1972 Winter Olympics/Speed ​​Skating

Speed ​​skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Sapporo
competition site	Makomanai Stadium
nations	18
athletes	118 (67 , 51 )
date	4th-12th February 1972
decisions	8th
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At the XI. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo , eight competitions in speed skating took place. The venue was Makomanai Stadium in Minami-ku Municipality . For the first time, times were measured with an accuracy of hundredths of a second.

balance sheet

Makomanai Stadium in the summer of 2007

medal table

place	country				total
1	Netherlands	4	3	2	9
2	United States	2	1	1	4
3	Federal Republic of Germany	2	–	–	2
4	Norway	–	2	2	4
5	Soviet Union	–	1	2	3
6	Sweden	–	1	1	2

medal winner

Men competitor gold silver bronze 500m Erhard Keller hate Boerjes Valery Muratov 1500m Ard Schenk Roar Grønvold Goran Claeson 5000m Ard Schenk Roar Grønvold Stensen 10,000m Ard Schenk Kees Verkerk Stensen

women competitor gold silver bronze 500m Anne Henning Vera Krasnova Lyudmila Titova 1000m Monica Pflug Atje Keulen-Deelstra Anne Henning 1500m Diana Holum Christina Baas Kaiser Atje Keulen-Deelstra 3000m Christina Baas Kaiser Diana Holum Atje Keulen-Deelstra

results men

500m

place	country	athlete	time (s)
1	FRG	Erhard Keller	39.44 ( OR )
2	SWE	hate Boerjes	39.69
3	URS	Valery Muratov	39.80
4	NOR	Per Bjorang	39.91
5	FIN	Seppo Haninen	40:12
6	FIN	Leo Linkovesi	40:14
7	SWE	Ove King	40.25
8th	JPN	Masaki Suzuki	40.35
9	SWE	Mats Wallberg	40.41
10	FRG	Hans Lichtenstern	40.55
21	FRG	Gerhard Zimmerman	41.35
23	AUT	Ottmar Braunecker	42:14
31	FRG	Herbert Schwarz	43.03

Date: February 5, 1972, 10:00 a.m.
38 participants from 16 countries, 36 of them in the classification.

1500m

place	country	athlete	time (min)
1	NEED	Ard Schenk	2:02.96 ( OR )
2	NOR	Roar Grønvold	2:04,26
3	SWE	Goran Claeson	2:05.89
4	NOR	Bjorn Tveter	2:05.94
5	NEED	Jan Bols	2:06.58
6	URS	Valery Lavrushkin	2:07,16
7	USA	Dan Carroll	2:07,24
8th	NEED	Kees Verkerk	2:07.43
9	SWE	Johnny Hoglin	2:08,11
10	FIN	Kimmo Koskinen	2:08,18
12	FRG	Gerhard Zimmerman	2:08.95
31	AUT	Ottmar Braunecker	2:14.88
32	FRG	Herbert Schwarz	2:15,42

Date: February 6, 1972, 10:00 am
39 participants from 16 countries, all in the ranking.

5000m

place	country	athlete	time (min)
1	NEED	Ard Schenk	7:23,61
2	NOR	Roar Grønvold	7:28,18
3	NOR	Stensen	7:33,39
4	SWE	Goran Claeson	7:36,17
5	NOR	Willy Olsen	7:36,47
6	NEED	Kees Verkerk	7:39,17
7	URS	Valery Lavrushkin	7:39,26
8th	NEED	Jan Bols	7:39,40
9	FRG	Gerhard Zimmerman	7:41,16
10	USA	Dan Carroll	7:44.72
27	FRG	Herbert Schwarz	8:26.03

Date: February 4, 1972, 09:00
28 participants from 14 countries, all in the ranking.

10,000m

place	country	athlete	time (min)
1	NEED	Ard Schenk	15:01.35 ( OR )
2	NEED	Kees Verkerk	15:04.70
3	NOR	Stensen	15:07.08
4	NEED	Jan Bols	15:17.99
5	URS	Valery Lavrushkin	15:20.08
6	SWE	Goran Claeson	15:30,19
7	FIN	Kimmo Koskinen	15:38.87
8th	FRG	Gerhard Zimmerman	15:43.92
9	USA	Dan Carroll	15:44,41
10	JPN	Kiyomi Itō	15:48,17

Date: February 7, 1972, 09:00
24 participants from 14 countries, all in the ranking.

results women

500m

place	country	sportswoman	time (s)
1	USA	Anne Henning	43.33 ( OR )
2	URS	Vera Krasnova	44.01
3	URS	Lyudmila Titova	44.45
4	USA	Sheila Young	44.53
5	FRG	Monica Pflug	44.75
6	NEED	Atje Keulen-Deelstra	44.89
7	USA	Kathryn Ann Lunda	44.95
8th	URS	Alla Butova	45:17
9	JPN	Sachiko Saito	45.35
10	NEED	Ellie van den Brom	45.62
12	FRG	Paula scenter	45.77
13	GDR	Ruth Schleiermacher	45.78
17	FRG	Monica Stutzle	48:15

Award ceremony of the 500 meter race

Date: February 10, 1972, 10:00 a.m.
29 participants from 12 countries, 28 of them in the ranking.

1000m

place	country	sportswoman	time (min)
1	FRG	Monica Pflug	1:31.40 ( OR )
2	NEED	Atje Keulen-Deelstra	1:31.61
3	USA	Anne Henning	1:31.62
4	URS	Ludmilla Titova	1:31.85
5	URS	Nina Statkevich	1:32,21
6	USA	Diana Holum	1:32.41
7	NEED	Ellie van den Brom	1:32.60
8th	CAN	Sylvia Burqa	1:32.95
9	NOR	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	1:32.95
10	URS	Lyudmila Savrulina	1:33.41
12	GDR	Rosemarie Taupadel	1:33.79
16	FRG	Paula scenter	1:34.86
33	GDR	Ruth Schleiermacher	1:52.65

Date: February 11, 1972, 09:00
33 participants from 12 countries, all in the ranking.

1500m

place	country	sportswoman	time (min)
1	USA	Diana Holum	2:20.85 ( OR )
2	NEED	Christina Baas Kaiser	2:21.05
3	NEED	Atje Keulen-Deelstra	2:22.05
4	NEED	Elly van de Broem	2:22,27
5	GDR	Rosemarie Taupadel	2:22,35
6	URS	Nina Statkevich	2:23,19
7	USA	Connie Carpenter-Phinney	2:23.93
8th	NOR	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	2:24.07
9	URS	Capitolina Seryogina	2:24,29
10	FRG	Monica Pflug	2:24.69
15	FRG	Paula scenter	2:26.00
31	FRG	Monica Stutzle	2:37,15

Date: February 9, 1972, 10:00 am
31 participants from 12 countries, all in the ranking.

3000m

place	country	sportswoman	time (min)
1	NEED	Christina Baas Kaiser	4:52–14 ( OR )
2	USA	Diana Holum	4:58,67
3	NEED	Atje Keulen-Deelstra	4:59.91
4	NEED	Sippy Tichelaar	5:01.67
5	URS	Nina Statkevich	5:01.79
6	URS	Capitolina Seryogina	5:01.88
7	FIN	Tuula Vilkas	5:05.92
8th	URS	Lyudmila Savrulina	5:06.61
9	PRK	Han Pil-hwa	5:07,24
10	NOR	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	5:07.76
15	GDR	Rosemarie Taupadel	5:12.85

Date: February 12, 1972, 10:00 am
22 participants from 10 countries, all in the ranking.

web links

• Speed ​​skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official Report of the 1972 Winter Olympics (PDF; 43.3 MB)