2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships

World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
Vikingskipet (Hamar)
VenueVikingskipet
Dates20–21 January 2007
Medalist men
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lee Kyou-hyuk  KOR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pekka Koskela  FIN
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Shani Davis  USA
Medalist women
1st place, gold medalist(s) Anni Friesinger  GER
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ireen Wüst  NED
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Cindy Klassen  CAN

The 2007 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships were held in Vikingskipet, Hamar, on 20–21 January 2007. They were the 36th World Championships, and it was the third time the Championships were held in Hamar. Several of the world's top skaters, including the top two from the 2006 men's and women's standings, did not take part in the competition, while Lee Kang-seok (men), Lee Sang-hwa and Wang Beixing (women), all among the top three in the 500 meter World Cup rankings, did not take part as they are competing in other colliding tournaments.

Three-time world allround champion Anni Friesinger entered for the second time, after winning silver in 2004, and won gold by more than one samalog point, the greatest margin of victory since Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt's last title in 2003. She thus became the fourth woman to become world champion in both allround and sprint.

Conversely, the men's competition was the closest since Bae Ki-tae won South Korea's first title, in 1990. The men's title went to a Korean for the third time in the tournament's history. Finland's Pekka Koskela led the tournament until two laps remained of the 1000 metres, but despite skating a better last lap than Lee he finished 0.065 points behind the Korean.

Men championships

Results

Rank Name Nation 500 m (1) 1000 m (1) 500 m (2) 1000 m (2) Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lee Kyou-hyuk  KOR 35.11 ( 4) 1:08.56 ( 2) 35.04 ( 3) 1:08.69 ( 2) 138.775
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pekka Koskela  FIN 34.80 ( 1) 1:09.03 ( 7) 34.94 ( 1) 1:09.17 ( 7) 138.840
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Shani Davis  USA 35.62 (12) 1:08.41 ( 1) 35.42 ( 7) 1:08.38 ( 1) 139.435
4 Dmitry Lobkov  RUS 35.03 ( 3) 1:09.49 (10) 34.95 ( 2) 1:09.54 ( 9) 139.495
5 Beorn Nijenhuis  NED 35.31 ( 7) 1:08.96 ( 5) 35.36 ( 6) 1:08.89 ( 5) 139.565
6 Erben Wennemars  NED 35.20 ( 6) 1:08.67 ( 3) 35.69 (13) 1:08.79 ( 4) 139.620
7 Denny Morrison  CAN 35.86 (23) 1:08.68 ( 4) 35.81 (16) 1:08.78 ( 3) 140.400
8 Kip Carpenter  USA 35.34 ( 9) 1:09.86 (13) 35.55 (11) 1:09.60 (10) 140.620
9 Keiichiro Nagashima  JPN 34.97 ( 2) 1:10.09 (16) 35.35 ( 5) 1:10.62 (15) 140.675
10 Yevgeny Lalenkov  RUS 35.84 (20) 1:09.00 ( 6) 35.78 (15) 1:09.16 ( 6) 140.700
11 Even Wetten  NOR 35.18 ( 5) 1:09.39 ( 9) 35.66 (12) 1:10.72 (18) 140.895
12 Jan Bos  NED 35.69 (15) 1:09.32 ( 8) 35.97 (17) 1:09.24 ( 8) 140.940
13 Takaharu Nakajima  JPN 35.58 (11) 1:11.23 (26) 35.42 ( 7) 1:09.89 (12) 141.560
14 Tucker Fredricks  USA 35.33 ( 8) 1:11.32 (27) 35.22 ( 4) 1:10.71 (17) 141.565
15 Mika Poutala  FIN 35.62 (12) 1:10.34 (19) 35.53 ( 9) 1:10.74 (19) 141.690
16 Aleksey Proshin  RUS 35.73 (17) 1:10.28 (18) 36.16 (24) 1:10.17 (13) 142.115
17 Samuel Schwarz  GER 36.09 (24) 1:10.07 (15) 36.21 (25) 1:09.73 (11) 142.200
18 Choi Jae-bong  KOR 35.84 (20) 1:10.55 (20) 35.77 (14) 1:10.93 (22) 142.350
19 Dag Erik Kleven  NOR 35.76 (18) 1:10.68 (23) 36.08 (22) 1:10.60 (14) 142.480
20 Ermanno Ioriatti  ITA 35.85 (22) 1:10.60 (21) 35.99 (19) 1:10.69 (16) 142.485
21 Maciej Ustynowicz  POL 35.65 (14) 1:11.41 (29) 36.04 (21) 1:10.88 (20) 142.835
22 Chris Needham  USA 36.19 (26) 1:10.61 (22) 36.10 (23) 1:11.01 (23) 143.100
23 Jan Friesinger  GER 36.21 (27) 1:10.89 (24) 36.26 (27) 1:11.21 (24) 143.520
24 Aleksey Yesin  RUS 36.34 (26) 1:10.15 (17) 36.72 (31) 1:10.89 (21) 143.630
25 Pasi Koskela  FIN 36.18 (25) 1:11.91 (32) 35.98 (18) 1:11.46 (27) 143.845
26 Aleksandr Zhigin  KAZ 36.58 (30) 1:10.98 (25) 36.59 (29) 1:11.54 (28) 144.430
27 Artur Waś  POL 35.77 (19) 1:11.60 (31) 36.84 (32) 1:12.22 (29) 144.520
28 Vladimir Sherstyuk  KAZ 37.77 (31) 1:13.33 (34) 37.18 (33) 1:12.25 (30) 147.740
29 Marius Bǎcílǎ  ROM 38.16 (32) 1:14.83 (36) 38.42 (34) 1:15.06 (32) 151.525
30 Joel Eriksson  SWE 49.01 (34) 1:11.36 (28) 36.70 (30) 1:11.40 (26) 157.090
31 Sun Bing  CHN 53.37 (35) 1:12.56 (33) 36.37 (28) 1:12.59 (31) 162.315
32 Brock Miron  CAN 1:00.56 (36) 1:09.81 (12) 35.54 (10) 1:11.33 (25) 166.670
DQ1 Christoffer Fagerli Rukke  NOR DQ 1:09.79 (11) 36.02 (20)
DQ1 Risto Rosendahl  FIN DQ DQ 36.22 (26)
DQ3 Gerard van Velde  NED 35.69 (15) 1:09.94 (14) DQ
DQ3 Zhu Jianquan  CHN 36.45 (23) 1:14.50 (35) DQ
NS2 Mike Ireland  CAN 1:23.24 (37) NS
NS3 Hiroyasu Shimizu  JPN 35.34 ( 9) 1:11.47 (30) NS

