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Speed Skating at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Gangneung Oval
Dates	10–24 February 2018
No. of events	14 (7 men, 7 women)
Competitors	184 from 29 nations
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Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Qualification
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Mass start	men	women
Team pursuit	men	women
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Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Gangneung Oval in Gangneung, South Korea between 10 and 24 February 2018.

Qualification

A total quota of 180 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (maximum 100 men and 80 women). Countries were assigned quotas based on the results of the entire 2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Cup in the autumn of 2017. Each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of three athletes per gender for all events apart from the 5000m, 10,000m and mass start events, for which they could enter a maximum of two athletes per event.

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all speed skating events. With the exception of the Team pursuit events, all rounds of each event were concluded within a single session.

All times are (UTC+9).

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	7	4	5	16
2	Japan	3	2	1	6
3	Norway	2	1	1	4
4	South Korea*	1	4	2	7
5	Canada	1	1	0	2
6	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	0	1	0	1
8	China	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Olympic Athletes from Russia	0	0	1	1
	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway	34.41 OR	Cha Min-kyu  South Korea	34.42	Gao Tingyu  China	34.65
1000 metres details	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:07.95	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway	1:07.99	Kim Tae-yun  South Korea	1:08.22
1500 metres details	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:44.01	Patrick Roest  Netherlands	1:44.86	Kim Min-seok  South Korea	1:44.93
5000 metres details	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:09.76 OR	Ted-Jan Bloemen  Canada	6:11.616	Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway	6:11.618
10,000 metres details	Ted-Jan Bloemen  Canada	12:39.77 OR	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	12:41.98	Nicola Tumolero  Italy	12:54.32
Mass start details	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	60	Bart Swings  Belgium	40	Koen Verweij  Netherlands	20
Team pursuit details	Norway Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen Sindre Henriksen	3:37.32	South Korea Lee Seung-hoon Chung Jae-won Kim Min-seok	3:38.52	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Patrick Roest Koen Verweij	3:38.40

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Nao Kodaira  Japan	36.94 OR	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	37.33	Karolína Erbanová  Czech Republic	37.34
1000 metres details	Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands	1:13.56 OR	Nao Kodaira  Japan	1:13.82	Miho Takagi  Japan	1:13.98
1500 metres details	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:54.35	Miho Takagi  Japan	1:54.55	Marrit Leenstra  Netherlands	1:55.26
3000 metres details	Carlijn Achtereekte  Netherlands	3:59.21	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	3:59.29	Antoinette de Jong  Netherlands	4:00.02
5000 metres details	Esmee Visser  Netherlands	6:50.23	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:51.85	Natalya Voronina  Olympic Athletes from Russia	6:53.98
Mass start details	Nana Takagi  Japan	60	Kim Bo-reum  South Korea	40	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	20
Team pursuit details	Japan Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nana Takagi Ayaka Kikuchi	2:53.89 OR	Netherlands Antoinette de Jong Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst Lotte van Beek	2:55.48	United States Heather Bergsma Brittany Bowe Mia Manganello Carlijn Schoutens	2:59.27

Skaters who did not participate in the final of the team pursuit event, but received medals as part of the team, having taken part in an earlier round.

Records

World & Olympic records

Eight Olympic records (OR) and five Sea level world bests (WB) were set during the competition.

Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 5000 metres	11 February	Pair 10	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:09.76	OR
Women's 1000 metres	14 February	Pair 12	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:13.56	OR WB (sea level)
Men's 10,000 metres	15 February	Pair 5	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	12:39.77	OR
Women's 500 metres	18 February	Pair 14	Nao Kodaira	Japan	36.94	OR WB (sea level)
Women's team pursuit	19 February	Quarterfinal 1	Antoinette de Jong Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	2:55.61	OR WB (sea level)
Men's 500 metres	19 February	Pair 16	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	34.41	OR
Men's team pursuit	21 February	Semifinal 2	Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	3:37.08	OR WB (sea level)
Women's team pursuit	21 February	Final	Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	Japan	2:53.89	OR WB (sea level)

Other records

The Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the women's 3000m event, making it a Dutch podium sweep.

Participating nations

A total of 184 athletes from 29 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). Colombia was scheduled to make its debut in the sport. A record number of nations qualified to compete in these games, with the previous high being 25 at the 1998 Winter Olympics.

•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belarus (4)
•  Belgium (3)
•  Canada (19)
•  China (13)
•  Chinese Taipei (3)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  Denmark (3)
•  Estonia (2)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (1)
•  Germany (9)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Italy (9)
•  Japan (16)
•  Kazakhstan (6)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Netherlands (20)
•  New Zealand (3)
•  Norway (9)
•  Olympic Athletes from Russia (4)
•  Poland (14)
•  Romania (1)
•  South Korea (16)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  United States (13)

References

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6. Men's 1500 metres results
7. Men's 5000 metres results
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External links

• Official Results Book – Speed Skating

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