World speed skating championship in 1993

The 51st -around world championship of women was on 6 and 7 February 1993 Sport Forum Hohenschönhausen in German Berlin held. Separately from this, the 87th all-around world championship for men took place one week later, on February 13 and 14, 1993, in Vikingskipet in Hamar , Norway . The two world championship titles went to the German Gunda Niemann and the Dutchman Falko Zandstra .

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-round competition consisted of 31 athletes from 16 nations. The arrows indicate how the team size of a country has changed compared to the previous edition .

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

Athletes from France were no longer represented compared to the previous year. Overall, the field was one participant smaller than in 1992.

Men

36 athletes from 21 nations started in the men's all-around competition.

• 3 starters: Germany ↓, Japan ↓, Netherlands ↓, Norway ↓, Sweden     
• 2 starters: Italy , Canada ↑, Austria , Russia ↑, United States ↑     
• 1 starter: Australia ↓, Finland , France ↑, Kazakhstan , Poland ↓, Romania ↑, Switzerland , South Korea ↑, Czech Republic ¹ , Ukraine ↑, People's Republic of China ↑           

Overall, the field was two participants larger than in 1992.

¹In 1992 Jirí Kyncl competed in the World Cup for Czechoslovakia, after its dissolution from 1993 for the Czech Republic.

competition

Women

For the third time in a row, Gunda Niemann from Germany became world champion in the all-around competition. She prevailed with three track wins ahead of Austrian Emese Hunyady and her own teammate Heike Warnicke . At the European Championships in January, Niemann fell over 500 meters and was only sixth in the overall classification when Hunyadys won. Nevertheless, the German was considered the title favorite and after two distances took the lead in the all-around competition, which she defended until the end of the competition.

The following table shows the twelve best placed athletes in the overall ranking of the all-around world championships who 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	41.80 s (6)	4: 23.15 min (1)	2: 6.60 min (1)	7: 25.83 min (1)	172.441
02	Emese Hunyady	41.31 s (3)	4: 26.59 min (3)	2: 06.67 min (2)	7: 41.49 min (4)	174.113
03	Heike Warnicke	42.82 s (16)	4: 23.64 min (2)	2: 08.41 min (3)	7: 33.48 min (3)	174.911
04th	Seiko Hashimoto	42.02 s (7)	4: 33.57 min (11)	2: 08.94 min (4)	7: 42.60 min (5)	176.855
05	Mitsue Uehara	42.58 s (12)	4: 31.11 min (6)	2: 10.79 min (8)	7: 49.52 min (7)	178.313
06th	Mihaela Dascălu	41.70 s (5)	4: 32.69 min (9)	2: 11.19 min (9)	7: 54.47 min (9)	178.325
07th	Carla Zijlstra	44.09 s (25)	4: 30.56 min (5)	2: 12.31 min (16)	7: 32.38 min (2)	178.524
08th	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	43.91 s (23)	4: 29.68 min (4)	2: 11.45 min (11)	7: 43.72 min (6)	179.044
09	Claudia Pechstein	42.89 s (19)	4: 32.60 min (8)	2: 12.40 min (17)	7: 49.83 min (8)	179,439
10	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	44.07 s (24)	4: 33.10 min (10)	2: 12.83 min (21)	7: 54.95 min (10)	181.357
11	Miki Ogasawara	44.72 s (29)	4: 31.40 min (7)	2: 12.15 min (15)	7: 55.50 min (11)	181.553
12	Ye Qiaobo	40.41 s (1)	4: 43.63 min (27)	2: 10.76 min (10)	8: 45.57 min (12)	183.824

Men

The world championship in Hamar was held in the newly built Vikingskipet as a test for the Olympic competitions taking place there a year later and also marked the 100th anniversary of the Norwegian Skating Union, which was founded in Hamar in February 1893. In front of about 13,500 mostly Norwegian spectators, the Dutch all- around European champion Falko Zandstra prevailed against the local Johann Olav Koss . Zandstra ran a track record over 5000 meters and was about three and a half seconds faster than Koss, who had set a world record over this distance a few weeks earlier . This lead was enough for Zandstra to keep Koss at a distance in the overall standings on the last two stretches. The Norwegian, with whose portrait the World Cup was massively advertised, then complained about the ice that was too soft. Behind Zandstra and Koss, another Dutchman, Rintje Ritsma , won the bronze medal. Defending champion Roberto Sighel finished sixth.

The following table shows the twelve best placed athletes in the overall ranking of the all-around world championship 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	Falko Zandstra	38.00 s (4)	6: 43.86 min (1)	1: 53.06 min (2)	13: 51.09 min (3)	157.626
02	Johann Olav Koss	38.17 s (6)	6: 47.44 min (2)	1: 52.53 min (1)	13: 50.75 min (2)	157.961
03	Rintje Ritsma	37.99 s (3)	6: 50.01 min (4)	1: 53.51 min (3)	14:04:31 min (4)	159.042
04th	Bart Veldkamp	39.39 s (18)	6: 47.91 min (3)	1: 57.64 min (9)	13: 46.34 min (1)	160.711
05	Steinar Johansen	38.86 s (10)	6: 58.77 min (8)	1: 55.81 min (4)	14: 23.11 min (9)	162.495
06th	Roberto Sighel	38.13 s (5)	7:00 am (11)	1: 56.76 min (6)	14: 28.88 min (12)	162.515
07th	Yuri Shulha	39.05 s (11)	7:00 am (12)	1: 57.38 min (7)	14: 28.09 min (11)	163.612
08th	Yevgeny Sanarov	39.86 s (23)	6: 57.05 min (5)	1: 57.46 min (8)	14: 18.33 min (5)	163.634
09	Dezideriu Horváth	39.52 s (20)	6: 58.22 min (7)	1: 57.91 min (14)	14: 22.23 min (7)	163.756
10	Kazuhiro Satō	39.94 s (24)	6: 57.67 min (6)	1: 57.67 min (10)	14: 20.08 min (6)	163.934
11	Toshihiko Itokawa	40.12 s (28)	7:01.51 min (13)	2: 01.64 min (30)	14: 26.29 min (10)	166.131
12	Per Bengtsson	41.03 s (35)	7:00 am (10)	2:00:06 min (27)	14: 22.29 min (8)	166.171

Web links

• Results of the all-around world championship 1993 on speedskatingnews.info: women and men

Individual evidence

1. Jump ahead instead of on the ice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 8, 1993. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
2. ↑ Ronald Reng: The ice cream master does not manage a master ice for Koss. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 15, 1993. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .