1972 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

1972 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men
VenueBislett stadion, Oslo, Norway
Dates19–20 February
Competitors31 skaters from 13 countries
Medalist men
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ard Schenk  NED
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Roar Grønvold  NOR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jan Bols  NED

The World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 19 and 20 February 1972 in Oslo at the Bislett stadion ice rink.

The title holder and winner was Ard Schenk who prolonged his title to become the third speed skater to win the world allround title three times in a row, equaling the performances of Oscar Mathisen and Hjalmar Andersen.

Classification

Rank Skater Country Points
Samalog		 500m 5000m 1500m 10,000m
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ard Schenk  Netherlands 171.549 40.14 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7:22.84 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2:03.06 1st place, gold medalist(s) 15:22.09 1st place, gold medalist(s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Roar Grønvold  Norway 174.306 40.14 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7:30.76 (5) 2:04.40 (2) 15:52.45 (7)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jan Bols  Netherlands 174.493 41.01 (9) 7:29.97 (2) 2:06.48 (7) 15:26.52 (2)
4 Sten Stensen  Norway 175.028 41.37 (13) 7:30.39 (4) 2:05.95 (4) 15:32.72(3)
5 Eddy Verheijen  Netherlands 175.446 41.64 (14) 7:30.32 (3) 2:05.78 (3) 15:36.94 (14)
6 Kees Verkerk  Netherlands 177.175 42.25 (20) 7:31.44 (6) 2:07.74 (9) 15:44.01 (5)
7 Göran Claeson  Sweden 177.339 41.04 (10) 7:40.17 (10) 2:07.38 (8) 15:56.43 (10)
8 Valery Lavrushkin  Soviet Union 177.506 40.50 (4) 7:36.24 (8) 2:09.18 15) 16:06.43 (13)
9 Kimmo Koskinen  Finland 177.802 40.70 (7) 7:45.60 (15) 2:06.23 (5) 16:09.29 (14)
10 Bjørn Tveter  Norway 177.882 40.72 (8) 7:44.11 (14) 2:06.30 (6) 16:13.02 (15)
11 Vladimir Ivanov  Soviet Union 178.233 41.81 (15) 7:39.50 (9) 2:08.22 (10) 15:54.65 (9)
12 Willy Olsen  Norway 178.962 42.06 (17) 7:35.41 (7) 2:09.13 (14) 16:06.36 (12)
13 Per Willy Guttormsen  Norway 179.398 42.41 (22) 7:43.12 (12) 2:09.58 (17) 15:49.65 (6)
14 Jappie van Dijk  Netherlands 179.477 42.64 (23) 7:42.04 (11) 2:09.01 (12) 15:52.59 (8)
15 Dan Carroll  United States 179.509 40.66 (6) 7:46.80 (16) 2:09.34 (16) 16:21.11 (16)
16 Aleksandr Tsjekoelajev  Soviet Union 179.699 42.12 (19) 7:43.67 (13) 2:09.60 (18) 16:00.24 (11)
NC17 Johnny Höglin  Sweden 130.643 40.51 (5) 7:51.16 (17) 2:09.05 (13) –
NC18 Gary Jonland  United States 131.870 41.09 (11) 7:58.17 (19) 2:08.89 (11) –
NC19 Göran Johansson  Sweden 133.079 41.11 (12) 8:02.86 (21) 2:11.05 (19) –
NC20 Kiyomi Ito  Japan 134.374 42.73 (24) 7:55.81 (18) 2:12.19 (20) –
NC21 David Hampton  United Kingdom 134.891 41.83 (16) 8:04.61 (22) 2:13.80 (23) –
NC22 Jouko Salakka  Finland 135.442 42.11 (18) 8:07.72 (23) 2:13.68 (21) –
NC23 Colin Coates  Australia 136.319 42.97 (25) 8:07.86 (24) 2:13.69 (23) –
NC24 Franz Krienbühl  Switzerland 137.156 44.68 (31) 7:58.66 (20) 2:13.83 (24) –
NC25 Örjan Sandler  Sweden 137.648 44.11 (30) 8:08.25 (25) 2:14.14 (25) –
NC26 Zhao Weichang  China 138.051 42.30 (21) 8:23.21 (29) 2:16.29 (29) –
NC27 Richard Tourne  France 138.193 43.00 (26) 8:20.03 (28) 2:15.57 (28) –
NC28 Helmut Kraus  West Germany 138.753 43.22 (28) 8:26.33 (30) 2:14.70 (26) –
NC29 John Blewitt  United Kingdom 139.404 44.76 (32) 8:09.57 (26) 2:17.06 (30) –
NC30 Anton Eicher  West Germany 139.751 43.54 (29) 8:31.14 (31) 2:15.29 (27) –
NC31 Kuangchun Chin  China 141.066 44.85 (33) 8:15.16 (27) 2:20.10 (31) –
NC32 Jim Lynch  Australia 148.133 43.21 (27) 9:48.33 (32) 2:24.27 (32) –
NC Takayuki Hida  Japan 40.180 44.85 (34) DNS – – 
:  DNS = Did not start

Source:[1][2][3]

Attribution

In Dutch

References

  1. ^ "world allround championships 1972 - men". SpeedSkatingNews.
  2. ^ "Uitslag WK Allround 1972 mannen - SchaatsStatistieken.nl". www.schaatsstatistieken.nl.
  3. ^ "Results of the 1972 World Championship Allround Meen - SpeedSkatingStats.com". www.speedskatingstats.com.