2000 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
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| World Allround Speed Skating Championships | |||||||||||||
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 Pettit National Ice Center | |||||||||||||
| Location | Milwaukee, United States | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Pettit National Ice Center | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 5–6 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 48 | ||||||||||||
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The 2000 World Allround Speed Skating Championships was held on 5–6 February 2000 in the Pettit National Ice Center in Milwaukee.
Title defenders from the 1999 Championship in the Hamar Vikingskipet were Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (Germany) and Rintje Ritsma (Netherlands).
German Claudia Pechstein and Dutchman Gianni Romme became world champion.
24 skaters, 13 from Europe (Germany (4), Netherlands (4), Norway (2), Russia (2) and Austria (1)), 4 from North-America (Canada (3) and the United States (1)), 7 from Asia (Japan (3), China (2), Kazakhstan (1) and South Korea (1)), participated. Seven skaters made their World Championship debut.
Emese Hunyady (4th place) participated in her 15th WC Allround tournament and was the first female to reach this milestone.
Men's championships
Allround results
| Place | Athlete | Country | Points | 500 m | 5000 m | 1500 m | 10000 m |
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 | Gianni Romme |  Netherlands | 153.277 | 37.68 (12) | 6:26.14 (1) | 1:50.36 (4) | 13:23.94 (1) |
 | Ids Postma | Netherlands | 155.433 | 36.56 (3) | 6:40.89 (7) | 1:50.28 (3) | 14:00.48 (9) |
 | Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands | 155.822 | 37.20 (7) | 6:40.70 (6) | 1:50.46 (5) | 13:54.65 (7) |
| 4 | Bart Veldkamp |  Belgium | 156.072 | 38.39 (19) | 6:36.78 (3) | 1:50.90 (7) | 13:40.77 (2) |
| 5 | Roberto Sighel |  Italy | 156.380 | 37.49 (10) | 6:40.50 (5) | 1:51.22 (8) | 13:55.35 (8) |
| 6 | Keiji Shirahata |  Japan | 156.701 | 38.08 (16) | 6:38.88 (4) | 1:52.42 (14) | 13:45.20 (4) |
| 7 | Hiroyuki Noake | Japan | 156.771 | 37.11 (6) | 6:42.73 (9) | 1:50.60 (6) | 14:10.45 (10) |
| 8 | Frank Dittrich |  Germany | 157.839 | 39.08 (23) | 6:36.02 (2) | 1:54.17 (22) | 13:42.03 (3) |
| 9 | Kevin Marshall |  Canada | 157.914 | 37.20 (7) | 6:46.01 (14) | 1:51.78 (10) | 14:17.07 (11) |
| 10 | Ådne Søndrål |  Norway | 158.108 | 36.08 (2) | 6:54.08 (22) | 1:47.82 (1) | 14:53.41 *(12) |
| 11 | Knut Morgenstern | Germany | 158.354 | 38.30 (18) | 6:42.68 (8) | 1:55.09 (23) | 13:48.46 (5) |
| 12 | Martin Feigenwinter |  Switzerland | 161.339 | 40.35 (24) | 6:43.00 (10) | 1:57.06 (24) | 13:53.38 (6) |
| NQ13 | Sergej Tsibenko |  Kazakhstan | 115.564 | 37.34 (9) | 6:49.54 (19) | 1:51.81 (11) | |
| NQ14 | Derek Parra |  United States | 115.630 | 37.49 (10) | 6:46.34 (15) | 1:52.52 (15) | |
| NQ15 | Eskil Ervik | Norway | 115.674 | 37.76 (13) | 6:47.74 (18) | 1:51.42 (9) | |
| NQ16 | K. C. Boutiette | United States | 115.856 | 37.09 (5) | 6:49.63 (20) | 1:53.41 (19) | |
| NQ17 | Steven Elm | Canada | 116.004 | 37.81 (14) | 6:46.74 (16) | 1:52.56 (16) | |
| NQ18 | Mark Knoll | Canada | 116.376 | 38.08 (16) | 6:45.16 (12) | 1:53.34 (18) | |
| NQ19 | Vadim Sayutin |  Russia | 116.463 | 38.69 (21) | 6:43.13 (11) | 1:52.38 (13) | |
| NQ20 | Petter Andersen | Norway | 116.490 | 36.68 (4) | 7:13.80 *(23) | 1:49.29 (2) | |
| NQ21 | Takahiro Nozaki | Japan | 116.640 | 37.93 (15) | 6:51.64 (21) | 1:52.64 (17) | |
| NQ22 | Paweł Zygmunt |  Poland | 117.103 | 38.70 (22) | 6:45.43 (13) | 1:53.58 (20) | |
| NQ23 | Marnix ten Kortenaar |  Austria | 117.256 | 38.62 (20) | 6:47.13 (17) | 1:53.77 (21) | |
| NQ24 | Choi Jae-bong |  South Korea | 117.439 | 36.01 (1) | 7:21.29 (24) | 1:51.90 (12) |
- bold indicates championships record
- * = with fall
- NQ = Not qualified for the 10000 m (only the best 12 are qualified)
- NF = not finished
- NS = not started
- DQ = disqualified
