Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Speed skating
at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating; at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'anneau de vitesse
Dates	9–20 February
No. of events	10
Competitors	154 from 23 nations

Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, was held from 9 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at L'anneau de vitesse.[1][2]

Medal summary

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	3	3	11
2	Norway (NOR)	2	2	1	5
3	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
4	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	4
5	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
6	Japan (JPN)	0	1	3	4
7	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		10	10	10	30

Germany, in its first Olympics since reunification, topped the medal table with five gold medals, and eleven total medals. All the medals were won by athletes from the former East Germany. Germany's Gunda Niemann led the individual medal table with two golds and a silver, and Norway's Johan Olav Koss was the most successful male skater, with one gold and one silver.

South Korea's Kim Yoon-Man and China's Ye Qiaobo became the first ever medalists for their countries at the Winter Olympics. Bonnie Blair collected two gold medals to become the second most successful female speed skater of the games.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Uwe-Jens Mey Germany	37.14	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Japan	37.18	Junichi Inoue Japan	37.26
1000 metres	Olaf Zinke Germany	1:14.85	Kim Yoon-man South Korea	1:14.86	Yukinori Miyabe Japan	1:14.92
1500 metres	Johann Olav Koss Norway	1:54.81	Ådne Søndrål Norway	1:54.85	Leo Visser Netherlands	1:54.90
5000 metres	Geir Karlstad Norway	6:59.97	Falko Zandstra Netherlands	7:02.28	Leo Visser Netherlands	7:04.96
10,000 metres	Bart Veldkamp Netherlands	14:12.12	Johann Olav Koss Norway	14:14.58	Geir Karlstad Norway	14:18.13

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Bonnie Blair United States	40.33	Ye Qiaobo China	40.51	Christa Luding Germany	40.57
1000 metres	Bonnie Blair United States	1:21.90	Ye Qiaobo China	1:21.92	Monique Garbrecht Germany	1:22.10
1500 metres	Jacqueline Börner Germany	2:05.87	Gunda Niemann Germany	2:05.92	Seiko Hashimoto Japan	2:06.88
3000 metres	Gunda Niemann Germany	4:19.90	Heike Warnicke Germany	4:22.88	Emese Hunyady Austria	4:24.64
5000 metres	Gunda Niemann Germany	7:31.57	Heike Warnicke Germany	7:37.59	Claudia Pechstein Germany	7:39.80

Records

There were no Olympic or World records set at the 1992 Games, as the outdoor rink in Albertville was not conducive to fast times.[3][4]

Participating NOCs

Twenty-three nations competed in the speed skating events at Albertville. The Unified Team made its only Olympic appearance.

Australia (2)
Austria (3)
Canada (9)
China (10)
Unified Team (19)
Finland (2)
France (1)
Great Britain (1)
Germany (14)
Hungary (2)
Italy (4)
Japan (15)
South Korea (5)
Mongolia (2)
Netherlands (14)
Norway (8)
Poland (4)
North Korea (5)
Romania (3)
Sweden (8)
Czechoslovakia (2)
United States (19)
Yugoslavia (2)

References

"Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
"Speed Skating at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
"ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
"ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

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[OfficialReport-1] "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

[SR-2] "Speed Skating at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2019.

[ISUWR-3] "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

[ISUOlyR-4] "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.