2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Adler Arena (Sochi)
Dates	21–24 March 2013
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The 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships took place between 21 and 24 March 2013 in the Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia. It was a test event for the 2014 Olympic Games. ^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Events
21 March	16:35	1500 m men
	17:30	3000 m women
22 March	15:00	1000 m men
	15:51	1500 m women
	16:53	5000 m men
23 March	13:30	1000 m women
	14:25	10000 m men
	17:35	5000 m women
24 March	15:00	500 m women
		500 m men
	18:06	Team pursuit women
		Team pursuit men

Source: schaatsen.nl ^[2] & ISU.org ^[3]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details	Mo Tae-bum   South Korea	69.760 TR	Joji Kato   Japan	+0.06	Jan Smeekens   Netherlands	+0.10
1000 m details	Denis Kuzin   Kazakhstan	1:09.14 TR	Mo Tae-bum   South Korea	+0.10	Shani Davis   United States	+0.16
1500 m details	Denis Yuskov   Russia	1:46.32 TR	Shani Davis   United States	+0.51	Ivan Skobrev   Russia	+0.65
5000 m details	Sven Kramer   Netherlands	6:14.41 TR	Jorrit Bergsma   Netherlands	+3.53	Ivan Skobrev   Russia	+3.90
10000 m details	Jorrit Bergsma   Netherlands	12:57.69 TR	Sven Kramer   Netherlands	+2.02	Bob de Jong   Netherlands	+2.57
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:42.03 TR	South Korea Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	+2.57	Poland Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	+3.19

Source: ISU ^[4]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details	Lee Sang-hwa   South Korea	75.347 TR	Wang Beixing   China	+0.70	Olga Fatkulina   Russia	+0.75
1000 m details	Olga Fatkulina   Russia	1:15.44 TR	Ireen Wüst   Netherlands	+0.27	Brittany Bowe   United States	+0.43
1500 m details	Ireen Wüst   Netherlands	1:55.38 TR	Lotte van Beek   Netherlands	+2.64	Christine Nesbitt   Canada	+2.69
3000 m details	Ireen Wüst   Netherlands	4:02.43 TR	Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	+2.37	Claudia Pechstein   Germany	+5.32
5000 m details	Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	6:54.31 TR	Ireen Wüst   Netherlands	+8.65	Claudia Pechstein   Germany	+9.76
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg Ireen Wüst	3:00.02 TR	Poland Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska	+4.89	South Korea Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong Park Do-yeong	+5.30

Source: ISU ^[4]

Medal table

The gold medal

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands  (NED)	6	5	2	13
2	South Korea  (KOR)	2	2	1	5
3	Russia  (RUS)	2	0	3	5
4	Czech Republic  (CZE)	1	1	0	2
5	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
6	United States  (USA)	0	1	2	3
7	Poland  (POL)	0	1	1	2
8	China  (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan  (JPN)	0	1	0	1
10	Germany  (GER)	0	0	2	2
11	Canada  (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36

References

1. "Essent ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships 2013 - Preview - International Skating Union".
2. "Essent ISU WK Afstanden 2013". schaatsen.nl. Archived from the original on 2013-03-23. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
3. "Announcement (Event Calendar)". ISU.org. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
4. "ISU Results". ISU. Retrieved 22 March 2013.