Adelskalender (skating)

The Adelskalender in skating is a ranking for long track speed skating based on skaters' all-time personal records for certain distances. As in samalog competitions, the skater's time (measured in seconds) for each distance is divided in 500 metre averages, truncated (not rounded) to 3 decimal places, and the results are then added up – the lower the sum, the better. The samalog system was introduced in 1928 in Norway, replacing ranking points in the traditional 4 distance championships, and can also be used to reconstruct scores based on personal records that were set before the samalog system was invented.

The classical Adelskalender consists of the Allround Championships distances:

  • Men: 500 m - 1500 m - 5000 m - 10,000 m
  • Women: 500 m - 1500 m - 3000 m - 5000 m

Similar rankings in many other combinations are maintained by enthusiasts and available on the Internet.

Calculation

As an example, the points for the current leader in the men's Adelskalendern ranking Patrick Roest are calculated as follows:

Distance Time Seconds Divided by Points
500m35.7435.74135.74
1500m1:42.56102.56334.187
5000m6:03.70363.701036.370
10000m12:42.97767.892038.148
Total144.444

Caveats

The Adelskalender score is calculated over a skater's entire career and not for a single tournament. Theoretically, this would make it possible for a skater to lead the Adelskalender without ever having set a 4 distance championships samalog record, or even having won - or participated in - such a tournament.

Speed skating records have improved dramatically over the years due to a combination of larger participation, introduction of professionalism, improvements in training and selection, and, especially, technical developments, distorting the comparative accomplishments of skaters over time.[1] For comparison, the ranking leader on 1 January 1900 (Jaap Eden) had a score of 202.226,[2] "averaging" 35.6 km/h. In 1925 Oscar Mathisen led with 192.860[3] (37.3 km/h), in 1950 Åke Seyffarth led with 188.678[4] (38.2 km/h), in 1975 Ard Schenk led with 166.241[5] (43.3 km/h), and in 2000 Rintje Ritsma led with 150.720[6] (47.8 km/h).

Among major technical developments were the introduction of artificial (refrigerated) 400 m ovals, the first opening in Gothenburg in 1958, aerodynamics suits in 1976 (by Franz Krienbühl), indoor, climate-controlled ovals in 1986, and the clap skate in 1996.[1] Also, over time, more high altitude skating rinks have been built; the lower air pressure at higher altitude greatly benefits the skater's speed -the rule of thumb is 0.1 points at each distance for every 100 m of increased altitude- and world records generally are set at high altitude.[7]

Even the ranking points of concurrent skaters can be strongly affected by the opportunity skaters have to train and compete on fast rinks. For example, before the 1960s, skaters were dependent on long periods of frost, less common at more southerly latitudes. The effect of access to high altitude rinks was especially notable from 1973 to 1986, when most world records were set at Medeo in Kazakhstan, a rink at 1,691 m that also enjoyed an unusual all-around tailwind, but was rarely accessible to non-Soviet skaters.[8] In 1977–78, the Adelskalender top 10[5] consisted almost entirely of times set at Medeo, while several skaters in the top 10 never reached the podium at international meets. Currently, the two fastest speed skating rinks are, by a long way, the high altitude covered ovals at Calgary and Salt Lake City, both in North America. Indeed, after the 2014–15 season, 65 of the last 67 new world distance records and the 264 best times ever on the men's 1000 m were recorded at one of these two venues.[9][10]

Current Adelskalenders

Men

This table is correct as of 15 February 2020.[11][12] Times in bold are the current world records at that distance. For comparison: the world record big combination (similar to the men's Adelskalender samalog, only for times in one weekend) is 145.561, by Patrick Roest.

Pos Name Country 500 m 1500 m 5000 m 10000 m Samalog
1Patrick Roest Netherlands35.741:42.566:03.7012:42.97144.444
2Shani Davis United States34.781:41.046:10.4913:05.94144.806
3Sven Kramer Netherlands36.171:43.546:03.3212:38.89144.959
4Chad Hedrick United States35.521:42.146:09.6812:55.11145.289
5Sverre Lunde Pedersen Norway35.851:42.396:07.1612:56.91145.541
6Håvard Bøkko Norway35.751:42.676:09.9412:53.89145.661
7Ted-Jan Bloemen Canada36.871:44.916:01.8612:36.30145.841
8Denis Yuskov Russia35.421.41.026.11.7913.12.49145.896
9Koen Verweij Netherlands35.641:41.636:09.5113:08.97145.915
10Ivan Skobrev Russia35.901:42.946:08.7712:58.36146.008

Women

This table is correct as of 15 February 2020.[13][14] Times in bold are the current world records at that distance. For comparison: the world record small combination (similar to the women's Adelskalender samalog, only for times in one weekend) is 154.580, by Cindy Klassen.

Pos Name Country 500 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m Samalog
1Cindy Klassen Canada37.511:51.793:53.346:48.97154.560
2Miho Takagi Japan37.221:49.833:57.097:02.72155.617
3Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic39.231:53.443:52.026:41.18155.831
4Ireen Wüst Netherlands38.441:50.703:58.016:54.28156.436
5Ivanie Blondin Canada38.831:51.763:57.566:48.98156.568
6Anni Friesinger-Postma  Germany37.771:53.093:58.526:58.39157.058
7Natalia Voronina Russia39.661:55.583:54.066:39.02157.098
8Claudia Pechstein Germany38.991:54.313:57.356:46.91157.342
9Kristina Groves Canada38.751:53.183:58.016:54.55157.616
10Carlijn Achtereekte  Netherlands39.251:53.933:54.926:49.81157.360
gollark: Macron idea: implement a type which works differently depending on how it's iterated, for purposes.
gollark: Macron idea: all functions have exactly two arguments.
gollark: Macron idea: all types contain implicit `None<T>` for all types they do not contain in all fields they don't have.
gollark: Macron idea: all product types are implicitly iterable.
gollark: !wiki Macron

References
  1. Gerard H. Kuper & Elmer Sterken, Endurance in speed skating: The development of world records, European Journal of Operational Research 148 (2) 293-301 (published 16 July 2003).
  2. Stenlund, Evert. "Evolution of Adelskalendern 1 July 1899 - 1 July 1909".
  3. Stenlund, Evert. "Evolution of Adelskalendern 1 July 1919 - 1 July 1929".
  4. Stenlund, Evert. "Evolution of Adelskalendern 1 July 1949 - 1 July 1959".
  5. Stenlund, Evert. "Evolution of Adelskalendern 1 July 1969 - 1 July 1979".
  6. Stenlund, Evert. "Evolution of Adelskalendern 1 July 1999 - 1 July 2004".
  7. Van Ingen Schenau, De Boer & De Groot, Biomechanics of speed skating, in Biomechanics of Sport, Christopher L. Vaughan editor, Informa Health Care, 1989, ISBN 0-8493-6820-0, p. 141.
  8. T. B. Hansen, Another Revolution Archived December 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, from a series of articles on the history of speed skating records, in The Racing Blade.
  9. "Current world records Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  10. Evert Stenlund, All Time best performances
  11. Evert Stenlund, Current rankings in the men's Adelskalender
  12. Adelskalender Big combination Men at SpeedSkatingStats.com
  13. Evert Stenlund, Current rankings in the women's Adelskalender
  14. Adelskalender Small combination Women at SpeedSkatingStats.com
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.