Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'anneau de vitesse
Dates	9–20 February 1992
No. of events	10
Competitors	154 from 23 nations
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Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, was held from 9 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at L'anneau de vitesse. It was the last time in Winter Olympics in which speed skating events were contested in an outdoor ice rink. ^{[1] [2]}

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	3	3	11
2	Norway	2	2	1	5
3	United States	2	0	0	2
4	Netherlands	1	1	2	4
5	China	0	2	0	2
6	Japan	0	1	3	4
7	South Korea	0	1	0	1
8	Austria	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		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 details	Uwe-Jens Mey   Germany	37.14	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa   Japan	37.18	Junichi Inoue   Japan	37.26
1000 metres details	Olaf Zinke   Germany	1:14.85	Kim Yoon-man   South Korea	1:14.86	Yukinori Miyabe   Japan	1:14.92
1500 metres details	Johann Olav Koss   Norway	1:54.81	Ådne Søndrål   Norway	1:54.85	Leo Visser   Netherlands	1:54.90
5000 metres details	Geir Karlstad   Norway	6:59.97	Falko Zandstra   Netherlands	7:02.28	Leo Visser   Netherlands	7:04.96
10,000 metres details	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 details	Bonnie Blair   United States	40.33	Ye Qiaobo   China	40.51	Christa Luding   Germany	40.57
1000 metres details	Bonnie Blair   United States	1:21.90	Ye Qiaobo   China	1:21.92	Monique Garbrecht   Germany	1:22.10
1500 metres details	Jacqueline Börner   Germany	2:05.87	Gunda Niemann   Germany	2:05.92	Seiko Hashimoto   Japan	2:06.88
3000 metres details	Gunda Niemann   Germany	4:19.90	Heike Warnicke   Germany	4:22.88	Emese Hunyady   Austria	4:24.64
5000 metres details	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 (as of today the last speed skating outdoor rink in Winter Games history) was not conducive to fast times. ^{[3] [4]}

Participating NOCs

Twenty-three nations competed in the speed skating events at Albertville. The Unified Team was in essence a Soviet team under a different name as the USSR collapsed several months prior to the Games' start.

•   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

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