World speed skating championship 1990

The 48th all- around world championship for women was held on February 10 and 11, 1990 on the Olympic Oval in Calgary , Canada . Which found separated therefrom 84th all-around world championship of men a week later, on 17 and 18 February 1990 at the Olympic Ice Stadium in Austrian Innsbruck instead. The two world championship titles went to the German Jacqueline Börner and the Norwegian Johann Olav Koss .

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-around event consisted of 26 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   
• 3 starters: Canada 
• 2 starters: Japan ↑, United States ↓↓  
• 1 starter: Federal Republic of Germany ↑, Italy ↓, Norway , Austria , Poland ↓, Sweden , People's Republic of China ↑       

Athletes from France and New Zealand were no longer represented compared to the previous year. Overall, the field was three participants smaller than in 1989.

Men

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

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

Athletes from Greece were no longer represented compared to the previous year. Overall, the field was one participant larger than in 1989.

competition

Women

For the ninth year in a row, Jacqueline Börner, a speed skater from the German Democratic Republic, won the world title in the all- around competition. Börner beat the Japanese Seiko Hashimoto and her teammate and last year's winner Constanze Moser by less than one point. With Gunda Kleemann , another GDR runner was well in the race after two distances, but was disqualified over 1500 meters due to the disability of her fellow runner Wang Xiuli .

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	Jacqueline Borner	41.66 s (8)	4: 19.86 min (1)	2: 04.54 min (4)	7: 31.51 min (4)	171.634
02	Seiko Hashimoto	40.22 s (1)	4: 28.66 min (10)	2: 03.80 min (2)	7: 37.75 min (10)	172.037
03	Constanze Moser	41.62 s (7)	4: 27.59 min (8)	2: 03.91 min (3)	7: 29.88 min (3)	172.509
04th	Herma Emmens-Meijer	41.09 s (2)	4: 27.62 min (9)	2: 05.98 min (6)	7: 37.65 min (9)	173.451
05	Heike Schalling	43.05 s (21)	4: 21.61 min (3)	2: 06.95 min (10)	7: 28.37 min (1)	173.804
06th	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	41.84 s (10)	4: 27.53 min (7)	2: 06.46 min (8)	7: 33.34 min (8)	173.915
07th	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	42.88 s (19)	4: 23.39 min (4)	2: 07.80 min (13)	7: 28.75 min (2)	174.253
08th	Lia van Schie	42.74 s (16)	4: 25.84 min (5)	2: 06.27 min (7)	7: 31.99 min (5)	174.335
09	Wang Xiuli	41.25 s (4)	4: 32.21 min (18)	2: 03.34 min (1)	7: 52.46 min (15)	174.977
10	Emese Nemeth-Hunyady	41.85 s (11)	4: 29.68 min (12)	2: 05.90 min (5)	7: 47.72 min (13)	175.534
11	Natsue Seki	42.46 s (13)	4: 30.54 min (14)	2: 07.89 min (14)	7: 41.52 min (11)	176.332
12	Hanneke de Vries	44.32 s (23)	4: 26.07 min (6)	2: 09.56 min (21)	7: 32.53 min (7)	177.104
13	Jelena Lapuga-Konotopowa	42.75 s (17)	4: 31.62 min (16)	2: 07.59 min (11)	7: 47.00 min (12)	177,250
14th	Svetlana Schurowa-Boiko	44.39 s (24)	4: 30.27 min (13)	2: 09.34 min (20)	7: 32.14 min (6)	177.762
15th	Moira d'Andrea	55.58 s (25)	4: 30.63 min (15)	2: 07.93 min (15)	7: 48.80 min (14)	190.208
16	Sandra Voetelink	1: 01.62 min (26)	4: 29.23 min (11)	2: 07.66 min (12)	7: 58.24 min (16)	196.868

Men

For the first time the Norwegian Johann Olav Koss became world champion in four-way combat. He prevailed against four Dutchmen, who together occupied places two to five. Silver went to Ben van der Burg , bronze went to Bart Veldkamp , who was the fastest on the two long distances of 5000 meters and 10,000 meters, each with a lead of several seconds.

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	Johann Olav Koss	38.86 s (11)	7:00 am (2)	1: 57.19 min (3)	14: 42.52 min (3)	164.099
02	Ben van der Burg	38.79 s (7)	7:01:13 min (3)	1: 56.23 min (1)	14: 56.87 min (5)	164.489
03	Bart Veldkamp	39.72 s (22)	6: 56.82 min (1)	1: 58.36 min (6)	14: 35.87 min (1)	164.648
04th	Gerard Kemkers	38.51 s (4)	7: 05.85 min (4)	1: 58.19 min (4)	14: 59.60 min (6)	165.471
05	Thomas Bos	39.66 s (21)	7: 08.57 min (5)	1: 58.40 min (7)	14: 56.67 min (4)	166.816
06th	Geir Karlstad	39.82 s (23)	7: 13.01 min (6)	1: 59.08 min (9)	14: 42.34 min (2)	166.931
07th	Michael Hadschieff	38.61 s (5)	7: 15.07 min (9)	1: 58.35 min (5)	15: 10.82 min (8)	167.108
08th	Joakim Karlberg	39.28 s (18)	7: 14.10 min (8)	1: 58.65 min (8)	15: 17.14 min (10)	168.097
09	Danny Kah	40.01 s (26)	7: 13.17 min (7)	2:00:04 min (11)	15: 02.30 min (7)	168.455
10	Ådne Søndrål	38.06 s (2)	7: 21.23 min (19)	1: 56.99 min (2)	15: 53.42 min (16)	168.850
11	Tomas Gustafson	39.22 s (16)	7: 18.04 min (12)	2: 00.67 min (16)	15: 25.02 min (11)	169.498
12	Georg Herda	38.82 s (9)	7: 19.51 min (15)	2:01.07 min (17)	15: 42.61 min (14)	170.257
13	Kazuhiro Satō	40.41 s (30)	7: 16.76 min (11)	2: 01.32 min (20)	15: 14.65 min (9)	170.258
14th	Masahiko Omura	39.23 s (17)	7: 19.47 min (14)	2:00, 13 min (12)	15: 48.41 min (15)	170.640
15th	Christian Eminger	40.82 s (33)	7: 15.37 min (10)	2: 00.52 min (15)	15: 26.91 min (12)	170.875
16	Frank Dittrich	40.45 s (31)	7: 18.51 min (13)	2: 02.69 min (31)	15: 38.22 min (13)	172.108

Web links

• Results of the all-around world championship 1990 on speedskatingnews.info: women and men

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann: I want. The New Berlin 2000, p. 69.