1992 Winter Olympics / Speed ​​Skating

Speed ​​skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Albertville
Competition venue	L'anneau de vitesse
Nations	23
Athletes	154 (95 , 59 )
date	9-20 February 1992
decisions	10
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At the XVI. During the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , ten speed skating competitions were held. The venue was the specially constructed open-air artificial ice rink L'anneau de vitesse , which was used for other purposes at the end of the 1992 season. It was the last time the speed skating races were held in the open air. The first all-German Olympic team after reunification won eleven of the 30 medals. The outstanding runner was Gunda Niemann , who underscored her exceptional position with two golds and one silver.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Germany	5	3	3	11
2	Norway	2	2	1	5
3	United States	2	-	-	2
4th	Netherlands	1	1	2	4th
5	China	-	2	-	2
6th	Japan	-	1	3	4th
7th	South Korea	-	1	-	1
8th	Austria	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Uwe-Jens Mey Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Junichi Inoue 1000 m Olaf Zinke Kim Yoon-man Yukinori Miyabe 1500 m Johann Olav Koss Ådne Søndrål Leo Visser 5000 m Geir Karlstad Falko Zandstra Leo Visser 10,000 m Bart Veldkamp Johann Olav Koss Geir Karlstad

Women competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Bonnie Blair Ye Qiaobo Christa Luding-Rothenburger 1000 m Bonnie Blair Ye Qiaobo Monique Garbrecht 1500 m Jacqueline Borner Gunda Niemann Seiko Hashimoto 3000 m Gunda Niemann Heike Warnicke Emese Hunyady 5000 m Gunda Niemann Heike Warnicke Claudia Pechstein

Results men

500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	GER	Uwe-Jens Mey	37.14
2	JPN	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	37.18
3	JPN	Junichi Inoue	37.26
4th	United States	Dan Jansen	37.46
5	JPN	Yasunori Miyabe	37.49
6th	NED	Gerard van Felde	37.49
7th	EUN	Ihar Schaljasouski	37.51
8th	EUN	Alexander Golubev	37.57
9	CHN	Song Chen	37.58
10	COR	Kim Yoon-man	37.60
23	GER	Peter Adeberg	38.33
25th	GER	Olaf Zinke	38.40
40	AUT	Roland Brunner	42.18

Date: February 15, 1992
43 participants from 17 countries, all in the ranking.

1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	GER	Olaf Zinke	1: 14.85
2	COR	Kim Yoon-man	1: 14.86
3	JPN	Yukinori Miyabe	1: 14.92
4th	NED	Gerard van Velde	1: 14.93
5	GER	Peter Adeberg	1: 15.04
6th	EUN	Ihar Schaljasouski	1: 15.05
7th	CAN	Guy Thibault	1: 15.36
8th	EUN	Nikolai Gulyayev	1: 15.46
9	JPN	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	1: 15.56
10	NED	Falko Zandstra	1: 15.57
22nd	AUT	Roland Brunner	1: 16.76
24	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	1: 17.17

Date: February 18, 1992
46 participants from 21 countries, 45 of them in the ranking.

1500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NOR	Johann Olav Koss	1: 54.61
2	NOR	Ådne Søndrål	1: 54.85
3	NED	Leo Visser	1: 54.90
4th	NED	Rintje Ritsma	1: 55.70
5	NED	Bart Veldkamp	1: 56.33
6th	GER	Olaf Zinke	1: 56.74
7th	NED	Falko Zandstra	1: 56.96
8th	NOR	Geir Karlstad	1: 56.98
9	JPN	Yukinori Miyabe	1: 56.99
10	EUN	Ihar Schaljasouski	1: 57.24
13	GER	Markus Tröger	1: 57.42
14th	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	1: 57.43
16	GER	Peter Adeberg	1: 57.54
24	AUT	Roland Brunner	1: 59.60

Date: February 16, 1992
46 participants from 21 countries, 45 of them in the ranking.

5000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NOR	Geir Karlstad	6: 59.97
2	NED	Falko Zandstra	7: 02.28
3	NED	Leo Visser	7: 04.96
4th	GER	Frank Dittrich	7: 06.33
5	NED	Bart Veldkamp	7:08.00
6th	United States	Eric Flaim	7: 11.15
7th	NOR	Johann Olav Koss	7: 11.32
8th	EUN	Yevgeny Sanarov	7: 11.38
9	SWE	Jonas Schön	7: 12.15
10	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	7: 12.97
15th	GER	Markus Tröger	7: 17.62
34	GER	Rudolf Jeklic	7: 33.15

Date: February 13, 1992
36 participants from 20 countries, all in the ranking.

