World speed skating championship 1994

The 52nd all- around world championship for women was held on February 5 and 6, 1994 on the High Mountain Altitude Rink in the US American Butte . Which found separated therefrom Men 88th all-around world championship five weeks later, on 12 and 13 March 1994 in Ruddalens IP in Swedish Gothenburg instead. The two world championship titles went to the Austrian Emese Hunyady and the Norwegian Johann Olav Koss .

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-around event consisted of 23 athletes from 11 nations. The arrows indicate how the team size of a country has changed compared to the previous edition .

• 3 starters: Germany , Japan  
• 2 starters: Canada ↑, Kazakhstan ↑, Netherlands ↓, Norway , Austria , Romania , Russia ↓, United States ↓        
• 1 starter: Sweden 

Athletes from Finland, Italy, Poland, South Korea and the People's Republic of China were no longer represented compared to the previous year. Overall, the field was eight participants smaller than in 1993.

Men

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

• 3 starters: Italy ↑, Japan , Netherlands , Norway , United States ↑     
• 2 starters: Germany ↓, Canada , Kazakhstan ↑, Russia , Sweden ↓, Ukraine ↑      
• 1 starter: Finland , France , Austria ↓, Poland , Romania , Switzerland , Czech Republic       

Compared to the previous year, athletes from Australia, South Korea and the People's Republic of China were no longer represented. Overall, the field was two participants smaller than in 1993.

competition

Women

A week before the start of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , several athletes decided not to take part in the World Championships in Butte, USA. The German defending champion Gunda Niemann was also not at the start. At the top of the overall standings there was a duel between Ulrike Adeberg , who ran the best time over 500 meters and led the all- around ranking after the first day of competition, and Emese Hunyady , who had won her first international title at the all- around European Championship in 1993 . With the fastest times over 1500 meters, 3000 meters and 5000 meters, Hunyady prevailed in the end and became the first Austrian to become speed skating world champion. Adeberg won silver, the Romanian Mihaela Dascălu bronze. On her World Cup debut, 17-year-old Anni Friesinger came fifth overall.

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	Emese Hunyady	41.80 s (2)	4: 30.59 min (1)	2: 07.13 min (1)	8:02:06 min (1)	177,480
02	Ulrike Adeberg	41.36 s (1)	4: 30.71 min (2)	2: 09.09 min (5)	8: 12.25 min (8)	178.733
03	Mihaela Dascălu	42.25 s (6)	4: 32.91 min (3)	2: 07.22 min (2)	8: 08.02 min (6)	178.943
04th	Noriko Munekata	42.43 s (10)	4: 34.98 min (6)	2: 08.27 min (4)	8: 05.54 min (4)	179.570
05	Anni Friesinger	43.47 s (18)	4: 34.87 min (5)	2: 07.93 min (3)	8: 04.77 min (2)	180,401
06th	Mitsue Uehara	42.61 s (11)	4: 32.93 min (4)	2: 11.79 min (7)	8: 06.42 min (5)	180.670
07th	Emese Antal	41.84 s (3)	4: 40.22 min (12)	2: 12.46 min (8)	8: 13.77 min (10)	182.073
08th	Anette Tønsberg	43.18 s (15)	4: 38.42 min (9)	2: 09.86 min (6)	8: 13.02 min (9)	182.171
09	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	43.49 s (19)	4: 35.54 min (7)	2: 13.32 min (9)	8: 04.97 min (3)	182,350
10	Ingrid Liepa	42.02 s (5)	4: 37.26 min (8)	2: 14.58 min (12)	8: 30.53 min (12)	184.143
11	Heike Warnicke	43.60 s (20)	4: 38.87 min (10)	2: 15.57 min (13)	8: 10.89 min (7)	184.357
12	Tonny de Jong	42.99 s (13)	4: 39.41 min (11)	2: 15.83 min (15)	8: 21.44 min (11)	184.978

Men

The men's World Cup took place after the Olympic competitions. The three-time Olympic champion Johann Olav Koss also won the title of all-around world champion and triumphed with course wins over 1500 meters and 10,000 meters in front of the two younger Dutchmen Ids Postma and Rintje Ritsma .

The following table shows the twelve 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	5000 meters	1500 meters	10,000 meters	Total points
01	Johann Olav Koss	39.44 s (9)	7: 14.21 min (2)	1: 59.68 min (1)	14: 49.58 min (1)	167.233
02	Ids Postma	38.39 s (1)	7: 27.68 min (19)	2: 01.66 min (6)	14: 54.93 min (3)	168.457
03	Rintje Ritsma	39.38 s (8)	7: 18.96 min (6)	2: 01.25 min (4)	14: 57.48 min (4)	168.566
04th	Keiji Shirahata	39.14 s (6)	7: 18.72 min (5)	2: 01.50 min (5)	15: 09.28 min (6)	168.976
05	Hiroyuki Noake	38.50 s (2)	7: 20.25 min (8)	2: 00.95 min (3)	15: 25.07 min (10)	169.094
06th	Kjell Storelid	41.19 s (26)	7: 11.63 min (1)	2: 03.27 min (13)	14: 51.68 min (2)	170.027
07th	Andrei Anufrijenko	38.96 s (5)	7: 23.89 min (14)	2: 00.76 min (2)	15: 30.70 min (11)	170.137
08th	Bart Veldkamp	40.19 s (14)	7: 20.95 min (9)	2: 03.48 min (14)	14: 57.56 min (5)	170.323
09	Steinar Johansen	39.97 s (12)	7: 19.40 min (7)	2: 02.33 min (10)	15: 21.89 min (9)	170.780
10	Jonas Schön	40.26 s (15)	7: 21.53 min (10)	2: 05.76 min (24)	15: 21.71 min (8)	172.418
11	René Taubenrauch	41.47 s (29)	7: 18.35 min (4)	2: 06.89 min (29)	15: 14.82 min (7)	173.342
12	Jaromir Radke	41.96 s (31)	7: 16.05 min (3)	2: 06.28 min (27)	15: 34.73 min (12)	174.394

Web links

• Results of the all-around world championship 1994 on speedskatingnews.info: women and men

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dpa : Hunyady intercepts Adeberg. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 8, 1994, p. 28. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .