List of known speed skaters
The list of well-known speed skaters includes speed skaters who have successfully participated in international ( Olympic Games , World Championships , Continental Championships or the World Cup ) and national competitions (championships) or who have otherwise achieved importance for the sport.
A.
- Christine Aaftink : individual route 2 × 3rd in the World Cup (500 m 1000 m) 8 × national champion (5 × 1000 m, 3 × 500 m) sprint 2 × 3rd in the world championship 7 × national champion relay 4 × national champion (2 x 500 m )
- Nils Egil Aaness : Allround 3rd at the World Championship 1st at the European Championship
- Roald Aas : All-round 3rd at the World Championship 2 × 3rd at the European Championship Single Distance 1st at the Winter Games (1500 m)
- Ekaterina Abramova :
- Peter Adeberg : Allround 2 × national champion individual distance 2nd (1500 m) and 3rd (1000 m) in the World Cup
- Ulrike Adeberg : Allround 2 × 1st at the Junior World Championship 2nd at the World Championship 2 × national champion
- Weijiang An : Individual distance 2nd place in a World Cup race (100 m)
- Hjalmar Andersen : Allround 3 × 1st at the World Championships 3 × 1st at the European Championships Single distance 3 × 1st at the Winter Games (1500 m, 5000 m, 10000 m)
- Petter Andersen :
- Matteo Anesi :
- Monique Angermüller :
- Daniela Anschütz-Thoms : 2006 Olympic champion and 2005 world champion in the team pursuit, 2005 vice European champion in the all-around competition
- Ants Antson : All-round 1st at the European Championship, individual distance 1st at the Winter Games (1500 m)
- Susan Auch : Individual distance 2 × 2nd at the Winter Games (500 m) 2 × 2nd and 1 × 3rd in the World Cup (500 m) 2 × national champion (1000 m, 2 × 500 m)
- Gordon Audley : individual distance 3rd at the Winter Games (500 m)
- Tatjana Awerina : All-round 1st in the World Championship individual distance 2 × 1st in the Winter Games (1000 m, 3000 m)
B.
- Christina Baas-Kaiser : Allround 2 × 1st at the World Championships 6 × national champion, single course 1st at the Winter Games (3000 m)
- Dmitri Babenko
- Bae Gi-tae
- Anke Baier-Loef
- Ivar Ballangrud
- Varvara Barysheva
- Alexander Baumgartel
- Svetlana Bashanova
- Patrick Beckert
- Stephanie Beckert
- Simon van Beek
- Beixing Wang
- Elena Belci-Dal Farra
- Alexei Belyayev
- Alfons Bērziņš
- Per Bjørang
- Bonnie Blair
- Undis Blikken
- Jens Boden
- Margot Boer
- Håvard Bøkko
- Annie Borckink
- Odd Borgersen
- Jacqueline Borner
- Jan Bos
- Sylvain Bouchard
- Gaétan Boucher
- KC Boutiette
- Oleg Boschjew
- Sabine Brehm
- Christian Breuer
- Kees Broekman
- Wera Bryndsei
- Sylvia Burka
- Andreas Behr
C.
- Annette Carlén-Karlsson
- Maurizio Carnino
- Kip Carpenter
- Joey Cheek
- Sergei Khlebnikov
- Choi Jae-bong
- Choi Sung-yong
- Henrik Christiansen
- Goran Claeson
- Wieteke Cramer
D.
- Jörg Dallmann
- Arne Dankers
- Shani Davis
- Paulien van Deutekom
- Tessa van Dijk
- Frank Dittrich
- Stefano Donagrandi
- Joe Donoghue
- Dmitri Dorofeev
- Hilbert van der Duim
- Bob de Jong
- Tonny de Jong
- Barbara de Loor
- Elma de Vries
E.
- Jaap Eden
- Andrea Ehrig
- Markus Eicher
- Lars Elgersma
- Steven Elm
- Edvard Engelsaas
- Hans Engnestangen
- Karin Enke
- Rudolf Ericson
- Sigvard Ericsson
- Eskil Ervik
- Gustaf Estonian
- Bernt Evensen
F.
- Enrico Fabris
- Rolf Falk-Larssen
- Sverre Farstad
- José Ignacio Fazio
- Casey Fitz Randolph
- Eric Flaim
- Sergei Fokichev
- Dag Fornæss
- Tucker Fredricks
- Agnes Friesinger
- Anni Friesinger-Postma
- Georg Friesinger
- Jan Friesinger
- Lars Funke
G
- Marc Gagnon
- Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt
- Carolina Geijssen
- Yvonne van Gennip
- Annette Gerritsen
- Natalia Glebova
- Alexander Vyacheslavovich Golubev
- Oleg Georgievich Goncharenko
- Johan Granath
- Henk van der Grift
- Yevgeny Grishin
- Øystein Grødum
- Renate Groenewold
- Stefan Groothuis
- Kristina Groves
- Nikolai Gulyayev
- Rudolf Gundersen
- Klara Ivanovna Guseva
- Tomas Gustafson
H
- Helga Haase
- Michael Hadschieff
- Anton Hahn
- Einar Halvorsen
- Anke Hartmann
- Seiko Hashimoto
- Angela Hauck
- Maren Haugli
- Göthe Hedlund
- Chad Hedrick
- Beth heathen
- Eric Heiden
- Finn Helgesen
- Anne Henning
- Kenneth Henry
- Martin Hersman
- Judith Hesse
- Wouter Olde Heuvel
- Stefan Heythausen
- Hiroki Hirako
- Gabriele Hirschbichler
- André Hoffmann
- Johnny Höglin
- Edel Therese Høiseth
- Dianne Holum
- Kirstin Holum
- Manabu Horii
- Clara Hughes
- Emese Hunyady
- Eevi Huttunen
I.
J
- Irving Jaffee
- Dan Jansen
- Juhanni Järvinen
- Sung-Yeol Jegal
- Bjørg Eva Jensen
- Charles Jewtraw
- Jin Peiyu
- Knut Johannesen
K
- Stien Emperor
- Katrin Kalex
- Karin Kania, see Karin Enke
- Geir Karlstad
- Jōji Katō
- Lasma Kauniste
- Svetlana Kaikan
- Erhard Keller
- Gerard Kemkers
- Kenneth Kennedy
- Karin Kessow
- Rhian Ket
- Atje Keulen-Deelstra
- Alexander Kibalko
- Arjen van der Kieft
- Kim Yun-Man
- Cindy classes
- Carien Kleibeuker
- Gunda Kleemann, see Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
- Kit small
- Piet Kleine
- Moniek Kleinsmann
- Sergei Klevchenya
- Masaaki Kobayashi
- Nao Kodaira
- Sofya Kondakova
- Coen de Koning
- Janina Korowicka
- Viktor Kosichkin
- Pekka Koskela
- Johann Olav Koss
- Anzhalika Kazjuha
- Sven Kramer
- Franz Krienbühl
- Harm Kuipers
- Simon Kuipers
- Yevgeny Kulikov
- Michael Künzel
- Akira Kuroiwa
- Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
L.
- Yevgeny Lalenkov
- Valentina Lalenkova-Golowenkina
- Liselotte Landbeck
- Heike Lange
- Mikael Flygind Larsen
- Roald Larsen
- Lee Kang-seok
- Lee Kyu-hyeok
- Lee Sang-hwa
- Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
- Robert Lehmann
- Catriona LeMay Doan
- Verné Lesche
- Reidar Liaklev
- Galina Likhacheva
- Leo Linkovesi
- Dmitri Lobkov
- Christa Luding, see Christa Luding-Rothenburger
- Odd Lundberg
M.
- Hans Magnusson
- Fred Anton Maier
- Igor Malkov
- Neal Marshall
- Charles Mathiesen
- Oscar Mathisen
- Sigurd Mathisen
- Katrin Mattscherodt
- Eduard Matusewitsch
- Jack K. McCullock
- Richard McDermott
- Robert Merkulow
- Uwe-Jens Mey
- Yuri Mikhailov
- Brock Miron
- Yukinori Miyabe
- Per Ivar Moe
- Bjorn Morgenstern
- Denny Morrison
- Constanze Moser-Scandolo
- Peter Mueller
- Mun Jun
- Valery Muratov
- Kaija Mustonen
N
- Arian neighbor
- Alfred Næss
- Keiichirō Nagashima
- Takaharu Nakajima
- Igor Nefedev
- Christine Nesbitt
- Konrad Niedźwiedzki
- Gunda Niemann, see Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
- Beorn Nijenhuis
- Jonny Nilsson
- Hiroyuki Noake
- Adolf Norseng
- Andrea Nuyt
O
- Tadashi Obara
- Elli Ochowicz
- Moje Öholm
- Yūya Oikawa
- Tomomi Okazaki
- Lucille Opitz
- Peder Østlund
- Sayuri Ōsuga
- Kevin Overland
P
- Kornél Pajor
- Lassi Parkkinen
- Derek Parra
- Axel Paulsen
- Claudia Pechstein
- Pavel Pegov
- Natalia Petrusjowa
- Monika Pflug
- Haitske Pijlman
- Otto Polacsek
- Ids Postma
- Leah Poulos -Mueller
- Markus Puolakka
- Cathy Priestner
- Lyudmila Prokasheva
- Alexei Proschin
Q
R.
- Catherine Raney-Norman
- Oksana Rawilova
- Shannon Rempel
- Ren Hui
- Ralf van der Rijst
- Rintje Ritsma
- François-Olivier Roberge
- Jennifer Rodriguez
- Anna Rokita
- Gianni Rummy
- Frode Rønning
- Christa Rothenburger
- Brigt Rykkje
- Tamara Rylowa
- Erwina Rys-Ferens
S.
- Martina Sábliková
- Lyubov Sadchikova
- Leave Sætre
- Alexander Safronov
- Vadim Sajutin
- Wilhelm Sandner
- Ippolito Sanfratello
- Eriko Sanmiya
- Ihar Schaljasouski
- Adrianus Schenk
- Franziska Schenk
- Dmitri Schepel
- Boris Shilkov
- Franz Schilling
- Ruth Schleiermacher
- Tobias Schneider
- René Schöfisch
- Laila Schou Nilsen
- Svetlana Schurowa
- Johanna Schut
- Johan Schwartz
- Samuel Black
- Lidija Selichowa
- Åke Seyffarth
- Julius Seyler
- Vadim Shakshakbayev
- Chalida Shchegoleyeva
- John Shea
- Xiaomei Sheng
- Kyoko Shimazaki
- Hiroyasu Shimizu
- Shihomi Shin'ya
- Keiji Shirahata
- Roberto Sighel
- Dave Silk
- Chiara Simionato
- Amund Sjøbrend
- Lidija Skoblikova
- Ivan Skobrew
- Julius Skutnabb
- Jan Smeekens
- Arjan Smit
- Gretha Smit
- Ådne Søndrål
- Li Song
- Michael Staksrud
- Nina Statkewitsch
- Boris Stenin
- Valentina Stenina
- Sten Stensen
- Kay Arne Stenshjemmet
- Galina Stepanskaya
- Stordal rune
- Jan Egil Storholt
- Jeroen Straathof
- Harald Strøm
- Roger Strøm
- Nikolai Strunnikov
- Becky Sundstrom
T
- Maki Tabata
- Tatiana Tarasova
- René Taubenrauch
- Annamarie Thomas
- Nick Thometz
- Clas Thunberg
- Marianne Timmer
- Lyudmila Titova
- Aki Tonoike
- Markus Tröger
- Maki Tsuji
- Mark Tuitert
U
V
- Gerard van Velde
- Bart Veldkamp
- Hein Vergeer
- Carl Verheijen
- Cornelis Verkerk
- Johan Vikander
- Marja Vis
- Irene Visser
- Leo Visser
- Sabine Völker
- Antoinette Voskuil
W.
- Franz Frederik Wathén
- Wang Fei
- Wang Manli
- Heike Warnicke
- Birger Wasenius
- Yukari Watanabe
- Jan Waterstadt
- Karl Wazulek
- Marco Weber
- Wennemar's heirs
- Even bets
- Chris Witty
- Marion Wohlrab
- Katarzyna Wójcicka
- Jenny Wolf
- Inga Woronina : Allround 4 × 1st and 2 × 2nd at the World Championship
- Jeremy Wotherspoon
- Ireen Wüst