Speed ​​skating all around world championship 1992

The 50th all-around world championship for women was held on March 7th and 8th, 1992 in Thialf in Heerenveen , the Netherlands . Separately, the 86th Men's All- Around World Championship took place two weeks later, on March 21 and 22, 1992, on the Olympic Oval in Calgary , Canada . The two world championship titles went to the German Gunda Niemann and the Italian Roberto Sighel .

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-around competition consisted of 32 athletes from 15 nations. The arrows indicate how the team size of a country has changed compared to the previous edition .

• 4 starters: Germany , Japan ↑, Netherlands   
• 3 starters: Russia ¹ , United States  
• 2 starters: Italy , Norway ↑, Austria ↑, Romania ↑    
• 1 starter: Finland ↑, France ↑, Kazakhstan ¹ , Poland ↓, Sweden , People's Republic of China ↓      

Athletes from Canada, North Korea and South Korea were no longer represented compared to the previous year. Overall, the field was one participant smaller than in 1991.

Men

34 athletes from 16 nations started in the men's all-around competition.

• 4 starters: Germany , Japan , Netherlands , Norway    
• 3 starters: Sweden 
• 2 starters: Australia , Italy ↑, Austria ↓, Poland    
• 1 starter: Finland , Canada , Kazakhstan ¹ , Russia ¹ , Switzerland , Czechoslovakia , United States ↓       

Compared to the previous year, athletes from France, Romania, South Korea, Hungary and the United Kingdom were no longer represented. Overall, the field was six participants smaller than in 1991.

¹ In 1991 the Soviet Union team consisted of three female and one male athletes.

competition

Women

The German Gunda Niemann successfully defended her world championship title, first won in 1991, ahead of Emese Hunyady from Austria, who won her first World Championship medal. Seiko Hashimoto from Japan came in third .

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 Niemann	41.90 s (7)	4: 22.30 min (1)	2: 05.02 min (2)	7: 23.62 min (1)	171.651
02	Emese Hunyady	41.54 s (4)	4: 22.64 min (2)	2: 04.48 min (1)	7: 38.15 min (7)	172.621
03	Seiko Hashimoto	40.90 s (2)	4: 30.96 min (12)	2: 06.34 min (3)	7: 43.16 min (11)	174.489
04th	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	42.26 s (9)	4: 27.73 min (8)	2: 07.36 min (6)	7: 32.74 min (4)	174.608
05	Heike Warnicke	42.94 s (19)	4: 24.96 min (4)	2: 09.06 min (14)	7: 36.09 min (6)	175.684
06th	Claudia Pechstein	43.14 s (21)	4: 25.93 min (6)	2: 08.79 min (11)	7: 33.58 min (5)	175.749
07th	Svetlana Schurowa-Boiko	43.96 s (31)	4: 23.59 min (3)	2: 10.10 min (21)	7: 28.03 min (2)	176.060
08th	Lia van Schie	42.88 s (17)	4: 27.33 min (7)	2: 08.24 min (9)	7: 39.58 min (9)	176.139
09	Svetlana Bashanova	42.93 s (18)	4: 30.23 min (10)	2: 06.57 min (4)	7: 40.43 min (10)	176,201
10	Carla Zijlstra	43.88 s (28)	4: 24.89 min (5)	2: 09.97 min (19)	7: 30.36 min (3)	176.387
11	Mary Docter	43.55 s (26)	4: 29.32 min (9)	2: 08.85 min (12)	7: 39.30 min (8)	177.316
12	Sandra Voetelink	41.48 s (3)	4: 34.24 min (16)	2: 08.21 min (8)	7: 54.42 min (14)	177.364
13	Jasmin Krohn	43.16 s (22)	4: 30.82 min (11)	2: 09.51 min (17)	7: 48.85 min (12)	178,351
14th	Ewa Wasilewska-Borkowska	42.50 s (14)	4: 33.86 min (14)	2: 08.06 min (7)	7: 55.85 min (15)	178.414
15th	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	43.06 s (20)	4: 33.28 min (13)	2: 10.62 min (23)	7: 49.11 min (13)	179.057
16	Ye Qiaobo	40.09 s (1)	4: 43.01 min (29)	2: 06.76 min (5)	8: 18.00 min (16)	179.311

Men

Roberto Sighel was the first Italian to become all- around world champion. Although he did not run the fastest time on any of the sections, he was classified among the top four and relegated the Dutchman Falko Zandstra and last year's winner Johann Olav Koss from Norway to second and third place.

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	Roberto Sighel	37.38 s (3)	6: 43.91 min (2)	1: 52.38 min (2)	13: 58.39 min (4)	157.150
02	Falko Zandstra	37.98 s (7)	6: 44.14 min (3)	1: 52.17 min (1)	13: 55.63 min (1)	157.565
03	Johann Olav Koss	38.17 s (8)	6: 42.15 min (1)	1: 52.62 min (3)	13: 58.05 min (3)	157.827
04th	Thomas Bos	38.52 s (12)	6: 44.24 min (5)	1: 53.16 min (6)	14: 13.61 min (7)	159.344
05	Rintje Ritsma	37.80 s (5)	6: 50.98 min (8)	1: 53.58 min (8)	14: 12.89 min (6)	159.402
06th	Geir Karlstad	39.47 s (23)	6: 44.19 min (4)	1: 55.24 min (14)	13: 58.03 min (2)	160.203
07th	Eric Flaim	37.26 s (2)	6: 55.11 min (14)	1: 53.19 min (7)	14: 34.37 min (12)	160.219
08th	Toru Aoyanagi	37.58 s (4)	6: 57.46 min (20)	1: 52.91 min (5)	14: 39.07 min (14)	160.915
09	Jonas Schön	39.16 s (19)	6: 50.35 min (6)	1: 54.92 min (13)	14: 17.69 min (9)	161,385
10	Naoki Kotake	37.87 s (6)	6: 58.51 min (21)	1: 54.47 min (10)	14: 36.43 min (13)	161.698
11	Kazuhiro Satō	39.28 s (20)	6: 50.42 min (7)	1: 56.06 min (17)	14: 14.19 min (8)	161.717
12	Yevgeny Sanarov	39.63 s (24)	6: 52.65 min (9)	1: 55.84 min (16)	14: 09.59 min (5)	161.987
13	Per Bengtsson	40.10 s (27)	6: 53.11 min (11)	1: 56.97 min (20)	14: 24.42 min (11)	163.622
14th	Steinar Johansen	50.75 s (33)	6: 54.25 min (13)	1: 56.21 min (19)	14: 18.78 min (10)	173.850
15th	Ådne Søndrål	57.04 s (34)	6: 53.33 min (12)	1: 54.03 min (9)	14: 44.46 min (15)	180,606
16	Markus Tröger	38.85 s (16)	6: 52.97 min (10)	1: 54.48 min (11)	DSQ	118,307

Web links

• Results of the all-around world championship 1992 on speedskatingnews.info: women and men