1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

World Allround Speed Skating Championships
VenueM-Wave, Nagano
Dates14–16 February
Competitors36 (M), 30 (W) from 23 nations
Medalist men
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ids Postma  NED
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Keiji Shirahata  JPN
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Frank Dittrich  GER
Medalist women
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  GER
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Claudia Pechstein  GER
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tonny de Jong  NED

The 1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 14–16 February 1997 in the M-Wave stadium in Nagano, Japan.

Title defenders were the 1996 world champions Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Rintje Ritsma from the Netherlands.

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Ids Postma from the Netherlands became world champions.

Allround results

Men

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 5000 m 1500 m 10000 m
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ids Postma  Netherlands 157.906 37.36 (2) 6:49.09 (8) 1:51.78 (1) 14:07.54 (4)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Keiji Shirahata  Japan 158.466 37.59 (3) 6:47.46 (3) 1:53.20 (6) 14:07.95 (5)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Frank Dittrich  Germany 158.697 38.87 (19) 6:43.74 (2) 1:54.10 (9) 13:48.40 (2)
4 K. C. Boutiette  United States 158.739 37.93 (7) 6:48.62 (5) 1:52.53 (2) 14:08.75 (6)
5 Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands 159.090 37.99 (9) 6:48.96 (7) 1:53.12 (5) 14:09.97 (7)
6 Bart Veldkamp  Belgium 159.209 39.61 (26) 6:43.26 (1) 1:54.57 (11) 13:41.66 (1)
7 Hiroyuki Noake  Japan 160.461 37.70 (4) 6:51.32 (11) 1:53.11 (4) 14:38.53 (11)
8 Toru Aoyanagi  Japan 160.900 38.16 (12) 6:56.23 (13) 1:54.17 (10) 14:21.22 (8)
9 Neal Marshall  Canada 161.067 37.96 (8) 6:59.02 (17) 1:53.68 (7) 14:26.24 (9)
10 Dave Tamburrino  United States 161.454 38.37 (15) 6:53.35 (12) 1:55.01 (12) 14:28.27 (10)
11 Lasse Sætre  Norway 161.503 40.10 (30) 6:47.97 (4) 1:56.65 (22) 13:54.46 (3)
12 Jason Parker  Canada 163.034 38.17 (13) 7:05.64 (25) 1:52.96 (3) 14:52.95 (12)
NC13 Kevin Marshall  Canada 118.418 38.01 (10) 7:00.15 (19) 1:55.18 (14)
NC14 Falko Zandstra  Netherlands 118.621 38.06 (11) 7:01.35 (22) 1:55.28 (15)
NC15 Uwe Tonat  Germany 118.627 39.21 (14) 6:50.74 (10) 1:55.03 (13)
NC16 Anatoli Krasheninin  Russia 119.208 38.94 (21) 6:56.62 (15) 1:55.82 (18)
NC17 Marnix ten Kortenaar  Austria 119.593 39.06 (22) 6:58.87 (16) 1:55.94 (19)
NC18 Ermanno Ioriatti  Italy 120.043 37.74 (5) 7:12.20 (29) 1:57.25 (23)
NC19 Dmitry Shepel  Russia 120.063 38.64 (17) 7:09.33 (27) 1:55.47 (16)
NC20 Tim Hoffmann  United States 120.140 38.25 (14) 7:13.20 (30) 1:55.71 (17)
NC21 Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea 120.181 37.14 (1) 7:23.58 (34) 1:56.05 (20)
NC22 Roberto Sighel  Italy 120.274 38.84 (18) 7:02.68 (23) 1:57.50 (25)
NC23 Radik Bikchentayev  Kazakhstan 120.295 39.21 (24) 7:03.62 (24) 1:56.17 (21)
NC24 Jonas Schön  Sweden 120.768 39.67 (27) 7:00.15 (19) 1:57.25 (23)
NC25 Christian Breuer  Germany 121.214 39.18 (23) 7:07.38 (26) 1:57.89 (26)
NC26 Jaromir Radke  Poland 121.241 40.31 (32) 6:56.25 (14) 1:57.92 (27)
NC27 Cédric Kuentz  France 121.287 39.68 (28) 7:01.14 (21) 1:58.48 (28)
NC28 Davide Carta  Italy 121.399 37.86 (6) 7:19.99 (33) 1:58.62 (29)
NC29 Vitali Novichenko  Belarus 121.642 38.88 (20) 7:11.32 (28) 1:58.89 (30)
NC30 Kjell Storelid  Norway 121.701 40.90 (34) 6:49.45 (9) 1:59.57 (32)
NC31 Martin Feigenwinter  Switzerland 123.335 41.25 (35) 6:59.95 (18) 2:00.27 (34)
NC32 Boris Uvarov  Ukraine 123.617 40.21 (31) 7:14.84 (31) 1:59.77 (33)
NC33 Andrew Nicholson  New Zealand 124.450 39.81 (29) 7:19.57 (32) 2:02.05 (35)
NC34 Cédric Michaud  France 127.012 40.87 (33) 7:28.32 (35) 2:03.93 (36)
NC35 Paweł Zygmunt  Poland 127.853 38.50 (16) 8:15.50 (36f) 1:59.41 (31)
NC36 Vadim Sayutin  Russia 78.823 - (DQ) 6:48.63 (6) 1:53.88 (8)

bold signifies championship record.

Women

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gunda Niemann-Kleemann  Germany 165.708 WR 40.79 (2) 2:00.51 (1) 4:10.40 (1) 7:10.15 (1)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Claudia Pechstein  Germany 168.179 41.31 (9) 2:02.52 (3) 4:13.95 (2) 7:17.04 (3)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tonny de Jong  Netherlands 168.206 41.09 (6) 2:03.08 (5) 4:15.91 (3) 7:14.39 (2)
4 Anni Friesinger  Germany 168.751 41.52 (13) 2:02.00 (2) 4:16.24 (4) 7:18.59 (4)
5 Annamarie Thomas  Netherlands 169.605 40.53 (1) 2:02.79 (4) 4:18.45 (6) 7:30.70 (9)
6 Svetlana Bazhanova  Russia 169.695 41.61 (14) 2:03.47 (6) 4:17.77 (5) 7:19.68 (6)
7 Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan 170.125 41.93 (17) 2:03.48 (7) 4:18.68 (8) 7:19.22 (5)
8 Mie Uehara  Japan 170.733 41.28 (8) 2:03.57 (8) 4:21.47 (11) 7:26.85 (7)
9 Barbara de Loor  Netherlands 171.764 41.99 (18) 2:05.24 (12) 4:18.51 (7) 7:29.43 (8)
10 Chiharu Nozaki  Japan 172.490 41.08 (5) 2:04.58 (9) 4:25.96 (18) 7:35.58 (10)
11 Becky Sundstrom  United States 173.344 40.89 (3) 2:05.66 (13) 4:26.51 (19) 7:41.50 (11)
12 Varvara Barysheva  Russia 174.087 41.75 (15) 2:05.21 (11) 4:23.51 (13) 7:46.83 (12)
NC13 Emese Hunyady  Austria 127.623 41.24 (7) 2:06.33 (16) 4:25.64 (16)
NC14 Anette Tønsberg  Norway 127.823 42.22 (19) 2:06.09 (14) 4:21.44 (10)
NC15 Mihaela Dascălu  Romania 127.999 41.38 (10) 2:07.72 (18) 4:24.28 (15)
NC16 Kirstin Holum  United States 128.009 43.05 (24) 2:05.11 (10) 4:19.54 (9)
NC17 Tatyana Trapeznikova  Russia 128.104 42.22 (19) 2:06.14 (15) 4:23.03 (12)
NC18 Moira D'Andrea  United States 128.169 41.07 (4) 2:06.50 (17) 4:29.60 (21)
NC19 Noriko Munekata  Japan 129.471 42.45 (22) 2:09.10 (20) 4:23.93 (14)
NC20 Cindy Overland  Canada 129.838 42.47 (23) 2:08.11 (19) 4:27.99 (20)
NC21 You Yanchun  China 130.299 41.42 (11) 2:09.85 (21) 4:33.58 (22)
NC22 Cerasela Hordobețiu  Romania 131.369 42.40 (21) 2:10.12 (23) 4:33.58 (22)
NC23 Elena Belci-Dal Farra  Italy 131.728 43.98 (30) 2:10.35 (24) 4:25.79 (17)
NC24 Krisztina Egyed  Hungary 132.270 41.89 (16) 2:10.11 (22) 4:42.06 (28)
NC25 Christina Schön  Sweden 132.521 43.24 (26) 2:10.91 (25) 4:33.87 (24)
NC26 Svetlana Konstantinova  Ukraine 132.863 43.43 (28) 2:11.20 (27) 4:34.20 (26)
NC27 Chiara Simionato  Italy 132.884 43.24 (26) 2:11.92 (29) 4:34.03 (25)
NC28 Ingrid Liepa  Canada 133.482 43.21 (25) 2:11.15 (26) 4:39.34 (27)
NC29 Kang Mi-yeong  South Korea 133.640 41.45 (12) 2:11.91 (28) 4:49.32 (30)
NC30 Ilonda Lūse  Latvia 136.215 43.78 (29) 2:14.16 (30) 4:46.29 (29)

bold signifies championship record.

References