Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Speed Skating
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Speed Skating; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
	Speed skating pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Gangneung Oval
Dates	10–24 February 2018
No. of events	14 (7 men, 7 women)
Competitors	184 from 29 nations
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Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Gangneung Oval in Gangneung, South Korea between 10 and 24 February 2018.^[1]

Qualification

A total quota of 180 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (maximum 100 men and 80 women). Countries were assigned quotas based on the results of the entire 2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Cup in the autumn of 2017. Each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of three athletes per gender for all events apart from the 5000m, 10,000m and mass start events, for which they could enter a maximum of two athletes per event.^[2]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all speed skating events.^[3] With the exception of the Team pursuit events, all rounds of each event were concluded within a single session.

All times are (UTC+9).

Day	Date	Start	Event
Day 1	Saturday, 10 February 2018	20:00	Women's 3000 metres
Day 2	Sunday, 11 February 2018	16:00	Men's 5000 metres
Day 3	Monday, 12 February 2018	21:30	Women's 1500 metres
Day 4	Tuesday, 13 February 2018	20:00	Men's 1500 metres
Day 5	Wednesday, 14 February 2018	19:00	Women's 1000 metres
Day 6	Thursday, 15 February 2018	20:00	Men's 10,000 metres
Day 7	Friday, 16 February 2018	20:00	Women's 5000 metres
Day 9	Sunday, 18 February 2018	20:00	Team pursuit men – Heats
Day 9	Sunday, 18 February 2018	20:00	Women's 500 metres
Day 10	Monday, 19 February 2018	20:00	Team pursuit women – Heats
Day 10	Monday, 19 February 2018	20:00	Men's 500 metres
Day 12	Wednesday, 21 February 2018	20:00	Team pursuit men – Finals
Day 12	Wednesday, 21 February 2018	20:00	Team pursuit women – Finals
Day 14	Friday, 23 February 2018	19:00	Men's 1000 metres
Day 15	Saturday, 24 February 2018	20:00	Mass start men
Day 15	Saturday, 24 February 2018	20:00	Mass start women

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (South Korea)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	7	4	5	16
2	Japan	3	2	1	6
3	Norway	2	1	1	4
4	South Korea*	1	4	2	7
5	Canada	1	1	0	2
6	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	0	1	0	1
8	China	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Olympic Athletes from Russia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres^[4] details	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Norway	34.41 OR	Cha Min-kyu South Korea	34.42	Gao Tingyu China	34.65
1000 metres^[5] details	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:07.95	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Norway	1:07.99	Kim Tae-yun South Korea	1:08.22
1500 metres^[6] details	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	1:44.01	Patrick Roest Netherlands	1:44.86	Kim Min-seok South Korea	1:44.93
5000 metres^[7] details	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:09.76 OR	Ted-Jan Bloemen Canada	6:11.616	Sverre Lunde Pedersen Norway	6:11.618
10,000 metres^[8] details	Ted-Jan Bloemen Canada	12:39.77 OR	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	12:41.98	Nicola Tumolero Italy	12:54.32
Mass start^[9] details	Lee Seung-hoon South Korea	60	Bart Swings Belgium	40	Koen Verweij Netherlands	20
Team pursuit^[10] details	Norway Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen Sindre Henriksen^[a]	3:37.32	South Korea Lee Seung-hoon Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok	3:38.52	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Patrick Roest Koen Verweij^[a]	3:38.40

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres^[11] details	Nao Kodaira Japan	36.94 OR	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	37.33	Karolína Erbanová Czech Republic	37.34
1000 metres^[12] details	Jorien ter Mors Netherlands	1:13.56 OR	Nao Kodaira Japan	1:13.82	Miho Takagi Japan	1:13.98
1500 metres^[13] details	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:54.35	Miho Takagi Japan	1:54.55	Marrit Leenstra Netherlands	1:55.26
3000 metres^[14] details	Carlijn Achtereekte Netherlands	3:59.21	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	3:59.29	Antoinette de Jong Netherlands	4:00.02
5000 metres^[15] details	Esmee Visser Netherlands	6:50.23	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:51.85	Natalya Voronina Olympic Athletes from Russia	6:53.98
Mass start^[16] details	Nana Takagi Japan	60	Kim Bo-reum South Korea	40	Irene Schouten Netherlands	20
Team pursuit^[17] details	Japan Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nana Takagi Ayaka Kikuchi^[a]	2:53.89 OR	Netherlands Antoinette de Jong Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst Lotte van Beek^[a]	2:55.48	United States Heather Bergsma Brittany Bowe Mia Manganello Carlijn Schoutens^[a]	2:59.27

^a Skaters who did not participate in the final of the team pursuit event, but received medals as part of the team, having taken part in an earlier round.

Records

World & Olympic records

Eight Olympic records (OR) and five Sea level world bests (WB) were set during the competition.

Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 5000 metres	11 February	Pair 10	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:09.76	OR	^[18]
Women's 1000 metres	14 February	Pair 12	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:13.56	OR WB (sea level)	^[19]
Men's 10,000 metres	15 February	Pair 5	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	12:39.77	OR	^[20]
Women's 500 metres	18 February	Pair 14	Nao Kodaira	Japan	36.94	OR WB (sea level)	^[21]
Women's team pursuit	19 February	Quarterfinal 1	Antoinette de Jong Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	2:55.61	OR WB (sea level)	^[22]
Men's 500 metres	19 February	Pair 16	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	34.41	OR	^[23]
Men's team pursuit	21 February	Semifinal 2	Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	3:37.08	OR WB (sea level)	^[24]
Women's team pursuit	21 February	Final	Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	Japan	2:53.89	OR WB (sea level)	^[25]

Other records

The Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the women's 3000m event, making it a Dutch podium sweep.^[26]

Participating nations

A total of 184 athletes from 29 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).^[27] Colombia was scheduled to make its debut in the sport. A record number of nations qualified to compete in these games, with the previous high being 25 at the 1998 Winter Olympics.^[28]^[29]