Olympic Winter Games 1994 / speed skating

Speed ​​skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Hamar
Competition venue	Hamar Olympic Hall
Nations	21st
Athletes	150 (89 , 61 )
date	13.-23. February 1994
decisions	10
← Albertville 1992 Nagano 1998 →

Ten speed skating competitions were held at the XVII Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994 . The venue was the Hamar Olympic Hall in Hamar , which opened in 1992 and is one of the fastest lanes in the world. Although the former athletes started for their respective new national associations for the first time after the collapse of the Soviet Union , fewer runners and fewer nations were registered than two years earlier in Albertville .

The German team, used to success, had to cope with a certain disappointment. For the first time, the effects of the changed social conditions for the mostly East German athletes were felt. Nonetheless, the women won six medals. Gunda Niemann's fall over 3000 meters meant a serious setback . The ambitious Erfurt, who was considered the winner of both long distances and a fixed medal bank over 1500 meters from the start, ran too briskly on the fast ice and got stuck on a frozen track mark right at the start of her parade route. Despite the fall, he crossed the finish line, securing the team a place on the grid and still winning silver and bronze. The Norwegian Johann Olav Koss won three courses in front of his home crowd with world records and rose to become a folk hero.

Balance sheet

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Medal table

space	country				total
1	Norway	3	2	-	5
2	United States	3	-	-	3
3	Russia	2	2	1	5
4th	Germany	1	2	3	6th
5	Austria	1	1	-	2
6th	Netherlands	-	1	3	4th
7th	Canada	-	1	-	1
	Belarus	-	1	-	1
9	Japan	-	-	2	2
10	China	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Alexander Golubev Sergei Klevchenya Manabu Horii 1000 m Dan Jansen Ihar Schaljasouski Sergei Klevchenya 1500 m Johann Olav Koss Rintje Ritsma Falko Zandstra 5000 m Johann Olav Koss Kjell Storelid Rintje Ritsma 10,000 m Johann Olav Koss Kjell Storelid Bart Veldkamp

Women competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Bonnie Blair Susan too Franziska Schenk 1000 m Bonnie Blair Anke Baier Ye Qiaobo 1500 m Emese Hunyady Svetlana Fedotkina Gunda Niemann 3000 m Svetlana Bashanova Emese Hunyady Claudia Pechstein 5000 m Claudia Pechstein Gunda Niemann Hiromi Yamamoto

Results men

500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	RUS	Alexander Golubev	36.33 ( OR )
2	RUS	Sergei Klevchenya	36.39
3	JPN	Manabu Horii	36.53
4th	CHN	Liu Hongbo	36.54
5	JPN	Hiroyasu Shimizu	36.60
6th	JPN	Junichi Inoue	36.63
7th	NOR	Grund Njøs	36.66
8th	United States	Dan Jansen	36.68
9	JPN	Yasunori Miyabe	36.72
10	BLR	Ihar Schaljasouski	36.73
18th	GER	Peter Adeberg	37.35
28	GER	Lars Funke	37.80
39	GER	Michael Spielmann	38.58

Date: February 14, 1994, 2:00 p.m.
40 participants from 16 countries, 39 of them in the ranking.

1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	United States	Dan Jansen	1: 12.43 ( WR )
2	BLR	Ihar Schaljasouski	1: 12.72
3	RUS	Sergei Klevchenya	1: 12.85
4th	CHN	Liu Hongbo	1: 13.47
5	CAN	Sylvain Bouchard	1: 13.56
6th	CAN	Patrick Nelly	1: 13.67
7th	NOR	Roger Strøm	1: 13.74
8th	JPN	Junichi Inoue	1: 13.75
9	NED	Gerard van Velde	1: 13.81
10	CAN	Kevin Scott	1: 13.82
13	GER	Peter Adeberg	1: 14.15
27	GER	Michael Spielmann	1: 15.41
28	GER	Lars Funke	1: 15.44

Date: February 18, 1994, 2 p.m.
43 participants from 17 countries, 40 of them in the ranking.

1500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NOR	Johann Olav Koss	1: 51.29 ( WR )
2	NED	Rintje Ritsma	1: 51.99
3	NED	Falko Zandstra	1: 52.38
4th	NOR	Ådne Søndrål	1: 53.13
5	RUS	Andrei Anufrijenko	1: 53.16
6th	GER	Peter Adeberg	1: 53.50
7th	CAN	Neal Marshall	1: 53.56
8th	NED	Martin Hersman	1: 53.50
9	NED	Jeroen Straathof	1: 53.70
10	UKR	Yuri Shulha	1: 53.50
13	GER	Olaf Zinke	1: 54.66
17th	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	1: 55.09
19th	GER	Thomas Kumm	1: 55.35
20th	GER	Michael Spielmann	1: 55.36
22nd	AUT	Roland Brunner	1: 55.78

Date: February 16, 1994, 2 p.m.
44 participants from 17 countries, 41 of them in the ranking.

