Olympic Winter Games 2014 / Speed ​​Skating

Speed ​​skating at the XXII. Winter Olympics
information
venue	Sochi
Competition venue	Adler Arena
Nations	23
Athletes	177 (83 women and 94 men)
date	8-22 February 2014
decisions	12
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At the XXII. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi held twelve speed skating competitions. The venue was the Adler Arena in the Olympic Park directly on the Black Sea . The hall had a capacity of 8,000 spectators. It is mobile and since the games can be used in other places than z. B. Exhibition hall to be rebuilt. In the previous season, the facility was inaugurated with races in the Russian championships and was the venue for the 2013 World Single Distance Championships . The name "Adler" comes from the Sochi district in which the hall was built.

Balance sheet

Adler Arena

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Netherlands	8th	7th	8th	23
2	Poland	1	1	1	3
3	South Korea	1	1	-	2
	Czech Republic	1	1	-	2
5	People's Republic of China	1	-	-	1
6th	Russia	-	1	2	3
7th	Canada	-	1	1	2

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Michel Mulder Jan Smeekens Ronald Mulder 1000 m Stefan Groothuis Denny Morrison Michel Mulder 1500 m Zbigniew Bródka Koen Verweij Denny Morrison 5000 m Sven Kramer Jan Blokhuijsen Jorrit Bergsma 10,000 m Jorrit Bergsma Sven Kramer Bob de Jong Team tracking Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański

Women competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Lee Sang-hwa Olga Fatkulina Margot Boer 1000 m Zhang Hong Ireen Wüst Margot Boer 1500 m Jorien ter Mors Ireen Wüst Lotte van Beek 3000 m Ireen Wüst Martina Sáblíková Olga Graf 5000 m Martina Sáblíková Ireen Wüst Carien Kleibeuker Team tracking Marrit Leenstra Jorien ter Mors Lotte van Beek Ireen Wüst Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska Olga Count Ekaterina Lobysheva Ekaterina Schichowa Julija Skokowa

qualification

Starting places

• 500/1000/1500 m - 36 women each (40 men each)
• 3000/5000 m - 28 women / 28 men
• 5000 / 10,000 m - 16 women / 16 men
• Team pursuit - 4 teams women / 4 teams men

Each nation was allowed to send a maximum of 20 athletes (10 women / 10 men). If the nation did not start in a team run, the number of starters was reduced to eight athletes each. A maximum of four athletes were allowed to start on the individual 500/1000/1500 meters, three on the 3000/5000/10000 and one team (four athletes) per nation in the team run. The speed skaters had to qualify for the quota places through their performance in the current season. The basis for this was two ranking lists: List 1 listed the athletes according to the World Cup points they had achieved. Four dates were available for this until the registration deadline. List 2 listed all athletes according to the best time in the current season up to the registration deadline. The services had to be provided at separately classified ISU events.

Qualification of the German athletes

In addition to the ISU qualification criteria, the DOSB had national nomination criteria that had to be provided: 1–8 place once or 1–16 place twice were required in order to be able to be sent as an athlete to the Games.

Place of qualification:

• over 500 and 1000 m - speed skating world cup , sprint world championship
• 1500 m - speed skating world cup, all-around European championship
• 3000 (F), 5000 (M) m - Speed ​​Skating World Cup, European all-around championship
• 5000 (F), 10,000 (M) m - the ISU criteria applied here

Results men

500 m

space	country	athlete	1st run (s)	2nd run (s)	Total time (min)
1	NED	Michel Mulder	34.634	34.678	1: 09.312
2	NED	Jan Smeekens	34,599	34.725	1: 09.324
3	NED	Ronald Mulder	34.969	34,490	1: 09.459
4th	COR	Mo Tae-bum	34.840	34,850	1: 09.690
5	JPN	Jōji Katō	34.966	34.770	1: 09.736
6th	JPN	Keiichirō Nagashima	34.790	35,250	1: 10.040
7th	KAZ	Roman Kretsch	35,046	35.002	1: 10.048
8th	GER	Nico Ihle	34.990	35.110	1: 10.100
9	POLE	Artur Was	35.010	35,190	1: 10.210
10	CAN	Gilmore Junio	35,150	35.090	1: 10.250
34	GER	Samuel Black	35.690	35.680	1: 11.370

The all-Dutch podium after the 500 m race

Date: February 10, 2014, 5:00 p.m.
40 participants from 16 countries, 38 of them in the ranking.

