List of Olympic venues in speed skating
For the Winter Olympics there are 22 venues that have been or will be used for speed skating . The first venues were outdoors on natural ice with the last one being held at 1956 . Calgary 's 1988 venue was the first to be constructed for indoor use. The last venue held outdoors was at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . Since the 1994 Games , all of the long track speed skating venues have been indoors.
Games
Venue
Other sports hosted at venue for those games
Capacity
Ref.
1924 Chamonix
Stade Olympique de Chamonix
Cross-country skiing , curling , figure skating , ice hockey ,military patrol , Nordic combined (cross-country skiing)
45,000
[ 1]
1928 St. Moritz
St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink
Figure skating , ice hockey
4,000
[ 2] [ 3]
1932 Lake Placid
Olympic Stadium
Ice hockey
7,475
[ 4]
1936 Garmisch- Partenkirchen
Riessersee
Bobsleigh , ice hockey
16,000 (17,940 bobsleigh)
[ 5]
1948 St. Moritz
Olympic Stadium
Figure skating , ice hockey (final)
Not listed.
[ 6]
1952 Oslo
Bislett Stadion
Bandy (demonstration), figure skating , opening ceremonies
29,000
[ 7]
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
La pista di Misurina
None
8,550
[ 8]
1960 Squaw Valley
Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Ice hockey
Not listed.
[ 9]
1964 Innsbruck
Eisschnellaufbahn
None
Not listed.
[ 10]
1968 Grenoble
L'Anneau de Vitesse
None
2,500
[ 11]
1972 Sapporo
Makomanai Speed Skating Rink
Opening ceremonies
50,000
[ 12]
1976 Innsbruck
Eisschnellaufbahn
None
7,000
[ 13]
1980 Lake Placid
James B. Sheffield Speed Skating Oval
None
Not listed.
[ 14]
1984 Sarajevo
Zetra Ice Rink
None
Not listed.
[ 15]
1988 Calgary
Olympic Oval
None
4,000
[ 16]
1992 Albertville
L'anneau de vitesse
None
10,000
[ 17]
1994 Lillehammer
Hamar Olympic Hall
None
10,600
[ 18]
1998 Nagano
M-Wave
None
10,000
[ 19]
2002 Salt Lake City
Utah Olympic Oval
None
5,236
[ 20]
2006 Turin
Oval Lingotto
None
8,250
[ 21]
2010 Vancouver
Richmond Olympic Oval
None
8,000
[ 22]
2014 Sochi
Adler Arena Skating Center
None
8,000
[ 23]
2018 PyeongChang
Gangneung Oval
None
8,000
[ 24] [ 25]
2022 Beijing
Beijing National Speed Skating Oval
None
12,000
2026 Milan-Cortina
Milan Ice Park
None
6,500
[ 26] [ 27]
2030 French Alps
Oval Lingotto , Turin , Italy
None
8,500
2034 Salt Lake City–Utah
Utah Olympic Oval
None
7,500
References
^ 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 645, 648–650. (in French)
^ 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Part 1. p. 46. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
^ 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine Part 2. pp. 1–7, 15. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
^ 1932 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 141, 147–150. Accessed 12 October 2010.
^ 1936 Olympic Winter Games official report. Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine pp. 70, 71, 74, 132–140, 153, 408–419. Accessed 16 October 2010. (in German)
^ 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 6, 23. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French and German)
^ 1952 Winter Olympic official report. Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine p. 28.
^ The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIIth Winter Olympic Games 1956 at Cortina . (1956) CONI. pp. 180–188, 191. Accessed 24 October 2010. (in English and Italian)
^ 1960 Winter Olympics official report. p. 121. Accessed 27 October 2010.
^ 1964 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine p. 142. Accessed 30 October 2010. (in German)
^ 1968 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 105–106. Accessed 1 November 2010. (in English and French)
^ 1972 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 253–255. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English and French)
^ 1976 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 205–207. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English, French, and German)
^ 1980 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 43–47. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English and French)
^ 1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-11-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 73–86, 105–108. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
^ 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 144–151. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
^ 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 84–87. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
^ 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 51–56. Accessed 8 December 2010.
^ 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 212–214. Accessed 12 December 2010.
^ 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 96–97. Accessed 21 December 2010.
^ 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 66–67. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
^ "Venues–Richmond Olympic Oval" . Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10 .
^ Sochi2014.com profile of the Olympic Oval. Accessed 31 December 2010.
^ PyeongChang2018.orgm profile of the Olympic Venues. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 31 December 2010.
^ "Pyeongchang 2018 move venue for Opening and Closing Ceremonies" . July 6, 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012 .
^ Rowbottom, MIke (19 April 2023). "Milan The Unanimous Choice for Speed Skating at 2026 Winter Olympics" . Inside the Games . Retrieved 19 April 2023 .
^ Ridley, Bob (19 April 2023). "Fiera Milano Rho To Be New Home for Speed Skating at 2026 Winter Olympics" . The Stadium Business . Retrieved 19 April 2023 .