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500 metres 34.32 Gao Tingyu China: 2022 Beijing: 12 February 2022 [1] 500 metres × 2 [A] 69.23 Casey FitzRandolph United States: 2002 Salt Lake City: 11 February 2002 [2] 1000 metres 1:07.18 Gerard van Velde Netherlands: 2002 Salt Lake City: 16 February 2002 [2] 1500 metres 1:43.21 Kjeld Nuis Netherlands: 2022 Beijing: 8 February 2022 [3] 5000 ...
The skaters only utilize the inner lane and the lap distance is accordingly less than the 400 meters of a regular lap skated with one inner curve and one outer curve. For comparison, the fastest known 400m lap was skated by Jenning de Boo on 25 January 2025 in Salt Lake City during a 1000-meter, with a lap time of 23.92 seconds and an average ...
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.
Long track speed skating, Thialf, 2008. The standard rink for long track is 400 meters long, [2] but tracks of 200, 250 and 333 1 ⁄ 3 meters are used occasionally. It is one of two Olympic forms of the sport and the one with the longer history.
The Oval was built for the 2002 Winter Olympics and it hosted the long-track speed skating events for the 2002 games, a role it is expected reprise for the 2034 Winter Olympics. Inside the facility the 400 meter skating track surrounds two international sized ice sheets, and is itself surrounded by a 442-meter running track. Due to its high ...
A 400-meter speed skating rink Skaters race on a two-lane oval rink similar in dimension to an outdoor athletics track . Indeed, an athletics track covered with ice can function as a speed skating track, such as on Bislett stadion in Oslo up to the 1980s.
2024 Paris Olympics: U.S. mixed 4x400-meter relay team sets world record. Jeff Eisenberg. August 2, 2024 at 2:26 PM ... Wilson is the world’s eighth-fastest man in the 400 meters this year and ...
Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...