Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Richmond Olympic Oval
Dates	13–27 February 2010
No. of events	12
Competitors	177 from 24 nations
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Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at the Richmond Olympic Oval, Richmond, British Columbia, between 13 and 27 February 2010. ^[1]

Notes

Haralds Silovs became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track (1500 m) and long track (5000 m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day. He competed in the 5000 m and then raced across town to the 1500 m event. The low altitude of Vancouver and high humidity inside the Richmond Olympic Oval, set just 3 metres above the sea, contributed to the fact that no world records in speed skating were set at these Games. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	2	0	5
2	Netherlands	3	1	3	7
3	Canada	2	1	2	5
4	Czech Republic	2	0	1	3
5	Germany	1	3	0	4
6	United States	1	2	1	4
7	Japan	0	2	1	3
8	Russia	0	1	1	2
9	China	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details [7]	Mo Tae-bum   South Korea	69.82	Keiichiro Nagashima   Japan	69.98	Joji Kato   Japan	70.01
1000 metres details [8]	Shani Davis   United States	1:08.94	Mo Tae-bum   South Korea	1:09.12	Chad Hedrick   United States	1:09.32
1500 metres details [9]	Mark Tuitert   Netherlands	1:45.57	Shani Davis   United States	1:46.10	Håvard Bøkko   Norway	1:46.13
5000 metres details [10]	Sven Kramer   Netherlands	6:14.60 OR	Lee Seung-hoon   South Korea	6:16.95	Ivan Skobrev   Russia	6:18.05
10000 metres details [11]	Lee Seung-hoon   South Korea	12:58.55 OR	Ivan Skobrev   Russia	13:02.07	Bob de Jong   Netherlands	13:06.73
Team pursuit details [12]	Canada Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:41.37	United States Brian Hansen Chad Hedrick Jonathan Kuck Trevor Marsicano *	3:41.58	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers * Mark Tuitert	3:39.95 OR

* Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details [13]	Lee Sang-hwa   South Korea	76.09	Jenny Wolf   Germany	76.14	Wang Beixing   China	76.63
1000 metres details [14]	Christine Nesbitt   Canada	1:16.56	Annette Gerritsen   Netherlands	1:16.58	Laurine van Riessen   Netherlands	1:16.72
1500 metres details [15]	Ireen Wüst   Netherlands	1:56.89	Kristina Groves   Canada	1:57.14	Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	1:57.96
3000 metres details [16]	Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	4:02.53	Stephanie Beckert   Germany	4:04.62	Kristina Groves   Canada	4:04.84
5000 metres details [17]	Martina Sáblíková   Czech Republic	6:50.91	Stephanie Beckert   Germany	6:51.39	Clara Hughes   Canada	6:55.73
Team pursuit details [18]	Germany Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Stephanie Beckert Anni Friesinger-Postma * Katrin Mattscherodt	3:02.82	Japan Masako Hozumi Nao Kodaira Maki Tabata	3:02.84	Poland Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:03.73

* Skater who did not participate in the final, but received a medal.

Events

A total of twelve speed skating events were held at Vancouver 2010:

Men	Women
500 m	500 m
1000 m	1000 m
1500 m	1500 m
5000 m	3000 m
10000 m	5000 m
Team pursuit	Team pursuit

Competition schedule

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Day	Date	Start	Finish	Event	Phase
Day 2	Saturday, 13 February 2010	12:00	14:20	5000 m men
Day 3	Sunday, 14 February 2010	13:00	14:50	3000 m women
Day 4	Monday, 15 February 2010	15:30	18:50	500 m men
Day 5	Tuesday, 16 February 2010	13:00	16:05	500 m women
Day 6	Wednesday, 17 February 2010	16:00	17:30	1000 m men
Day 7	Thursday, 18 February 2010	13:00	14:25	1000 m women
Day 9	Saturday, 20 February 2010	16:15	18:00	1500 m men
Day 10	Sunday, 21 February 2010	15:00	16:35	1500 m women
Day 12	Tuesday, 23 February 2010	11:00	13:45	10000 m men
Day 13	Wednesday, 24 February 2010	13:00	14:35	5000 m women
Day 15	Friday, 26 February 2010	12:30	14:20	Team pursuit men	Heats
				Team pursuit women	Heats
Day 16	Saturday, 27 February 2010	12:30	14:25	Team pursuit men	Finals
				Team pursuit women	Finals

Qualification times

Event	Women	Men
500 m	39.50	36.00
1000 m	1:18.50	1:11.00
1500 m	2:00.00	1:49.00
3000 m	4:15.50	n.a.
5000 m	7:20.00 or 4:10.00 (3000 m)	6:35.00
10000 m	n.a.	13:30.00 or 6:30.00 (5000 m)

Participating nations

A total of 177 athletes from 24 nations participated (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).

•   Australia  (1)
•   Austria  (1)
•   Belarus  (1)
•   Canada  (15)
•   China  (14)
•   Czech Republic  (2)
•   Denmark  (1)
•   Finland  (4)
•   France  (2)
•   Germany  (13)
•   Italy  (5)
•   Japan  (19)
•   Kazakhstan  (4)
•   Latvia  (1)
•   Netherlands  (19)
•   New Zealand  (1)
•   North Korea  (1)
•   Norway  (8)
•   Poland  (10)
•   Russia  (17)
•   South Korea  (16)
•   Sweden  (3)
•   Switzerland  (1)
•   United States  (18)

References

1. "Speed Skating at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
2. "Latvia's quick-change artist makes Olympic history". Toronto Star. 14 February 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
3. Harris, Beth (13 February 2010). "Latvian speedskater is 1st to do double duty". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 February 2010.^{[ dead link ]}
4. Crouse, Karen (13 February 2010). "From Long Track to Short Track, an Unprecedented Journey". New York Times. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
5. Agence France Presse (14 February 2010). "Latvian skater makes Olympic history". CTV Olympics. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
6. Associated Press (30 January 2010). "Crosstown Ride to a Speedskating First". New York Times. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
7. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 500 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
8. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 1000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
9. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 1500 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
10. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 5000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
11. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 10,000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
12. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Team pursuit Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
13. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 500 meters Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
14. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 1000 meters Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
15. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 1500 meters Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
16. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 3000 meters Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
17. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games 5000 meters Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
18. "Results of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Team pursuit Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.

External links

• Qualification System
• Qualification times
• Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule v12