. The best individual route results are printed in bold. The placement on the respective individual route is given in brackets.
rank | Surname | 500 meters | Pt. | 5,000 meters | Pt. | 1,500 meters | Pt. | 10,000 meters | Pt. | Total pts. |
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1 |
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43.0 (20) | 43,000 | 7: 42.8 (1) | 46.280 | 2: 12.9 (1) | 44,300 | 16: 21.6 (1) | 49.080 | 182.660 |
2 |
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41.6 (3) | 41,600 | 7: 43.9 (3) | 46.390 | 2: 15.4 (5) | 45.133 | 16: 47.5 (4) | 50.375 | 183.498 |
3 |
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43.7 (24) | 43,700 | 7: 45.9 (5) | 46,590 | 2: 14.5 (2) | 44.833 | 16: 32.2 (2) | 49.610 | 184.733 |
4th |
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43.3 (22) | 43,300 | 7: 45.7 (4) | 46,570 | 2: 15.6 (7) | 45,200 | 16: 38.4 (3) | 49.920 | 184.990 |
5 |
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42.8 (17) | 42,800 | 7: 50.0 (7) | 47,000 | 2: 15.0 (3) | 45,000 | 16: 47.9 (5) | 50.395 | 185.195 |
6th |
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42.3 (8) | 42,300 | 7: 46.5 (6) | 46.650 | 2: 16.1 (8) | 45.367 | 17: 02.2 (8) | 51.110 | 185.426 |
7th |
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43.2 (21) | 43,200 | 7: 43.2 (2) | 46,320 | 2: 16.5 (11) | 45,500 | 17: 02.3 (9) | 51.115 | 186.135 |
8th |
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43.3 (22) | 43,300 | 7: 56.0 (11) | 47,600 | 2: 15.2 (4) | 45,067 | 16: 53.0 (6) | 50.650 | 186.616 |
9 |
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42.9 (18) | 42,900 | 7: 55.9 (10) | 47,590 | 2: 16.8 (14) | 45,600 | 17: 09.6 (11) | 51,480 | 187,570 |
10 |
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42.3 (8) | 42,300 | 7: 51.3 (8) | 47.130 | 2: 16.5 (11) | 45,500 | 17: 35.6 (14) | 52.780 | 187.710 |
11 |
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42.4 (12) | 42,400 | 7: 54.3 (9) | 47,430 | 2: 17.3 (15) | 45.767 | 17: 24.1 (13) | 52.205 | 187,801 |
12 |
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44.3 (26) | 44,300 | 7: 56.2 (12) | 47.620 | 2: 15.4 (5) | 45.133 | 17: 00.6 (7) | 51.030 | 188.083 |
13 |
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42.7 (16) | 42,700 | 7: 56.2 (12) | 47.620 | 2: 20.6 (20) | 46.867 | 17: 08.6 (10) | 51,430 | 188.616 |
14th |
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44.4 (28) | 44,400 | 7: 58.3 (15) | 47.830 | 2: 18.3 (17) | 46.100 | 17: 18.4 (12) | 51.920 | 190.250 |
15th |
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46.5 (36) | 46,500 | 7: 57.2 (14) | 47.720 | 2: 16.2 (9) | 45,400 | 17: 41.8 (15) | 53.090 | 192.710 |
16 |
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45.2 (32) | 45,200 | 7: 58.6 (16) | 47.860 | 2: 25.7 (32) | 48,567 | 17: 44.7 (16) | 53.235 | 194,861 |
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Grandioze rit op 3000 meters brings Stien Kaiser brons . In: Leidse Courant (February 14, 1966).
- ↑ a b c d Karl Adolf Scherer : Balance in speed skating . In: German Olympic Society (Hrsg.): Olympic fire . Issue 4, April 1966. pp. 15-17.
- ↑ Verkerk troeft Schenk af in Zweden on nos.nl. Released January 22, 2017. Accessed March 26, 2020.
- ↑ a b Verkerk en Schenk were onbetwist de sterksten ter wereld in Gothenburg . In: Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (February 21, 1966).
- ^ Knut Bjørnsen (1968): Fred A. Maier , Oslo: Aschehoug. P. 74