Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia
Dates	8–22 February 2014
No. of events	12
Competitors	179 from 23 nations
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Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Qualification
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Team pursuit	men	women
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Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia, between 8 and 22 February 2014.^[1]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all twelve events.^[1] With the exception of the Team pursuit events, all rounds of each event were concluded within a single session.

All times are (UTC+4).

Medal summary

Netherlands dominated in speed skating, winning a total of 23 medals including eight out of the twelve gold medals and medals in all events.^[2] There were four Dutch podium sweeps where the Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medal, making the Netherlands the first country in Olympic speed skating history to achieve this. The events were the: Men's 5000m, Men's 500m, Women's 1500m and Men's 10,000m. In the women's 1,500 metres, Dutch athletes placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th; the first such result in Olympic speed skating history by athletes from a single nation.

On 24 November 2017 the silver medal of Olga Fatkulina was disqualified as part of the Russian team doping case. On 1 February 2018, Olga Fatkulina successfully appealed against IOC decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. As a result, her silver medal was reinstated.

(WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Russia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	8	7	8	23
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
5	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
6	Russia (RUS)*	0	1	2	3
7	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
Totals (7 entries)		12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	69.31	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	69.32	Ronald Mulder  Netherlands	69.46
1000 metres details	Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:08.39	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:08.43	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	1:08.74
1500 metres details	Zbigniew Bródka  Poland	1:45.006	Koen Verweij  Netherlands	1:45.009	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:45.22
5000 metres details	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:10.76 OR	Jan Blokhuijsen  Netherlands	6:15.71	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	6:16.66
10,000 metres details	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	12:44.45 OR	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	12:49.02	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	13:07.19
Team pursuit details	Netherlands (NED) Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:37.71 OR	South Korea (KOR) Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3:40.85	Poland (POL) Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:41.94

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details [a]	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	74.70 OR	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	75.06	Margot Boer  Netherlands	75.48
1000 metres details	Zhang Hong  China	1:14.02	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:14.69	Margot Boer  Netherlands	1:14.90
1500 metres details	Jorien ter Mors  Netherlands	1:53.51 OR	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:54.09	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	1:54.54
3000 metres details	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:00.34	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:01.95	Olga Graf  Russia	4:03.47
5000 metres details	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:51.54	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	6:54.28	Carien Kleibeuker  Netherlands	6:55.66
Team pursuit details	Netherlands (NED) Jorien ter Mors Marrit Leenstra Lotte van Beek Ireen Wüst	2:58.05 OR	Poland (POL) Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska Katarzyna Woźniak	3:05.55	Russia (RUS) Olga Graf Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova Yuliya Skokova	2:59.73

• ^{women's 500 m} On 24 November 2017, silver medalist from Russia Olga Fatkulina was disqualified for a doping violation.^[3] On 1 February 2018, her results were restored as a result of the successful appeal.^[4]

Olympic records broken

Event	Date	Round	Name	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 5000 metres	8 February	Pair 10	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:10.76	OR	[5]
Women's 500 metres	11 February	Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	37.28	OR	[6]
	11 February	Race 1 Pair 18 Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	74.70	OR	[6]
Women's 1500 metres	16 February	Pair 9	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	OR	[7]
Men's 10,000 metres	18 February	Pair 6	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12:44.45	OR	[8]

Other records

• A total of four podium sweeps were recorded in speed skating, where one nation won the gold, silver and bronze medals in a single event. This was the highest number of podium sweeps to have occurred in speed skating in Olympic history. Every one of these four podium sweeps was won by the Netherlands team.^[9]

Date	Event	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref
8 February	Men's 5000m	Netherlands	Sven Kramer	Jan Blokhuijsen	Jorrit Bergsma	[10]
10 February	Men's 500m	Netherlands	Michel Mulder	Jan Smeekens	Ronald Mulder	[11]
16 February	Women's 1500m	Netherlands	Jorien ter Mors	Ireen Wüst	Lotte van Beek	[12]
18 February	Men's 10,000m	Netherlands	Jorrit Bergsma	Sven Kramer	Bob de Jong	[13]

Qualification

Each NOC was allowed to delegate a maximal number of ten men and ten women speed skaters who reached the qualification criteria. A proposal of the Dutch skating association (KNSB) to add an extra athlete, especially for the team pursuit event, was rejected at the congress of the international federation ISU in Kuala Lumpur in June 2012.^[14]

Qualification times

The qualification times were released in July 2013. The women's times stayed the same from Vancouver except for a more stringent standard in the 3000 m, while the men's qualification times have all slightly decreased.^[15]

Participating nations

A total of 181 athletes from 23 nations participated (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). Chinese Taipei made its debut in the sport.

References

External links

• Official Results Book – Speed Skating