Olympic champion 2010 : KOR I Mo Tae-bum 

1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NED	Stefan Groothuis	1: 08.39
2	CAN	Denny Morrison	1: 08.43
3	NED	Michel Mulder	1: 08.70
4th	GER	Nico Ihle	1: 08.86
5	GER	Samuel Black	1: 08.89
6th	NED	Koen Verweij	1: 09.09
7th	KAZ	Denis Kusin	1: 09.10
8th	United States	Shani Davis	1: 09.12
9	United States	Brian Hansen	1: 09.21
10	NED	Mark Tuitert	1: 09.29

Stefan Groothuis

Date: February 12, 2014, 6:00 p.m.
40 participants from 19 countries, all in the ranking.
Olympic Champion 2010 : USA I Shani Davis 

1500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	POLE	Zbigniew Bródka	1: 45.006
2	NED	Koen Verweij	1: 45.009
3	CAN	Denny Morrison	1: 45.22
4th	RUS	Denis Yuskov	1: 45.37
5	NED	Mark Tuitert	1: 45.42
6th	NOR	Håvard Bøkko	1: 45.48
7th	United States	Brian Hansen	1: 45.59
8th	NOR	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	1: 45.66
9	KAZ	Denis Kusin	1: 45.69
10	BEL	Beard swings	1: 45.95
23	GER	Patrick Beckert	1: 48.08
27	GER	Robert Lehmann	1: 48.24

Date: February 15, 2014, 5: 30–7: 25 pm
40 participants from 18 countries, 39 of them in the ranking.
Olympic Champion 2010 : NLD | Mark Tuitert 

5000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NED	Sven Kramer	6: 10.76 ( OR )
2	NED	Jan Blokhuijsen	6: 15.71
3	NED	Jorrit Bergsma	6: 16.66
4th	BEL	Beard swings	6: 17.79
5	NOR	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	6: 18.84
6th	RUS	Denis Yuskov	6: 19.51
7th	GER	Patrick Beckert	6: 21.18
8th	NOR	Håvard Bøkko	6: 22.83
9	GER	Moritz Geisreiter	6: 24.79
10	COR	Lee Seung-hoon	6: 25.61
19th	GER	Alexej Baumgartner	6: 34.34

Jan Blokhuijsen , Sven Kramer and Jorrit Bergsma at the award ceremony

Date: February 8, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
26 participants from 14 countries, 24 of them in the evaluation.
Olympic Champion 2010 : NLD I Sven Kramer 

10,000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NED	Jorrit Bergsma	12: 44.45 ( OR )
2	NED	Sven Kramer	12: 49.02
3	NED	Bob de Jong	13: 07.19
4th	COR	Lee Seung-hoon	13: 11.68
5	BEL	Beard swings	13: 13.99
6th	GER	Patrick Beckert	13: 14.26
7th	NZL	Shane Dobbin	13: 16.42
8th	GER	Moritz Geisreiter	13: 20.26
9	RUS	Yevgeny Seryaev	13: 28.61
10	United States	Emery Lehman	13: 28.67
13	GER	Alexej Baumgartner	13: 44.39

Date: February 18, 2014, 5:00 p.m.
14 participants from 9 countries, all in the ranking.
Olympic Champion 2010 : KOR I Lee Seung-hoon 

Team tracking

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	NED	Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3: 37.71 ( OR )
2	COR	Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3: 40.85
3	POLE	Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3: 41.94
4th	CAN	Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3: 44.27
5	NOR	Håvard Bøkko Sverre Lunde Pedersen Simen Player Nilsen ( Håvard Lorentzen )	3: 44.91
6th	RUS	Alexei Jessin Denis Juskow Alexander Rumjanzew ( Iwan Skobrew )	3: 49.85
7th	United States	Brian Hansen Jonathan Kuck Joey Mantia ( Shani Davis )	3: 46.50
8th	FRA	Alexis Contin Ewen Fernandez Benjamin Macé	3: 51.76

() Participation in the quarter-finals or semi-finals

Date: February 21, 2014, 5:30 p.m. (qualification)
February 22, 2014, 5:30 p.m. (finals)
Olympic champion 2010 : CAN | Mathieu Giroux / Lucas Makowsky / Denny Morrison 

