Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, was held from 9 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at L'anneau de vitesse.[1][2]

Speed skating at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'anneau de vitesse
Dates	9–20 February
No. of events	10
Competitors	154 from 23 nations

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	3	3	11
2	Norway (NOR)	2	2	1	5
3	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
4	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	4
5	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
6	Japan (JPN)	0	1	3	4
7	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
8	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		10	10	10	30

Germany, in its first Olympics since reunification, topped the medal table with five gold medals, and eleven total medals. All the medals were won by athletes from the former East Germany. Germany's Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann led the individual medal table with two golds and a silver, and Norway's Johan Olav Koss was the most successful male skater, with one gold and one silver.

South Korea's Kim Yoon-Man and China's Ye Qiaobo became the first ever medalists for their countries at the Winter Olympics. Bonnie Blair collected two gold medals to become the second most successful female speed skater of the games.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Uwe-Jens Mey  Germany	37.14	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa  Japan	37.18	Junichi Inoue  Japan	37.26
1000 metres	Olaf Zinke  Germany	1:14.85	Kim Yoon-man  South Korea	1:14.86	Yukinori Miyabe  Japan	1:14.92
1500 metres	Johann Olav Koss  Norway	1:54.81	Ådne Søndrål  Norway	1:54.85	Leo Visser  Netherlands	1:54.90
5000 metres	Geir Karlstad  Norway	6:59.97	Falko Zandstra  Netherlands	7:02.28	Leo Visser  Netherlands	7:04.96
10,000 metres	Bart Veldkamp  Netherlands	14:12.12	Johann Olav Koss  Norway	14:14.58	Geir Karlstad  Norway	14:18.13

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Bonnie Blair  United States	40.33	Ye Qiaobo  China	40.51	Christa Luding  Germany	40.57
1000 metres	Bonnie Blair  United States	1:21.90	Ye Qiaobo  China	1:21.92	Monique Garbrecht  Germany	1:22.10
1500 metres	Jacqueline Börner  Germany	2:05.87	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	2:05.92	Seiko Hashimoto  Japan	2:06.88
3000 metres	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	4:19.90	Heike Warnicke  Germany	4:22.88	Emese Hunyady  Austria	4:24.64
5000 metres	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	7:31.57	Heike Warnicke  Germany	7:37.59	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	7:39.80

Records

There were no Olympic or World records set at the 1992 Games, as the outdoor rink in Albertville was not conducive to fast times.[3][4]

Participating NOCs

Twenty-three nations competed in the speed skating events at Albertville. The Unified Team made its only Olympic appearance.

Australia (2)  Austria (3)  Canada (9)  China (10)  Unified Team (19)  Finland (2)  France (1)  Great Britain (1)

Germany (14)  Hungary (2)  Italy (4)  Japan (15)  South Korea (5)  Mongolia (2)  Netherlands (14)  Norway (8)

Poland (4)  North Korea (5)  Romania (3)  Sweden (8)  Czechoslovakia (2)  United States (19)  Yugoslavia (2)

References

1. "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
2. "Speed Skating at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
4. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.