Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics (original) (raw)

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Speed Skatingat the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Gangneung Oval
Dates	10–24 February 2018
No. of events	14 (7 men, 7 women)
Competitors	184 from 29 nations
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Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Gangneung Oval in Gangneung, South Korea between 10 and 24 February 2018.[1]

A total quota of 180 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (maximum 100 men and 80 women). Countries were assigned quotas based on the results of the entire 2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Cup in the autumn of 2017. Each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of three athletes per gender for all events apart from the 5000m, 10,000m and mass start events, for which they could enter a maximum of two athletes per event.[2]

Competition schedule

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The following was the competition schedule for all speed skating events.[3] With the exception of the Team pursuit events, all rounds of each event were concluded within a single session.

All times are (UTC+9).

* Host nation (South Korea)

a Skaters who did not participate in the final of the team pursuit event, but received medals as part of the team, having taken part in an earlier round.

World & Olympic records

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Eight Olympic records (OR) and five Sea level world bests (WB) were set during the competition.

Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 5000 metres	11 February	Pair 10	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:09.76	OR	[18]
Women's 1000 metres	14 February	Pair 12	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:13.56	ORWB (sea level)	[19]
Men's 10,000 metres	15 February	Pair 5	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	12:39.77	OR	[20]
Women's 500 metres	18 February	Pair 14	Nao Kodaira	Japan	36.94	ORWB (sea level)	[21]
Women's team pursuit	19 February	Quarterfinal 1	Antoinette de JongMarrit LeenstraIreen Wüst	Netherlands	2:55.61	ORWB (sea level)	[22]
Men's 500 metres	19 February	Pair 16	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	34.41	OR	[23]
Men's team pursuit	21 February	Semifinal 2	Håvard BøkkoSimen Spieler NilsenSverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	3:37.08	ORWB (sea level)	[24]
Women's team pursuit	21 February	Final	Ayano SatoMiho TakagiNana Takagi	Japan	2:53.89	ORWB (sea level)	[25]

The Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the women's 3000m event, making it a Dutch podium sweep.[26]

Participating nations

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A total of 184 athletes from 29 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).[27] Colombia was scheduled to make its debut in the sport. A record number of nations qualified to compete in these games, with the previous high being 25 at the 1998 Winter Olympics.[28][29]

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• Official Results Book – Speed Skating