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At the time, the world record for the 100 metres was 10.0 seconds, hand timed, set, and equaled over the years by Armin Hary and Harry Jerome in 1960, Horacio Esteves and Bob Hayes (United States) in 1964, Jim Hines (U.S.) and Enrique Figuerola in 1967, and by Paul Nash (South Africa) and Oliver Ford (U.S.) earlier in 1968.
Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, short-track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating.
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 first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included speed skating, but the first official short track speed skating events were not held until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. [1] Before 1992, short track speed skating events were held at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport. At those games, events for both men and ...
Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of 111.111 metres (364.54 ft).
The USOPTCs are all open to the general public for tourism, [5] [6] and they are the only facilities for Olympic training in the world to do so. Digital displays counting the days until the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics at the Colorado Springs OPTC during the Beijing Games.
The World Sprint Speed Skating Championships are annual speed skating championships. The championships are held over a two-day period, with the skaters racing one 500 m and one 1,000 m each day (so-called sprint combination).
The dimensions of a standard speed skating rink. The measurement of the track is made half a meter into the lane. [4] The total length of the track is the distance a competitor skates each lap, i.e. the length of two straights, one inner curve and one outer curve, in addition to the extra distance skated when changing lanes in the cross-over area, which on a standard track equals 7 centimeters.