1998 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
	Olympic Oval (Calgary)
Venue	Olympic Oval (Calgary)
Dates	27–29 March 1998
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Dates27–29 March 1998

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details^[1]	Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan	1:10.18 35.36 34.82	Sylvain Bouchard Canada	1:10.68 35.47 35.21	Jeremy Wotherspoon Canada	1:10.88 35.60 35.28
1000 m details^[2]	Sylvain Bouchard Canada	1:09.60	Jeremy Wotherspoon Canada	1:09.67	Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan	1:09.83
1500 m details^[3]	Ådne Søndrål Norway	1:46.43	Ids Postma Netherlands	1:47.08	Roberto Sighel Italy	1:47.47
5000 m details^[4]	Gianni Romme Netherlands	6:21.49	Rintje Ritsma Netherlands	6:25.55	Bart Veldkamp Belgium	6:27.58
10000 m details^[5]	Gianni Romme Netherlands	13:08.71	Bob de Jong Netherlands	13:22.64	Frank Dittrich Germany	13:30.33

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details^[6]	Catriona Le May Doan Canada	1:15.59 37.88 37.71	Svetlana Zhurova Russia	1:16.65 38.30 38.35	Tomomi Okazaki Japan	1:16.68 38.27 38.41
1000 m details^[7]	Chris Witty United States	1:14.96	Catriona Le May Doan Canada	1:15.28	Franziska Schenk Germany	1:15.46
1500 m details^[8]	Anni Friesinger Germany	1:56.95	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany	1:57.20	Claudia Pechstein Germany	1:57.30
3000 m details^[9]	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany	4:01.67	Claudia Pechstein Germany	4:04.78	Anni Friesinger Germany	4:05.86
5000 m details^[10]	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany	6:58.63	Claudia Pechstein Germany	7:02.95	Carla Zijlstra Netherlands	7:08.94

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	3	3	4	10
2	Canada (CAN)	2	3	1	6
2	Netherlands (NED)	2	3	1	6
4	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
5	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
5	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
7	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
8	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		10	10	10	30

Medal summary