World speed skating all-around championship 1996

World Champion Rintje Ritsma (date of recording unknown)

The 90th all- around world championship (54th women) took place from February 2nd to 4th, 1996 in the Ludwig-Schwabl-Stadion in Inzell, Germany. The two world championship titles were won by Gunda Niemann from Germany and Rintje Ritsma from the Netherlands .

Participating Nations

Women

The field of participants in the women's all-round competition consisted of 28 female athletes from 15 nations. The arrows indicate how the team size of a country has changed compared to the previous edition .

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

Athletes from Kazakhstan were no longer represented compared to the previous year. Overall, the field was two participants larger than in 1995.

Men

41 athletes from 22 nations started in the men's all-around competition.

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

Overall, the field was seven participants larger than in 1995.

competition

Women

In front of a mostly Dutch audience - of the 7500 spectators in Inzell, around 6000 came from the country of Annamarie Thomas and Tonny de Jong , only 1000 from Germany - Gunda Niemann celebrated her fifth world title in the four-way fight and thus drew level with Karin Enke in the all-time list of the best . Over 500 meters, Niemann, who had undergone knee surgery in December 1995, was sixth. Then she ran the fastest times over 1500 and 3000 meters. Annamarie Thomas, who was one of the favorites after her European Championship silver medal , fell out of the medal ranks in the final 5000 meter run. There was Claudia Pechstein 0.32 seconds ahead of Niemann fastest, Pechstein sat down with it in the overall standings behind her teammate in second place.

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 in each case in bold.

rank	Surname	500 meters	1500 meters	3000 meters	5000 meters	Total points
01	Gunda Niemann	41.63 s (6)	2: 06.13 min (1)	4: 22.59 min (1)	7: 38.34 min (2)	173.272
02	Claudia Pechstein	41.91 s (8)	2: 09.28 min (7)	4: 27.96 min (2)	7: 38.02 min (1)	175.465
03	Mitsue Uehara	41.59 s (5)	2: 07.62 min (3)	4: 28.21 min (3)	7: 48.46 min (3)	175.677
04th	Annamarie Thomas	41.32 s (2)	2: 08.43 min (4)	4: 32.04 min (7)	7: 50.49 min (5)	176.519
05	Tonny de Jong	42.06 s (11)	2: 09.96 min (10)	4: 31.04 min (6)	7: 49.58 min (4)	177.511
06th	Svetlana Bashanova	42.35 s (13)	2: 07.02 min (2)	4: 30.08 min (5)	8:00 am (7)	177.777
07th	Maki Tabata	41.96 s (10)	2: 09.19 min (6)	4: 32.13 min (8)	8: 03.20 min (8)	178.698
08th	Chiharu Nozaki	41.51 s (4)	2: 09.76 min (9)	4: 34.88 min (12)	8: 04.19 min (9)	178.995
09	Ingrid Liepa	41.92 s (9)	2: 08.83 min (5)	4: 39.08 min (14)	8: 10.28 min (11)	180,404
10	Heike Warnicke	43.92 s (23)	2: 13.02 min (22)	4: 29.87 min (4)	7: 52.64 min (6)	180.502
11	Becky Sundstrom	41.31 s (1)	2: 10.79 min (11)	4: 41.09 min (17)	8: 09.92 min (10)	180.746
12	Moira d'Andrea	41.50 s (3)	2: 09.44 min (8)	4: 40.80 min (16)	8: 22.23 min (12)	181.669

Men

The Dutchman Rintje Ritsma defended the title he won last year in a duel with his compatriot Ids Postma . Both were among the three fastest athletes on all four routes, with Ritsma being slightly superior on the longer distances. The Japanese Hiroyuki Noake was the fastest over 500 meters and 1500 meters , finishing fourth behind his team-mate Keiji Shirahata .

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 in each case in bold.

rank	Surname	500 meters	5000 meters	1500 meters	10,000 meters	Total points
01	Rintje Ritsma	37.73 s (3)	6: 52.34 min (2)	1: 54.66 min (3)	14: 22.30 min (1)	160.299
02	Ids Postma	37.59 s (2)	6: 54.05 min (3)	1: 54.32 min (2)	14: 27.17 min (2)	160.459
03	Keiji Shirahata	37.80 s (4)	6: 55.83 min (5)	1: 55.25 min (6)	14: 38.31 min (5)	161.714
04th	Hiroyuki Noake	37.10 s (1)	7:06.99 min (14)	1: 53.92 min (1)	14: 47.09 min (7)	162.126
05	KC Boutiette	37.84 s (6)	6: 58.41 min (7)	1: 55.19 min (5)	14: 43.62 min (6)	162.258
06th	Martin Hersman	38.06 s (9)	6: 55.50 min (4)	1: 55.28 min (7)	14: 57.10 min (10)	162.891
07th	Toru Aoyanagi	38.23 s (12)	7:00 a.m., 13 min (9)	1: 55.92 min (9)	14: 49.10 min (8)	163.338
08th	Neal Marshall	37.84 s (6)	7:02:34 min (11)	1: 55.03 min (4)	14: 58.82 min (11)	163.358
09	Bart Veldkamp	39.36 s (24)	6: 51.20 min (1)	1: 59.01 min (18)	14: 34.11 min (4)	163.855
10	Frank Dittrich	39.45 s (25)	6: 57.31 min (6)	1: 58.14 min (12)	14: 30.18 min (3)	164.070
11	Dave Tamburrino	38.63 s (17)	6: 59.77 min (8)	1: 57.21 min (11)	14: 53.25 min (9)	164.339
12	Andrei Anufrijenko	38.09 s (11)	7:05:54 min (13)	1: 55.85 min (8)	15:08.03 min (12)	164.661

Web links

• Results on speedskatingnews.info: men , women

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ronald Reng: Niemann's victory over himself. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 5, 1996, p. 16. Retrieved from Munzinger Online .
2. ^ Klaus Weise: Dutch days in Inzell. In: The world. February 3, 1996.