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Speed skating is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1924. [1] Events held at the first Winter Olympics included the men's 500-metre, 1500-metre, 5000-metre, and 10,000-metre races.
United States: 69.23 Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan: 69.26 Kip Carpenter United States: 69.47 1000 metres details: Gerard van Velde Netherlands: 1:07.18 WR: Jan Bos Netherlands: 1:07.53 Joey Cheek United States: 1:07.61 1500 metres details: Derek Parra United States: 1:43.95 WR: Jochem Uytdehaage Netherlands: 1:44.57 Ådne Søndrål Norway: 1:45.26 ...
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in speed skating (20 P) Pages in category "Olympic speed skaters for the United States" The following 138 pages are in this category, out of 138 total.
Maama Biney is the first black woman to make the U.S. Olympics speed skating team
The governing body for speed skating, the International Skating Union (ISU), was included in the list of recognized federations when the International Olympic Committee was founded, but was first discussed seriously for the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. No speed skating events were contested, although figure skating – also governed by the ...
United States: 38.03 (OR) Yevgeny Kulikov Soviet Union: 38.37 Lieuwe de Boer Netherlands: 38.48 1000 metres details: Eric Heiden United States: 1:15.18 (OR) Gaétan Boucher Canada: 1:16.68 Vladimir Lobanov Soviet Union Frode Rønning Norway: 1:16.91 1500 metres details: Eric Heiden United States: 1:55.44 (OR) Kay Stenshjemmet Norway: 1:56.81 ...
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.
This was only the second Games in which the United States did not win a speed skating medal, and as of 2018, the only time since 1960 the Netherlands did not win a medal in the sport. Japan's Yoshihiro Kitazawa won his country's first Olympic medal in speed skating.