World speed skating championship 1989

The 47th all- around world championship for women was held on February 4th and 5th, 1989 on the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink in Lake Placid , USA . Which found separated therefrom 83. Mehrkampf World Cup men a week later, on 11 and 12 February 1989 at the Valle Hovin Kunstisbane in Norwegian Oslo instead. The two world championship titles went to the German Constanze Moser and the Dutchman Leo Visser .

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-round competition consisted of 29 female athletes from 13 nations. The arrows indicate how the team size of a country has changed compared to the previous edition .

• 4 starters: German Democratic Republic ↑, Netherlands , Soviet Union , United States ↑    
• 3 starters: Canada 
• 2 starters: Italy ↑, Poland ↑  
• 1 starter: France ↑, Japan ↓, New Zealand , Norway , Austria , Sweden ↓      

Athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany and Finland were no longer represented compared to the previous year. Overall, the field was one participant larger than in 1988.

Men

36 athletes from 18 nations started in the men's all-around competition.

• 4 starters: Japan ↑, United States  
• 3 starters: Canada ↑, Netherlands ↓, Austria , Soviet Union ↓    
• 2 starters: German Democratic Republic , FR Germany ↑, Italy ↑, Norway ↓↓    
• 1 starter: Australia , Finland ↓, Greece ↑, Poland , Sweden , Switzerland , South Korea ↓, Czechoslovakia        

Compared to the previous year, athletes from France, Mongolia and Hungary were no longer represented. Overall, the field was four participants smaller than in 1988.

competition

Women

Constanze Moser won her first international title at temperatures of around –30 ° C. She placed in front of her Erfurt club colleague Gunda Kleemann , who also won her first World Cup medal. The Dutch triple Olympic champion from 1988, Yvonne van Gennip, came third in the overall ranking .

The following table shows the 16 best placed athletes in the overall ranking of the all-around world championships who have qualified for the final over 5000 meters. The number in brackets indicates the position per individual route, the fastest time in each case is printed in bold.

rank	Surname	500 meters	3000 meters	1500 meters	5000 meters	Total points
01	Constanze Moser	43.33 s (3)	4: 39.56 min (1)	2: 10.91 min (2)	7: 58.30 min (2)	181,389
02	Gunda Kleemann	44.19 s (10)	4: 41.72 min (4)	2: 11.16 min (3)	7: 58.23 min (1)	182.686
03	Yvonne van Gennip	43.59 s (6)	4: 42.52 min (6)	2: 13.10 min (7)	7: 59.92 min (3)	183.034
04th	Mary Docter	44.78 s (18)	4: 42.29 min (5)	2: 12.59 min (4)	8:00 am (4)	184.099
05	Jacqueline Borner	44.33 s (13)	4: 41.00 min (3)	2: 12.60 min (5)	8: 08.60 min (6)	184.223
06th	Seiko Hashimoto	42.59 s (1)	4: 49.15 min (13)	2: 12.65 min (6)	8: 15.57 min (10)	184.554
07th	Lyudmila Titowa-Morozova	44.42 s (14)	4: 43.59 min (7)	2: 13.46 min (8)	8: 13.00 min (7)	185.471
08th	Heike Schalling	45.51 s (20)	4: 40.36 min (2)	2: 16.04 min (16)	8:00 am (5)	185.674
09	Marieke Stam	43.43 s (4)	4: 49.08 min (11)	2: 14.34 min (11)	8: 16.30 min (11)	186.020
10	Jelena Lapuga	44.68 s (17)	4: 49.14 min (12)	2: 10.23 min (1)	8: 18.31 min (12)	186.111
11	Herma Emmens-Meijer	43.51 s (5)	4: 48.95 min (9)	2: 15.10 min (13)	8: 18.54 min (13)	186.555
12	Erwina Rys-Ferens	44.63 s (16)	4: 49.03 min (10)	2: 14.23 min (9)	8: 22.43 min (14)	187.787
13	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	45.51 s (20)	4: 45.26 min (8)	2: 16.70 min (18)	8: 13.42 min (9)	187,961
14th	Elena Tumanova	45.76 s (24)	4: 49.20 min (14)	2: 14.26 min (10)	8: 13.03 min (8)	188.016
15th	Irina Bogatova	44.25 s (11)	4: 52.05 min (16)	2: 15.86 min (15)	8: 29.16 min (16)	189.127
16	Petra Moolhuizen	45.76 s (24)	4: 49.76 min (15)	2: 16.11 min (17)	8: 25.28 min (15)	189,951

