| 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships | |||||||||||||
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| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 9–11 March | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 46 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
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The 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from 9 to 11 March 2018. [1]
All times are local (UTC+1).
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 9 March | 19:30 | Women's 500 m |
| Women's 3000 m | ||
| 10 March | 16:15 | Men's 500 m |
| Women's 1500 m | ||
| Men's 5000 m | ||
| Women's 5000 m | ||
| 11 March | 13:30 | Men's 1500 m |
| Men's 10000 m |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 |  Japan (JPN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 |  Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men [2] | Patrick Roest Netherlands | 154.547 | Sverre Lunde Pedersen Norway | 154.941 | Marcel Bosker Netherlands | 155.953 |
| Women [3] | Miho Takagi Japan | 166.905 | Ireen Wüst Netherlands | 167.758 | Annouk van der Weijden Netherlands | 169.840 |
The World Allround Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of the world. The event is held over two days, with all skaters entering the first three distances and the best eight skaters over these distances getting to ride the last event. The results of the races are converted to points, and the skater with lowest total score wins the championship.
Sven Kramer is a retired Dutch long track speed skater who has won an all time record nine World Allround Championships as well as a record ten European Allround Championships. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meters at the Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics, and won a record 21 gold medals at the World Single Distance Championships; eight in the 5000 meters, five in the 10,000 meters, and eight in the team pursuit. Kramer is the current world record holder in the team pursuit, and broke the world records in the 5000 meter and 10,000 meter events three times. By winning the 2010 World Allround Championship, Kramer became the first speed skater in history to win four consecutive world allround championships, and eight consecutive international allround championships. He was undefeated in the 18 international allround championships he participated in from the 2006/2007 season until the 2016/2017 season. From November 2007 to March 2009 he was ranked first in the Adelskalender, but despite his dominance as an all-round skater he has since been overtaken on that list by Shani Davis and, more recently, by his team mate Patrick Roest.
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Karolína Erbanová is a Czech ice hockey player and retired long-track speed skater. She won a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in the 500 m event in speed skating. She is a member of the Czech national ice hockey team and is signed with HPK Kiekkonaiset in the Naisten Liiga (NSML) for the 2022–23 season.
Patrick Roest is a Dutch professional long track speed skater who has won the World Allround Speed Skating Championships three times. He is a member of the commercial team of Jumbo-Visma.
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The 56th edition of the Men's World Allround Speed Skating Championships was held on 11 and 12 February 1995 at the Ice Rink Piné, Baselga di Pinè in Italy.