DQ = disqualified
NS = Not Started

Women championships

Results

Rank Name Nation 500 m (1) 1000 m (1) 500 m (2) 1000 m (2) Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Anni Friesinger  GER 38.42 ( 5) 1:15.12 ( 1) 38.39 ( 5) 1:15.13 ( 1) 151.935
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ireen Wüst  NED 38.96 (14) 1:15.29 ( 2) 38.79 (10) 1:15.20 ( 2) 152.995
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Cindy Klassen  CAN 39.08 (16) 1:15.57 ( 3) 38.76 ( 8) 1:15.49 ( 3) 153.370
4 Shihomi Shinya  JPN 38.29 ( 2) 1:17.19 (11) 38.14 ( 2) 1:17.31 (10) 153.680
5 Chiara Simionato  ITA 38.50 ( 6) 1:16.54 ( 6) 38.73 ( 7) 1:16.48 ( 5) 153.785
6 Margot Boer  NED 38.67 ( 9) 1:16.79 ( 8) 38.81 (11) 1:16.55 ( 6) 154.150
7 Annette Gerritsen  NED 38.88 (13) 1:16.99 ( 9) 38.61 ( 6) 1:16.36 ( 4) 154.165
8 Svetlana Kaykan  RUS 38.32 ( 3) 1:17.73 (16) 38.29 ( 4) 1:18.41 (20) 154.680
9 Sayuri Osuga  JPN 38.35 ( 4) 1:17.74 (17) 38.26 ( 3) 1:18.47 (21) 154.715
10 Shannon Rempel  CAN 38.85 (11) 1:16.40 ( 5) 39.11 (15) 1:17.12 ( 8) 154.720
11 Sayuri Yoshii  JPN 38.77 (10) 1:17.13 (10) 38.99 (13) 1:17.64 (12) 155.145
12 Zhang Shuang  CHN 38.52 ( 7) 1:18.42 (21) 38.76 ( 8) 1:17.74 (13) 155.360
13 Yekaterina Lobysheva  RUS 39.15 (18) 1:16.78 ( 7) 39.40 (21) 1:17.14 ( 9) 155.510
14 Elli Ochowicz  USA 39.04 (15) 1:17.47 (12) 38.97 (12) 1:17.59 (11) 155.540
15 Kristina Groves  CAN 39.39 (22) 1:16.13 ( 4) 39.80 (24) 1:16.64 ( 7) 155.575
16 Tomomi Okazaki  JPN 38.66 ( 8) 1:17.75 (18) 39.09 (14) 1:18.12 (17) 155.685
17 Pamela Zöllner  GER 39.08 (16) 1:17.51 (14) 39.15 (16) 1:18.11 (16) 156.040
18 Judith Hesse  GER 39.16 (19) 1:17.84 (19) 39.39 (20) 1:18.18 (19) 156.560
19 Kim Yoo-rim  KOR 39.56 (24) 1:17.69 (15) 39.48 (22) 1:18.07 (15) 156.920
20 Yekaterina Abramova  RUS 39.42 (23) 1:18.71 (24) 39.23 (18) 1:17.86 (14) 156.935
21 Jin Peiyu  CHN 39.24 (20) 1:18.84 (25) 39.25 (19) 1:19.40 (25) 157.610
22 Chris Witty  USA 39.64 (25) 1:18.17 (20) 39.88 (25) 1:18.14 (18) 157.675
23 Paulina Wallin  SWE 39.24 (20) 1:20.07 (28) 39.21 (17) 1:20.34 (27) 158.665
24 Sofia Albertsson  SWE 39.92 (27) 1:18.50 (22) 40.08 (26) 1:18.87 (23) 158.685
25 Svetlana Radkevich  BLR 39.74 (26) 1:19.25 (27) 39.72 (23) 1:19.47 (26) 158.820
26 Hedvig Bjelkevik  NOR 40.19 (29) 1:18.69 (23) 40.39 (28) 1:18.84 (22) 159.345
27 Maren Haugli  NOR 40.75 (30) 1:18.99 (26) 40.96 (29) 1:19.36 (24) 160.885
28 Jessica Smith  USA 40.14 (28) 1:21.13 (29) 40.33 (27) 1:22.80 (29) 162.435
29 Daniela Oltean  ROM 41.59 (31) 1:21.66 (30) 41.55 (30) 1:21.77 (28) 164.855
DQ2 Jenny Wolf  GER 37.88 ( 1) DQ 38.07 ( 1)
NS3 Marianne Timmer  NED 38.85 (11) 1:17.49 (13) NS

DQ = disqualified
NS = Not Started

Rules

All participating skaters are allowed to skate the two 500 meters and two 1000 meters.

References