Speed skating or even speedskating occurs as form of ice skating in which a competition attempt to travel the certain few feet away on top the ice when quickly when imaginable. Related sports come short track speed skating and inline speed skating.

History

origins inside the.o. Netherlands innovation of ISU (IEV) development of the competitions

Speed skating occurs as Winter Olympic Games medal sport. A sport was revolutionized in a Nineties by having the introduction of clap skates which can reduce lap days by another.

Rules

Speed skating is presently conducted in outdoor even or indoor ellipse, typically by using by artificial means frozen ice. For the Olympic Games, system require the closed (indoor) oval-shaped track. Based on data from a system of the International Skating Union, a standard track should exist as either 400 m or even 333 ^One/_Threesome m hanker. 400 m is the standard utilized for 100% major competitions. Tracks of more, non-standard lengths, such 200 or even 250 m, come besides witharound utilize in a few site for expert training and/or little local competitions.

In standard tracks, a curves have a radius of 25–26 m in the inner lane, & from each one lane is Four–Five m wide.

Tons races come held inside pairs, for which ii lanes on the track come utilized. Skaters put on elastic around their upper arm to identify which lane it began within. A colors come white for inner lane & red for outer lane. At a back straight, a skaters switch lanes which stimulates a babies each to handle the equivalent few feet away by the lap. Now and then, quartet starts come utilized to allow additional skaters to beginside in the shorter instance. This involves getting 2 pairs of skaters in a lanes at a equivalent instance, however by owning a 2nd pair starting whilst the foremost use completed or so half of the 1st lap. A skaters in the 2nd pair may so have on yellowness & blue armlet instead of the common white/red.

Material

ice skate clap skates

Competition format

Single distances

A virtually all basic form of speed skating consists of skating one event. This is the format utilized for the World Single Distance Championships and the World Cup. Common few feet away include a D m, Thousand m, 1500 m, 3000 m (women lone), 5000 m & Ten thousand m (men merely), however many more distances come every now and again skated. For championships, a D m & a G m come presently conducted inside 2 diarrhea, using a final ranking according to accumulated days.

Allround

One of a oldest skating formats is the allround event. Skaters skate quartet distances & a ranking is manufactured higher according to the days skated in a lot one distances. In essence, any combination of tetrad cases is conceivable, however a resulting combinations come normally utilized:

Sprint: D m, G m, Five hundred m, G m—this format is utilized for the Globe Sprint Championships (each men & women) Mini combination: D m, Thou m, 1500 m, 3000 m—this format was antecedently utilized at the World Allround Championships for women. Little combination: D m, 1500 m, 3000 m, 5000 m—this format is presently utilized at the World Allround Championships for women. Large combination: Five hundred m, 1500 m, 5000 m, Myriad m—this format is utilized for the Globe Allround Championships for men.

A method of scoring is the equivalent for tons combinations. Completely days come estimated back to D m days. That means that D m inside Xl seconds may give we Xl points, when 1500 m (Three×500 m) within Ii minutes (Long hundred seconds, same to Three×40 s) might besides give professional people Xl points. Points come estimated to Triad decimal site, & truncation is applied, the statistics are non rounded. A skater world health organization has a fewest points wins a competiton.

Marathon

Skaters skate inside heavy class action skate big distances. After conducted at a skating rink, the distances is commonly as much as Forty klick, however after skated in frozen outdoor a river, a distances may be when yearn when 200 kilometre. An case of this is the celebrated Elfstedentocht (Eleven cities tour) which is irregularly held in the Netherlands.

Champions

A International Skating Union has organized world championships speed skating since 1893.

[http://weasel.student.utwente.nl/~speedskating Speed skating results]

Male speedskaters
Hjalmar Andersen Petter Andersen Terje Andersen Ki-Tae Bae Andrey Bakhvalov Ivar Ballangrud Aleksandr Baranov Jelmer Beulenkamp Dmitri Bochkaryov Jens Boden Jan Bos Thomas Bos Gaétan Boucher Sylvain Bouchard KC Boutiette Oleg Bozhev Kip Carpenter Joey Cheek Shani Davis Lieuwe de Boer Frank Dittrich Jaap Eden Andreas Ehrig Steven Elm Kai Arne Engelstad Eskil Ervik Rolf Falk-Larssen Casey FitzRandolph Eric Flaim Sergey Fokichev Aleksandr Golubyov Nikolay Gulyayev Tomas Gustafson Michael Hadschieff Chad Hedrick Eric Heiden André Hoffmann Manabu Horii Junichi Inoue Dan Jansen Bob de Jong Geir Karlstad Joji Kato Gerard Kemkers Sergey Khlebnikov Yun-Man Kim Yoshihiro Kitazawa Sergey Klevchenya Piet Kleine Pekka Koskela Johann Olav Koss Sven Kramer Yevgeni Kulikov Akira Kuroiwa Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Kyu-Hyuk Lee Jakko Jan Leeuwangh Vladimir Lobanov Dmitry Lobkov Viktor Lyoskin Igor Malkov Neal Marshall Oscar Mathisen Anatoli Medennikov Uwe-Jens Mey Yukihiro Mitani Yasunori Miyabe Yukinori Miyabe Hiroyuki Noake Dmitri Ogloblin Kevin Overland Tom Erik Oxholm Derek Parra Pavel Pegov Tom Plant Tom Prinsen Ids Postma Rintje Ritsma Gianni Romme Frode Rønning Lasse Sætre Vadim Sayutin Ard Schenk René Schöfisch Kevin Scott Viktor Shasherin Keiji Shirahata Dmitri Shepel Hiroyasu Shimizu Roberto Sighel Amund Martin Sjøbrend Julius Skutnabb Ådne Søndrål Kay Arne Stenshjemmet Rune Stordal Kjell Storelid Jan Egil Storholt Roger Strøm Nick Thometz Clas Thunberg Mark Tuitert Jochem Uytdehaage Ben van der Burg Hilbert van der Duim Gerard van Velde Bart Veldkamp Hein Vergeer Carl Verheijen Kees Verkerk Leo Visser Justin Warsylewicz Erben Wennemars Jeremy Wotherspoon Even Wetten Jan Ykema Kim Yun-Man Falko Zandstra Igor Zhelezovksi Olaf Zinke

Female speedskaters
Inga Artamonova Bonnie Blair Anni Friesinger Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt Renate Groenewold Clara Hughes Karin Kania Cindy Klassen Catriona Le May Doan Kaija Mustonen Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Claudia Pechstein Shannon Rempel Jennifer Rodriguez Lidia Skoblikova Gretha Smit Marianne Timmer Yvonne van Gennip Ria Visser Chris Witty Tanya Guilbert

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