World speed skating championship in 1995

The 89th all-around world championship of men was on 11 and 12 February 1995 at the Stadio del Ghiacchio di Pine in Italy Baselga di Pine discharged. Separately from this, the 53rd all- around world championship for women took place three weeks later, on March 4th and 5th, 1995, on the Savalen Kunstisbane in Tynset , Norway . For the fourth time, Gunda Niemann was world champion in women, in men Rintje Ritsma won his first world championship title.

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-round competition consisted of 26 athletes from 14 nations. The arrows indicate how the team size of a country has changed compared to the previous edition .

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

Overall, the field was three participants larger than in 1994.

Men

34 athletes from 19 nations started in the men's all-around competition.

• 3 starters: Germany ↑, Japan , Netherlands , Norway    
• 2 starters: Italy ↓, Canada , Kazakhstan , Austria ↑, Poland ↑, Russia , United States ↓       
• 1 starter: Finland , New Zealand ↑, Romania , Sweden ↓, Switzerland , South Korea ↑, Ukraine ↓, Belarus ↑        

Compared to the previous year, athletes from France and the Czech Republic were no longer represented. Overall, the field was the same size as in 1994.

competition

Women

In her fourth world championship title, Gunda Niemann ran the fastest time on all four sections for the first time and was the third speed skater in World Cup history to complete an all-around competition without defeat (after Beth Heiden 1979 and Andrea Ehrig 1985 ). The Austrian defending champion Emese Hunyady fell out of the medal ranks in the final 5000-meter run and took fourth place behind the Kazakh Lyudmila Prokaschowa and Annamarie Thomas from the Netherlands, who were both about four points behind Niemann - on the 5000-meter run. Converted distance, this corresponded to a distance of 40 seconds. The competition took place at temperatures as low as –15 ° C.

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	41.00 s (1)	4: 24.72 min (1)	2: 03.86 min (1)	7: 28.70 min (1)	171.276
02	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	42.68 s (9)	4: 26.13 min (3)	2: 06.15 min (2)	7: 41.16 min (4)	175,201
03	Annamarie Thomas	42.25 s (5)	4: 28.44 min (6)	2: 06.62 min (3)	7: 43.52 min (5)	175.548
04th	Emese Hunyady	41.27 s (2)	4: 30.13 min (7)	2: 08.00 min (5)	7: 48.85 min (8)	175.842
05	Heike Warnicke	43.40 s (17)	4: 27.68 min (4)	2: 09.55 min (8)	7: 39.42 min (3)	177.138
06th	Mitsue Uehara	42.73 s (11)	4: 30.83 min (8)	2: 09.25 min (7)	7: 43.58 min (6)	177,309
07th	Claudia Pechstein	42.91 s (14)	4: 31.28 min (9)	2: 09.97 min (9)	7: 46.74 min (7)	178.120
08th	Carla Zijlstra	44.82 s (23)	4: 25.06 min (2)	2: 11.80 min (16)	7: 37.53 min (2)	178.682
09	Maki Tabata	42.85 s (12)	4: 35.15 min (14)	2: 09.20 min (6)	7: 53.11 min (9)	179.085
10	Tonny de Jong	43.02 s (15)	4: 32.46 min (11)	2: 10.77 min (12)	7: 54.25 min (10)	179.445
11	Anette Tønsberg	42.68 s (9)	4: 32.63 min (13)	2: 12.09 min (18)	7: 59.04 min (11)	180.052
12	Moira d'Andrea	41.70 s (3)	4: 37.02 min (16)	2: 10.14 min (10)	8: 08.24 min (12)	180.074

Men

The competition on the open-air track at Baselga di Piné took place under constantly changing external conditions, with sleet and fog at times. The successor of the resigned title holder Johann Olav Koss from Norway was the Dutchman Rintje Ritsma . Ritsma, who had already become European all- around champion a few weeks earlier , was considered the favorite and confirmed this position with victories on the 1500 meters and 10,000 meters. Behind him, the Japanese Keiji Shirahata and the Italian Roberto Sighel won the other medals. The Dutch world champion from 1993 Falko Zandstra fell over 1500 meters and thus did not qualify for the final 10,000 meter race. The two Germans Frank Dittrich and René Taubenrauch ran the best times over 5000 meters, but also benefited from their starting position, which enabled them to race with falling temperatures and hardening ice.

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	Rintje Ritsma	38.42 s (3)	7:03:08 min (5)	1: 53.31 min (1)	14: 09.89 min (1)	160.992
02	Keiji Shirahata	39.12 s (13)	7: 02.40 min (4)	1: 53.39 min (2)	14: 14.16 min (2)	161.864
03	Roberto Sighel	38.56 s (6)	7:05:14 min (10)	1: 55.48 min (8)	14: 25.69 min (5)	162.851
04th	Takahiro Nozaki	39.11 s (12)	7:01.84 min (3)	1: 56.18 min (11)	14: 21.80 min (3)	163.110
05	Dave Tamburrino	38.82 s (9)	7: 06.88 min (14)	1: 54.90 min (7)	14: 35.91 min (7)	163,603
06th	Andrei Anufrijenko	38.55 s (4)	7:05:57 min (11)	1: 55.85 min (9)	14: 37.82 min (9)	163.614
07th	Hiroyuki Noake	37.91 s (1)	7: 17.87 min (24)	1: 54.13 min (5)	14: 43.14 min (11)	163.897
08th	Neal Marshall	38.74 s (8)	7: 13.89 min (20)	1: 53.86 min (3)	14: 41.01 min (10)	164.132
09	René Taubenrauch	39.81 s (21)	6: 59.19 min (2)	1: 57.15 min (15)	14: 31.16 min (6)	164.337
10	Frank Dittrich	40.09 s (25)	6: 56.66 min (1)	1: 58.39 min (21)	14: 24.86 min (4)	164.462
11	Sergei Zybenko	39.06 s (11)	7: 04.67 min (9)	1: 55.92 min (10)	14: 56.46 min (12)	164.990
12	Christian Eminger	41.35 s (32)	7: 03.95 min (6)	2: 00.76 min (29)	14: 36.13 min (8)	167,804

Web links

• Results of the all-around world championship 1995 on speedskatingnews.info: women and men

Individual evidence

1. ↑ dpa : Niemann dominates in the one-sided all-around competition. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 6, 1995, p. 15. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
2. ↑ sid : Ritsma inherits the throne. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 13, 1995, p. 17. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .