1998 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

World Allround Speed Skating Championships
VenueThialf, Heerenveen
Dates13–15 March
Competitors37 (M), 28 (W) from 22 nations
Medalist men
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ids Postma  NED
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Rintje Ritsma  NED
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roberto Sighel  ITA
Medalist women
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  GER
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Claudia Pechstein  GER
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Anni Friesinger  GER

The 1998 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 13–15 March 1998 in the Thialf stadium in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann and Ids Postma were the world title holders from the previous year and successfully defended their titles. It was Niemann-Stirnemann's seventh all-round world title.[1][2][3]

Allround results

Men

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 5000 m 1500 m 10000 m
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ids Postma  Netherlands 153.367 WR 36.48 (1) 6:33.09 (1) 1:48.85 (1) 13:45.91 (4)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands 154.091 37.17 (4) 6:34.68 (3) 1:48.86 (2) 13:43.35 (2)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roberto Sighel  Italy 155.830 37.54 (6) 6:39.68 (6) 1:51.19 (3) 13:45.18 (3)
4 Bart Veldkamp  Belgium 156.129 39.02 (27) 6:34.60 (2) 1:51.57 (5) 13:29.19 (1)
5 K. C. Boutiette  United States 156.587 36.90 (2) 6:40.01 (7) 1:52.29 (10) 14:05.13 (9)
6 Jelmer Beulenkamp  Netherlands 157.165 37.95 (14) 6:39.15 (5) 1:51.46 (4) 14:02.94 (8)
7 Keiji Shirahata  Japan 157.478 37.78 (11) 6:48.16 (12) 1:52.37 (11) 13:48.53 (5)
8 Frank Dittrich  Germany 158.217 38.65 (24) 6:38.90 (4) 1:54.20 (21) 13:52.23 (6)
9 Uwe Tonat  Germany 158.363 37.76 (10) 6:47.86 (11) 1:52.65 (13) 14:05.35 (10)
10 Steven Elm  Canada 158.442 38.10 (16) 6:49.63 (17) 1:52.13 (7) 14:00.06 (7)
11 Dave Tamburrino  United States 159.384 37.74 (9) 6:49.36 (16) 1:53.69 (18) 14:16.25 (11)
12 Sergej Tsibenko  Kazakhstan 159.938 37.49 (5) 6:52.90 (20) 1:52.26 (8) 14:34.76 (12)
NC13 Eskil Ervik  Norway 116.613 38.54 (20) 6:41.50 (9) 1:53.77 (19)
NC14 Mamoru Ishioka  Japan 116.737 37.89 (13) 6:48.77 (13) 1:53.91 (20)
NC15 Michael Spielmann  Germany 116.808 37.56 (7) 6:58.25 (26) 1:52.27 (9)
NC16 Takahiro Nozaki  Japan 116.899 38.33 (18) 6:48.86 (14) 1:53.05 (16)
NC17 Kevin Marshall  Canada 117.154 37.64 (8) 6:58.91 (27) 1:52.87 (15)
NC18 Maurizio De Monte  Italy 117.274 38.07 (15) 6:56.21 (24) 1:52.75 (14)
NC19 Cédric Kuentz  France 117.358 37.85 (12) 6:59.78 (29) 1:52.59 (12)
NC20 Marnix ten Kortenaar  Austria 117.390 38.57 (22) 6:51.10 (19) 1:53.13 (17)
NC21 Paweł Zygmunt  Poland 117.411 38.49 (19) 6:45.61 (10) 1:55.08 (23)
NC22 Jason Parker  Canada 117.457 37.14 (3) 7:09.74 (32) 1:52.03 (6)
NC23 Jondon Trevena  United States 118.081 38.22 (17) 6:56.05 (23) 1:54.77 (22)
NC24 Kjell Storelid  Norway 118.493 39.77 (31) 6:40.37 (8) 1:56.06 (28)
NC25 Sebastian Falk  Sweden 118.600 38.55 (21) 6:56.90 (25) 1:55.08 (23)
NC26 Anatoli Krasjeninin  Russia 118.886 39.31 (28) 6:49.10 (15) 1:56.00 (27)
NC27 Dmitri Krasovski  Russia 119.097 38.58 (23) 6:59.51 (28) 1:55.70 (25)
NC28 Desző Horváth  Romania 119.411 39.32 (29) 6:54.65 (22) 1:55.88 (26)
NC29 Samuli Ollanketo  Finland 120.902 39.57 (30) 7:05.26 (30) 1:56.42 (29)
NC30 Oleg Psevkin  Belarus 121.611 38.99 (26) 7:14.18 (34) 1:57.61 (31)
NC31 Sergij Priz  Ukraine 121.895 39.77 (31) 7:11.29 (33) 1:56.99 (30)
NC32 Fausto Marreiros  Portugal 123.549 40.31 (34) 7:08.99 (31) 2:01.02 (33)
NC33 Martin Holoubek  Czech Republic 126.010 41.11 (36) 7:20.20 (35) 2:02.64 (34)
NC34 Martin Feigenwinter  Switzerland 141.180 1:00.63 (37f) 6:49.74 (18) 1:58.73 (32)
NF3 Stefan Lechner  Austria 81.774 40.32 (35) 6:54.54 (21) - (NF)
NS3 Andrew Nicholson  New Zealand 83.021 38.92 (25) 7:21.01 (36) - (NS)
NS2 Vadim Sayutin  Russia 39.800 39.80 (33) - (NS)

Women

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany 163.020 WR 40.57 (9) 1:58.69 (1) 4:05.08 (1) WR 7:00.41 (1)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Claudia Pechstein  Germany 163.669 40.12 (4) 1:59.26 (2) 4:07.36 (2) 7:05.70 (2)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Anni Friesinger  Germany 166.014 40.40 (6) 2:01.02 (8) 4:11.57 (3) 7:13.46 (6)
4 Tonny de Jong  Netherlands 166.410 40.87 (11) 2:02.28 (12) 4:12.88 (4) 7:06.34 (3)
5 Jennifer Rodriguez  United States 167.106 40.51 (8) 2:00.63 (6) 4:15.33 (7) 7:18.31 (7)
6 Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan 167.375 41.20 (15) 2:01.72 (9) 4:14.27 (5) 7:12.24 (4)
7 Annamarie Thomas  Netherlands 167.571 40.08 (3) 2:00.12 (5) 4:16.67 (8) 7:26.73 (9)
8 Emese Hunyady  Austria 167.922 40.25 (5) 1:59.93 (4) 4:17.09 (9) 7:28.48 (10)
9 Tatyana Trapeznikova  Russia 168.046 40.45 (7) 2:02.00 (10) 4:17.47 (10) 7:20.19 (8)
10 Barbara de Loor  Netherlands 168.185 41.67 (19) 2:02.13 (11) 4:15.26 (6) 7:12.62 (5)
11 Becky Sundstrom  United States 168.801 39.97 (2) 2:00.68 (7) 4:19.35 (14) 7:33.80 (11)
12 Chris Witty  United States 168.851 39.45 (1) 1:59.46 (3) 4:22.57 (18) 7:38.20 (12)
NC13 Anette Tønsberg  Norway 125.072 40.94 (13) 2:03.17 (13) 4:18.46 (12)
NC14 Cindy Overland  Canada 125.789 41.62 (18) 2:03.71 (14) 4:17.60 (11)
NC15 Mie Uehara  Japan 126.033 41.35 (16) 2:03.99 (16) 4:20.12 (15)
NC16 Noriko Munekata  Japan 126.252 41.84 (20) 2:03.80 (15) 4:18.88 (13)
NC17 Chiharu Nozaki  Japan 126.530 40.88 (12) 2:04.44 (17) 4:25.02 (19)
NC18 Varvara Barysheva  Russia 126.896 40.59 (10) 2:05.27 (21) 4:27.30 (20)
NC19 Mihaela Dascălu  Romania 127.178 41.88 (21) 2:04.98 (19) 4:21.83 (17)
NC20 Anna Saveljeva  Russia 127.336 41.13 (14) 2:04.50 (18) 4:28.24 (22)
NC21 Isabelle Doucet  Canada 127.890 41.56 (17) 2:05.19 (20) 4:27.60 (21)
NC22 Elena Belci-Dal Farra  Italy 128.551 42.92 (23) 2:06.75 (23) 4:20.29 (16)
NC23 Lise Marie Braathen  Norway 129.968 43.05 (24) 2:06.63 (22) 4:28.25 (23)
NC24 Svetlana Konstantinova  Ukraine 131.220 42.71 (22) 2:09.66 (25) 4:31.74 (25)
NC25 Outi Aunula-Ylä-Sulkava  Finland 131.833 43.45 (25) 2:09.37 (24) 4:31.56 (24)
NC26 Dana Ionescu  Romania 133.229 43.83 (27) 2:09.79 (26) 4:36.82 (26)
NC27 Jana Rejhonová  Czech Republic 138.740 47.26 (28) 2:14.97 (27) 4:38.94 (27)
DQ2 Irina Safrankova  Belarus 90.191 43.55 (26) - (DQ) 4:39.85 (28)

bold signifies championship record.

References

  1. ^ "Uitslag WK Allround mannen 1998". SchaatsStatistieken.nl.
  2. ^ "Uitslag WK Allround vrouwen 1998". SchaatsStatistieken.nl.
  3. ^ "Postma Repeats World Title". The New York Times. 16 March 1998.