Men

22 years after the success of Kees Verkerk and Ard Schenk at the all- around world championships in 1967 there was another double victory for the Netherlands: As in the previous European championship , Leo Visser prevailed ahead of Gerard Kemkers and Geir Karlstad from Norway won the bronze medal. Defending champion Eric Flaim missed the podium in fourth.

The following table shows the 16 best placed athletes in the overall ranking of the all-around world championships who qualified for the final over 10,000 meters. The number in brackets indicates the position per individual route, the fastest time in each case is printed in bold.

rank	Surname	500 meters	5000 meters	1500 meters	10,000 meters	Total points
01	Leo Visser	39.48 s (14)	7: 03.52 min (1)	2: 00.06 min (1)	14: 36.93 min (2)	165.698
02	Gerard Kemkers	39.71 s (19)	7: 09.41 min (4)	2: 01.70 min (7)	14: 37.69 min (3)	167.101
03	Geir Karlstad	40.41 s (25)	7: 09.26 min (3)	2: 01.80 min (8)	14: 33.72 min (1)	167.622
04th	Eric Flaim	38.36 s (2)	7: 17.57 min (11)	2:01.99 min (9)	15: 05.58 min (9)	168.059
05	Michael Spielmann	39.53 s (15)	7: 14.83 min (14)	2: 01.45 min (5)	14: 52.12 min (4)	168.102
06th	Toru Aoyanagi	38.48 s (4)	7: 20.59 min (19)	2: 03.21 min (13)	15:08:12 min (11)	169.015
07th	Christian Eminger	40.32 s (24)	7: 13.81 min (6)	2: 01.39 min (4)	14: 59.00 min (6)	169.114
08th	Johann Olav Koss	39.57 s (16)	7: 16.02 min (9)	2: 00.48 min (2)	15: 30.13 min (15)	169.838
09	Michael Hadschieff	39.10 s (6)	7: 15.95 min (8)	2: 02.20 min (10)	15: 29.20 min (14)	169.888
10	Bart Veldkamp	40.73 s (30)	7:09:25 min (2)	2: 04.47 min (19)	14: 58.18 min (5)	170.054
11	Ildar Garayev	39.75 s (21)	7: 18.05 min (13)	2: 01.18 min (3)	15: 32.42 min (16)	170.569
12	Munehisa Kuroiwa	39.44 s (12)	7: 19.04 min (15)	2:05:02 min (25)	15: 11.93 min (12)	170.613
13	Kazuhiro Satō	40.80 s (31)	7: 11.68 min (5)	2: 06.60 min (32)	15:02.07 min (8)	171.271
14th	Rudolf Jeklic	41.17 s (32)	7: 16.07 min (10)	2: 05.89 min (29)	15:06, 14 min (10)	172.047
15th	Roberto Sighel	42.19 s (33)	7: 17.74 min (12)	2: 03.42 min (15)	15:01.09 min (7)	172.158
16	Jaromir Radke	42.25 s (34)	7:18.12 min (14)	2: 04.50 min (20)	15: 23.49 min (13)	173.736

Web links

• Results of the all-around world championship 1989 on speedskatingnews.info: women and men

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Gundel: Historia: The cheated temperature on speedskatingnews.info. November 9, 2004.