Elimination runs

Quarter finals

Semifinals

A final

Canada Giroux, Makowsky, Morrison

3: 43.30

United States Hansen, Kuck, Davis

3: 46.82

South Korea Joo, Kim, Lee

3: 42.32

Canada Giroux, Makowsky, Morrison

3: 45.28

South Korea Joo, Kim, Lee

3: 40.84

Russia Rumyantsev, Yuskov, Skobrew

3: 44.22

South Korea Joo, Kim, Lee

3: 40.85

Netherlands Blokhuijsen, Kramer, Verweij

3: 37.71

Poland Bródka, Niedźwiedzki, Szymanski

3: 42.78

Norway Bøkko, Pedersen, Lorentzen

3: 43.19

Netherlands Blokhuijsen, Kramer, Verweij

3: 40.79

Poland Bródka, Niedźwiedzki, Szymanski

3: 52.08

Netherlands Blokhuijsen, Kramer, Verweij

3: 44.48

France Contin, Fernandez, Macé

3: 53.18

Results women

500 m

space	country	sportswoman	1st run (s)	2nd run (s)	Total time (min)
1	COR	Lee Sang-hwa	37.42	37.28 ( OR )	1: 14.70 (OR)
2	RUS	Olga Fatkulina	37.57	37.49	1: 15.06
3	NED	Margot Boer	37.77	37.71	1: 15.48
4th	CHN	Zhang Hong	37.58	37.99	1: 15.58
5	JPN	Nao Kodaira	37.88	37.72	1: 15.61
6th	GER	Jenny Wolf	37.93	37.73	1: 15.67
7th	CHN	Wang Beixing	37.82	37.86	1: 15.67
8th	United States	Heather Richardson	37.73	38.02	1: 15.75
9	JPN	Maki Tsuji	38.40	38.44	1: 16.84
10	CZE	Karolína Erbanová	38.23	38.62	1: 16.86
21st	GER	Denise Roth	39.08	38.69	1: 17.78
27	AUT	Vanessa Bittner	39.33	39.17	1: 18.50
34	GER	Gabriele Hirschbichler	39.82	39.69	1: 19.51

The medal winners at the award ceremony

Date: February 11, 2014, 4:45 p.m.
35 participants from 12 countries, 34 of them in the evaluation.
Olympic Champion 2010 : KOR I Lee Sang-hwa 

1000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	CHN	Zhang Hong	1: 14.02
2	NED	Ireen Wüst	1: 14.69
3	NED	Margot Boer	1: 14.90
4th	RUS	Olga Fatkulina	1: 15.08
5	NED	Lotte van Beek	1: 15.10
6th	NED	Marrit Leenstra	1: 15.15
7th	United States	Heather Richardson	1: 15.23
8th	United States	Brittany Bowe	1: 15.47
9	CAN	Christine Nesbitt	1: 15.62
10	CZE	Karolína Erbanová	1: 15.74
11	DEU	Judith Hesse	1: 15.84
24	AUT	Vanessa Bittner	1: 17.937
25th	DEU	Jenny Wolf	1: 17.99
26th	DEU	Gabriele Hirschbichler	1: 18.00

Date: February 13, 2014, 6:00 p.m.
36 participants from 13 countries, 35 of them in the evaluation.
Olympic Champion 2010 : CAN | Christine Nesbitt 

1500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	NED	Jorien ter Mors	1: 53.51 ( OR )
2	NED	Ireen Wüst	1: 54.09
3	NED	Lotte van Beek	1: 54.54
4th	NED	Marrit Leenstra	1: 56.40
5	RUS	Julia Skokova	1: 56.45
6th	POLE	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś	1: 57.18
7th	United States	Heather Richardson	1: 57.60
8th	RUS	Ekaterina Lobysheva	1: 57.70
9	RUS	Ekaterina Sheikhova	1: 58.09
10	POLE	Luiza Złotkowska	1: 58.18
18th	GER	Claudia Pechstein	1: 59.47
23	GER	Monique Angermüller	2: 00.32
29	GER	Gabriele Hirschbichler	2: 01.18
33	AUT	Vanessa Bittner	2: 02.84

The all-Dutch podium after the 1500 m race

Date: February 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m.
36 participants from 13 countries, 35 of them in the evaluation.
Olympic champion 2010 : NED I Ireen Wüst 

