World speed skating championship in 1991

The 49th all- around world championship for women was held on February 2nd and 3rd, 1991 in the Hamar Stadium in Hamar , Norway . Separately from this, the 85th Men's All- Around World Championship took place a week later, on February 9 and 10, 1991, in Thialf in Heerenveen , the Netherlands . The two world championship titles went to the German Gunda Kleemann and the Norwegian Johann Olav Koss .

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-round competition consisted of 31 female athletes from 15 nations. The arrows indicate how the team size of a country has changed compared to the previous edition .

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

Overall, the field was five participants larger than in 1990.

Men

40 athletes from 20 nations started in the men's all-around competition.

• 4 starters: Germany ¹ , Japan , Netherlands , Norway ↑    
• 3 starters: Austria , Sweden ↑  
• 2 starters: Australia , Poland ↑, South Korea ↑, United States    
• 1 starter: Finland , France ↑, Italy , Canada , Romania ↑, Switzerland , Soviet Union ↓↓↓, Czechoslovakia , Hungary ↑, United Kingdom ↑          

In comparison to the previous year, athletes from the People's Republic of China were no longer represented. Overall, the field was three participants larger than in 1990.

¹ In 1990 the team from the Federal Republic of Germany consisted of one woman and two men and the team of the German Democratic Republic of four women and three men.

competition

Women

In the absence of the defending champion Jacqueline Börner , who was hit by a car in August 1990 and was in advanced training, Gunda Kleemann won her first world championship title and prevailed with a clear lead over her Erike Warnicke club colleague . The bronze medal went to Lia van Schie from the Netherlands.

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	1500 meters	3000 meters	5000 meters	Total points
01	Gunda Kleemann	42.47 s (4)	4: 32.00 min (1)	2: 09.45 min (1)	7: 43.10 min (1)	177.263
02	Heike Warnicke	44.37 s (17)	4: 38.70 min (2)	2: 12.42 min (3)	7: 53.64 min (2)	182,324
03	Lia van Schie	44.27 s (16)	4: 40.62 min (3)	2: 13.01 min (6)	7: 59.02 min (5)	183.278
04th	Seiko Hashimoto	41.95 s (2)	4: 50.81 min (17)	2: 12.68 min (5)	8: 07.19 min (8)	183,363
05	Yvonne van Gennip	44.62 s (21)	4: 43.45 min (6)	2: 12.50 min (4)	7: 57.90 min (4)	183.817
06th	Svetlana Schurowa-Boiko	45.15 s (26)	4: 41.60 min (4)	2: 14.55 min (7)	7: 54.39 min (3)	184.372
07th	Ulrike Adeberg	44.14 s (13)	4: 42.48 min (5)	2: 14.85 min (9)	8: 03.29 min (6)	184.499
08th	Natalia Poloskova	42.73 s (6)	4: 47.84 min (11)	2: 14.56 min (8)	8: 18.93 min (14)	185.449
09	Carla Zijlstra	45.12 s (25)	4: 44.24 min (7)	2: 15.08 min (10)	8: 05.40 min (7)	186.059
10	Else Ragni Yttredal	43.86 s (10)	4: 45.22 min (9)	2: 15.22 min (11)	8: 16.10 min (12)	186.079
11	Mihaela Dascălu	44.22 s (15)	4: 48.15 min (12)	2: 15.25 min (12)	8: 14.88 min (10)	186.816
12	Yumi Kaeriyama	44.45 s (18)	4: 49.05 min (13)	2: 15.80 min (15)	8: 15.56 min (11)	187,447
13	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	44.54 s (19)	4: 46.98 min (10)	2: 16.96 min (18)	8: 16.66 min (13)	187.689
14th	Jelena Banadissenko-Mamayeva	44.58 s (20)	4: 49.97 min (16)	2: 16.31 min (16)	8: 23.25 min (15)	188.619
15th	Ye Qiaobo	41.85 s (1)	4: 54.95 min (20)	2: 15.34 min (13)	9: 05.71 min (16)	190.692
16	Emese Hunyady	52.09 s (31)	4: 44.51 min (8)	2: 11.52 min (2)	8: 07.43 min (9)	192.091

Men

Last year's Norwegian winner Johann Olav Koss ran world records on the two long distances of 5000 meters and 10,000 meters and also set a record in the all-around event. He prevailed in the overall standings from Roberto Sighel from Italy and the Dutchman Bart Veldkamp .

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	38.46 s (6)	6: 41.73 min (1)	1: 52.76 min (1)	13: 43.54 min (1)	157.396
02	Roberto Sighel	38.27 s (4)	6: 49.04 min (3)	1: 55.11 min (4)	14: 11.63 min (6)	160.125
03	Bart Veldkamp	39.38 s (23)	6: 46.46 min (2)	1: 56.08 min (11)	13: 53.45 min (2)	160.391
04th	Leo Visser	38.81 s (10)	6: 50.34 min (5)	1: 55.18 min (5)	14: 03.10 min (3)	160.392
05	Tomas Gustafson	38.45 s (5)	6: 56.60 min (9)	1: 55.66 min (9)	14: 03.94 min (4)	160.860
06th	Thomas Bos	39.03 s (17)	6: 53.73 min (7)	1: 55.22 min (7)	14: 14.43 min (7)	161.530
07th	Danny Kah	38.95 s (15)	6: 53.37 min (6)	1: 55.21 min (6)	14: 17.70 min (8)	161.575
08th	Geir Karlstad	39.96 s (30)	6: 49.37 min (4)	1: 56.89 min (17)	14: 08.45 min (5)	162.282
09	Peter Adeberg	37.52 s (1)	7: 07.60 min (28)	1: 54.23 min (2)	14: 53.73 min (15)	163.042
10	Markus Tröger	38.86 s (13)	6: 56.75 min (10)	1: 56.24 min (12)	14: 35.70 min (12)	163.066
11	Uwe Tonat	39.90 s (29)	6: 56.95 min (11)	1: 57.66 min (22)	14: 32.93 min (11)	164.461
12	Keiji Shirahata	39.52 s (25)	6: 59.24 min (12)	1: 59.20 min (32)	14: 26.00 min (10)	164.477
13	Jaromir Radke	40.96 s (35)	6: 56.10 min (8)	1: 58.45 min (27)	14: 23.79 min (9)	165.242
14th	Per Bengtsson	40.60 s (34)	6: 59.45 min (14)	1: 58.26 min (26)	14: 36.71 min (14)	165,800
15th	Toru Aoyanagi	47.04 s (38)	6: 59.30 min (13)	1: 54.80 min (3)	14: 36.43 min (13)	171.057
16	Naoki Kotake	39.10 s (18)	7:00 AM (15)	1: 56.74 min (16)	DSQ	120.015

Web links

• Results of the all-around world championship 1991 on speedskatingnews.info: women and men

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Richter: Defending champion has to learn to walk first. In: New Germany. 5th February 1991.