5000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NOR	Johann Olav Koss	6: 34.96 (WR)
2	NOR	Kjell Storelid	6: 42.68
3	NED	Rintje Ritsma	6: 43.94
4th	NED	Falko Zandstra	6: 44.58
5	NED	Bart Veldkamp	6: 49.00
6th	JPN	Toshihiko Itokawa	6: 49.36
7th	POLE	Jaromir Radke	6: 50.40
8th	GER	Frank Dittrich	6: 52.27
9	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	6: 53.02
10	AUT	Christian Eminger	6: 53.18
23	GER	Alexander Baumgartel	6: 59.64
28	CHE	Martin Feigenwinter	7: 02.12
29	GER	Thomas Kumm	7: 02.18

Date: February 13, 1994, 3:00 p.m.
32 participants from 17 countries, all rated.

10,000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NOR	Johann Olav Koss	13: 30.55 ( OR )
2	NOR	Kjell Storelid	13: 49.25
3	NED	Bart Veldkamp	13: 56.73
4th	NED	Falko Zandstra	13: 58.25
5	POLE	Jaromir Radke	14: 03.84
6th	GER	Frank Dittrich	14: 04.33
7th	NED	Rintje Ritsma	14: 09.28
8th	SWE	Jonas Schön	14: 10.15
9	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	14: 12.09
10	AUT	Christian Eminger	14: 15.14

Date: February 20, 1994, 2 p.m.
16 participants from 10 countries, all in the ranking.

Results women

500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (s)
1	United States	Bonnie Blair	39.25
2	CAN	Susan too	39.61
3	GER	Franziska Schenk	39.70
4th	CHN	Xue Ruihong	39.71
5	COR	Yoo Sun-hee	39.92
6th	GER	Monique Garbrecht	39.95
7th	RUS	Svetlana Schurowa	40.17
8th	NOR	Edel Therese Høiseth	40.20
9	CHN	Jin Hua	40.23
10	JPN	Kyoko Shimazaki	40.26
12	GER	Angela Hauck	40.38
15th	GER	Anke Baier	40.59
27	AUT	Emese Antal	41.59

Date: February 19, 1994, 2:00 p.m.
34 participants from 12 countries, 33 of them in the evaluation.

1000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	United States	Bonnie Blair	1: 18.74
2	GER	Anke Baier	1: 20.12
3	CHN	Ye Qiaobo	1: 20.22
4th	GER	Franziska Schenk	1: 20.25
5	GER	Monique Garbrecht	1: 20.32
6th	JPN	Shiho Kusunose	1: 20.37
7th	AUT	Emese Hunyady	1: 20.42
8th	CAN	Susan too	1: 20.72
9	RUS	Oksana Rawilova	1: 20.82
10	RUS	Natalia Poloskova	1: 20.84
12	GER	Angela Hauck	1: 20.93
22nd	AUT	Emese Antal	1: 22.34

Date: February 23, 1994, 4:00 p.m.
36 participants from 12 countries, all rated.

1500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	AUT	Emese Hunyady	2: 02.18
2	RUS	Svetlana Fedotkina	2: 02.69
3	GER	Gunda Niemann	2: 03.41
4th	United States	Bonnie Blair	2: 03.44
5	NED	Annamarie Thomas	2: 03.70
6th	RUS	Svetlana Bashanova	2: 03.99
7th	RUS	Natalia Poloskova	2: 04.00
8th	ROME	Mihaela Dascălu	2: 04.02
9	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	2: 04.98
10	NED	Tonny De Jong	2: 05.18
11	GER	Anke Baier	2: 05.97
14th	GER	Ulrike Adeberg	2: 06.40
19th	AUT	Emese Antal	2: 07.72
26th	GER	Heike Warnicke	2: 09.53

Date: February 21, 1994, 2:00 p.m.
30 participants from 11 countries, all rated.

3000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	RUS	Svetlana Bashanova	4: 17.43
2	AUT	Emese Hunyady	4: 18.14
3	GER	Claudia Pechstein	4: 18.34
4th	KAZ	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	4: 19.33
5	NED	Annamarie Thomas	4: 19.82
6th	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	4: 21.07
7th	JPN	Hiromi Yamamoto	4: 22.37
8th	ROME	Mihaela Dascălu	4: 22.42
9	NED	Carla Zijlstra	4: 23.42
10	JPN	Miki Ogasawara	4: 25.27
13	AUT	Emese Antal	4: 27.91
15th	GER	Heike Warnicke	4: 28.43

Date: February 17, 1994, 2:00 p.m.

27 participants from 14 countries, 25 of them in the evaluation. Retired u. a .: Gunda Niemann (GER).

5000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	GER	Claudia Pechstein	7: 14.37
2	GER	Gunda Niemann	7: 14.88
3	JPN	Hiromi Yamamoto	7: 19.68
4th	ITA	Elena Belci	7: 20.33
5	RUS	Svetlana Bashanova	7: 22.68
6th	KAZ	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	7: 28.58
7th	NED	Carla Zijlstra	7: 29.42
8th	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	7: 29.79
9	JPN	Miki Ogasawara	7: 30.47
10	NED	Annamarie Thomas	7: 32.39
15th	AUT	Emese Antal	7: 46.78

Date: February 25, 1994, 2:00 p.m.
16 participants from 9 countries, all in the ranking.

Web links

• Speed ​​skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1994 Winter Olympics (PDF; 13.6 MB)