3000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	NED	Ireen Wüst	4: 00.34
2	CZE	Martina Sáblíková	4: 01.95
3	RUS	Olga Graf	4: 03.47
4th	GER	Claudia Pechstein	4: 05.26
5	NED	Annouk van der Weijden	4: 05.75
6th	NOR	Ida Njåtun	4: 06.73
7th	NED	Antoinette de Jong	4: 06.77
8th	RUS	Julia Skokova	4: 09.36
9	JPN	Shiho Ishizawa	4: 09.39
10	United States	Jilleanne Rookard	4: 10.02
11	GER	Bente Kraus	4: 10.17
17th	GER	Stephanie Beckert	4: 13.55
22nd	AUT	Anna Rokita	4: 16.43

Ireen Wüst after winning the gold medal

Date: February 9, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
28 participants from 13 countries, 27 of them in the evaluation.
Olympic champion 2010 : CZE I Martina Sáblíková 

5000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	CZE	Martina Sáblíková	6: 51.54
2	NED	Ireen Wüst	6: 54.28
3	NED	Carien Kleibeuker	6: 55.66
4th	RUS	Olga Graf	6: 55.77
5	GER	Claudia Pechstein	6: 58.39
6th	NED	Yvonne Nauta	7: 01.76
7th	NOR	Mari Hemmer	7: 04.45
8th	GER	Stephanie Beckert	7: 07.79
9	RUS	Anna Chernova	7: 08.71
10	JPN	Shoko Fujimura	7: 09.65
11	GER	Bente Kraus	7: 10.65

Date: February 19, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
16 participants from 9 countries, all in the ranking.
Olympic champion 2010 : CZE I Martina Sáblíková 

Team tracking

space	country	Sportswomen	Time (min)
1	NED	Marrit Leenstra Jorien ter Mors Ireen Wüst ( Lotte van Beek )	2: 58.05 ( OR )
2	POLE	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska ( Natalia Czerwonka )	3: 05.55
3	RUS	Olga Graf Jekaterina Lobysheva Julija Skokowa ( Jekaterina Schichowa )	2: 59.73
4th	JPN	Misaki Oshigiri Maki Tabata Nan Takagi ( Ayaka Kikuchi )	3: 02.57
5	CAN	Ivanie Blondin Kali Christ Brittany Schussler ( Christine Nesbitt )	3: 02.04
6th	United States	Brittany Bowe Heather Richardson Jilleanne Rookard	3: 03.77
7th	NOR	Hege Bøkko Camilla Farestveit Ida Njåtun ( Mari Hemmer )	3: 08.35
8th	COR	Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong Yang Shin-young	3: 11.54

() Participation in the quarter-finals or semi-finals

Date: February 21, 2014, 5:30 p.m. (qualification)
February 22, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
Olympic champions 2010 : DEU | Daniela Anschütz-Thoms / Stephanie Beckert / Katrin Mattscherodt / Anni Friesinger-Postma 

Elimination runs

Quarter finals

Semifinals

A final

Russia Graf, Lobysheva, Skokowa

3: 01.53

Canada Christ, Schussler, Nesbitt

3: 02.06

Russia Graf, Skokowa, Schichowa

3: 02.09

Poland Bachleda-Curuś, Woźniak, Złotkowska

3: 00.60

Poland Bachleda-Curuś, Woźniak, Złotkowska

3: 02.12

Norway Bøkko, Njåtun, Hemmer

3: 05.13

Poland Bachleda-Curuś, Czerwonka, Złotkowska

3: 05.55

Netherlands ter Mors, Leenstra, Wüst

2: 58.05

Japan Oshigiri, Tabata, Takagi

3: 03.99

South Korea Kim, Noh, Yang

3: 05.28

Netherlands ter Mors, Leenstra, Wüst

2: 58.43

Japan Oshigiri, Kikuchi, Takagi

3: 10.19

Netherlands ter Mors, van Beek, Wüst

2: 58.61

United States Bowe, Richardson, Rookard

3: 02.21

Web links

Commons : Speed ​​Skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Speed ​​skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results ( Memento from July 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 3.7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sochi2014.com/…/speed_skating
2. ↑ Special Regulations & Technical Rules . (PDF) p. 20
3. ↑ Announcement of International Speed ​​Skating… Competitions 2013/14 ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)
4. ↑ Nomination criteria for Sotschi ( memento from November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 774 kB) dosb.de, Deutsche Eisschnelllauf-Gemeinschaf, p. 17