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| Venue | M-Wave (Nagano, Japan) | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 9 and 10 January 1999 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 15 from 3 nations | ||||||||||||
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The 1999 Asian Speed Skating Championships were held between 9 January and 10 January 1999 at M-Wave in Nagano, Japan.
500 meter
| 3000 meter
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1500 meter
| 5000 meter
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| Place | Athlete | Country | 500m | 3000m | 1500m | 5000m | points |
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 | Maki Tabata |  Japan | 40.19 (1) | 4:17.90 (1) | 2:02.43 (1) | 7:28.28 (2) | 168.811 |
 | Nami Nemoto | Japan | 41.99 (6) | 4:18.07 (2) | 2:05.53 (4) | 7:24.00 (1) | 171.244 |
 | Eriko Seo | Japan | 41.71 (4) | 4:20.33 (3) | 2:04.31 (2) | 7:29.40 (3) | 171.474 |
| 4 | Chiharu Nozaki | Japan | 41.08 (2) | 4:22.97 (4) | 2:04.37 (3) | 7:34.35 (4) | 171.799 |
| 5 | Aki Narita | Japan | 41.72 (5) | 4:23.41 (5) | 2:05.94 (5) | 7:37.57 (5) | 173.358 |
| 6 | Lyudmila Prokasheva |  Kazakhstan | 42.34 (7) | 4:24.16 (6) | 2:06.35 (6) | 7:48.97 (6) | 175.379 |
| NC7 | Baek Eun-Bi |  South Korea | 41.63 (3) | 4:34.59 (7) | 2:09.09 (7) | 130.425 |
500 meter
| 5000 meter
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1500 meter
| 10000 meter
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| Place | Athlete | Country | 500m | 5000m | 1500m | 10000m | points |
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| Hiroyuki Noake | Japan | 36.98 (2) | 6:45.28 (1) | 1:50.61 (1) | 14:15.54 (3) | 157.155 |
| Takahiro Nozaki | Japan | 38.01 (5) | 6:54.09 (3) | 1:53.22 (3) | 14:17.96 (4) | 160.057 |
| Kazuki Sawaguchi | Japan | 37.93 (4) | 6:53.67 (2) | 1:56.14 (6) | 14:04.98 (1) | 160.259 |
| 4 | Mamoru Ishioka | Japan | 37.82 (3) | 6:56.89 (6) | 1:54.70 (4) | 14:11.88 (2) | 160.336 |
| 5 | Choi Jae-Bong | South Korea | 36.57 (1) | 7:08.24 (7) | 1:51.69 (2) | 15:17.55 (6) | 162.501 |
| 6 | Keiji Shirahata | Japan | 38.35 (6) | 6:54.22 (4) | 1:59.93 (7) | 14:20.00 (5) | 162.748 |
| NC7 | Radik Bikchentayev | Kazakhstan | 38.46 (7) | 6:56.85 (5) | 1:54.82 (5) | 118.418 | |
| NC8 | Sergey Tsybenko | Kazakhstan | 38.77 (8) | NS | 38.770 |
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