10,000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NED	Bart Veldkamp	14: 12.12
2	NOR	Johann Olav Koss	14: 14.58
3	NOR	Geir Karlstad	14: 18.13
4th	NED	Robert Vunderink	14: 22.92
5	JPN	Kazuhiro Satō	14: 28.30
6th	AUT	Michael Hadschieff	14: 28.80
7th	SWE	Per Bengtsson	14: 35.58
8th	NOR	Steinar Johansen	14: 36.09
9	ITA	Roberto Sighel	14: 38.23
10	EUN	Yevgeny Sanarov	14: 38.99
15th	GER	Markus Tröger	14: 45.41
20th	GER	Frank Dittrich	14: 55.23
23	GER	Rudolf Jeklic	14: 51.89

Date: February 20, 1992
30 participants from 14 countries, 29 of them in the ranking.

Results women

500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (s)
1	United States	Bonnie Blair	40.33
2	CHN	Ye Qiaobo	40.51
3	GER	Christa Luding	40.57
4th	GER	Monique Garbrecht	40.63
5	NED	Christine Aaftink	40.66
6th	CAN	Susan too	40.83
7th	JPN	Kyoko Shimazaki	40.98
8th	GER	Angela Hauck	41.10
9	COR	Yoo Seon-hee	41.28
10	GER	Anke Baier	41.30

Date: February 10, 1992
34 participants from 12 countries, 32 of them in the evaluation.

1000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	United States	Bonnie Blair	1: 21.90
2	CHN	Ye Qiaobo	1: 21.92
3	GER	Monique Garbrecht	1: 22.10
4th	NED	Christine Aaftink	1: 22.60
5	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	1: 22.63
6th	ROME	Mihaela Dascălu	1: 22.85
7th	EUN	Elena Tjuschnjakowa	1: 22.97
8th	GER	Christa Luding	1: 23.06
9	GER	Angela Hauck	1: 23.31
10	AUT	Emese Hunyady	1: 23.40
14th	GER	Anke Baier	1: 24.11

Date: February 14, 1992
36 participants from 14 countries, 34 of them in the evaluation.

1500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	GER	Jacqueline Borner	2: 05.87
2	GER	Gunda Niemann	2: 05.92
3	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	2: 06.88
4th	EUN	Natalia Poloskova	2: 07.12
5	GER	Monique Garbrecht	2: 07.24
6th	EUN	Svetlana Bashanova	2: 07.81
7th	AUT	Emese Hunyady	2: 08.29
8th	GER	Heike Warnicke	2: 08.52
9	NED	Carla Zijlstra	2: 08.54
10	EUN	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	2: 08.71

Date: February 12, 1992
33 participants from 14 countries, 32 of them in the evaluation.

3000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	GER	Gunda Niemann	4: 19.90
2	GER	Heike Warnicke	4: 22.88
3	AUT	Emese Hunyady	4: 24.64
4th	NED	Carla Zijlstra	4: 27.18
5	EUN	Swetlana Boiko	4: 28.00
6th	NED	Yvonne van Gennip	4: 28.10
7th	EUN	Svetlana Bashanova	4: 28.19
8th	GER	Jacqueline Borner	4: 28.52
9	NED	Lia van Schie	4: 30.57
10	EUN	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	4: 30.76

Date: February 9, 1992
26 participants from 12 countries, all rated.

Gunda Niemann's gold medal was the first for a German team after reunification .

5000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	GER	Gunda Niemann	7: 31.57
2	GER	Heike Warnicke	7: 37.59
3	GER	Claudia Pechstein	7: 39.80
4th	NED	Carla Zijlstra	7: 41.10
5	EUN	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	7: 41.65
6th	EUN	Swetlana Boiko	7: 44.19
7th	EUN	Svetlana Bashanova	7: 45.55
8th	NED	Lia van Schie	7: 46.94
9	JPN	Seiko Hashimoto	7: 47.65
10	ITA	Elena Belci	7: 50.42
15th	AUT	Emese Hunyady	7: 56.48

Date: February 17th, 1992
24 participants from 11 countries, all rated.

Web links

• Speed ​​skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1992 Winter Olympics (PDF; 13.3 MB)