Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Speed skating
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	M-Wave
Dates	8–20 February 1998
No. of events	10
Competitors	169 from 25 nations
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Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics, was held from 8 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at M-Wave.^[1]^[2] The Netherlands dominated the Nagano speed skating events, winning five gold medals and eleven medals overall, their highest total in any Winter games up until that point. Bart Veldkamp's bronze medal was the first in speed skating for Belgium, and the first at the Winter Games for the country in 50 years. Lyudmila Prokasheva's bronze medal for Kazakhstan was that country's first in the sport as well, and Prokasheva became the first woman from Kazakhstan to earn an Olympic medal.

VenueM-Wave

Dates8–20 February 1998

No. of events10

Competitors169 from 25 nations

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Gianni Romme and Marianne Timmer led the individual medal tables, with two gold each.

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	5	4	2	11
2	Germany	2	3	1	6
3	Canada	1	2	2	5
4	Japan	1	0	2	3
5	Norway	1	0	0	1
6	United States	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	0	0	1	1
7	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	10	30

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan	1:11.35	Jeremy Wotherspoon Canada	1:11.84	Kevin Overland Canada	1:11.86
1000 metres details	Ids Postma Netherlands	1:10.64 (OR)	Jan Bos Netherlands	1:10.71	Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan	1:11.00
1500 metres details	Ådne Søndrål Norway	1:47.87 WR	Ids Postma Netherlands	1:48.13	Rintje Ritsma Netherlands	1:48.52
5000 metres details	Gianni Romme Netherlands	6:22.20 WR	Rintje Ritsma Netherlands	6:28.24	Bart Veldkamp Belgium	6:28.31
10,000 metres details	Gianni Romme Netherlands	13:15.33 WR	Bob de Jong Netherlands	13:25.76	Rintje Ritsma Netherlands	13:28.19

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Catriona Le May Doan Canada	1:16.60	Susan Auch Canada	1:16.93	Tomomi Okazaki Japan	1:17.10
1000 metres details	Marianne Timmer Netherlands	1:16.51 (OR)	Chris Witty United States	1:16.79	Catriona Le May Doan Canada	1:17.37
1500 metres details	Marianne Timmer Netherlands	1:57.58 WR	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany	1:58.66	Chris Witty United States	1:58.97
3000 metres details	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany	4:07.29 (OR)	Claudia Pechstein Germany	4:08.47	Anni Friesinger-Postma Germany	4:09.44
5000 metres details	Claudia Pechstein Germany	6:59.61 WR	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany	6:59.65	Lyudmila Prokasheva Kazakhstan	7:11.14

Event	Date	Team	Time	OR	WR
Men's 500 metres	9 February	Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN)	35.76	OR
Men's 500 metres	11 February	Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN)	35.59	OR
Men's 1000 metres	15 February	Ids Postma (NED)	1:10.64	OR
Men's 1500 metres	12 February	Ådne Søndrål (NOR)	1:47.87	OR	WR
Men's 5000 metres	8 February	Gianni Romme (NED)	6:22.20	OR	WR
Men's 10000 metres	17 February	Gianni Romme (NED)	13:15.33	OR	WR
Women's 500 metres	13 February	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	38.39	OR
Women's 500 metres	14 February	Catriona Le May Doan (CAN)	38.21	OR
Women's 1000 metres	19 February	Marianne Timmer (NED)	1:16.51	OR
Women's 1500 metres	16 February	Marianne Timmer (NED)	1:57.58	OR	WR
Women's 3000 metres	11 February	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (GER)	4:07.29	OR
Women's 5000 metres	20 February	Claudia Pechstein (GER)	6:59.61	OR	WR

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