The 1998 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 13–15 March 1998 in the Thialf stadium in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
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| Venue | Thialf, Heerenveen | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 13–15 March | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 37 (M), 28 (W) from 22 nations | ||||||||||||
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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 edit
Men edit
| Place | Athlete | Country | Points | 500 m | 5000 m | 1500 m | 10000 m |
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Ids Postma |  Netherlands |
153.367 WR | 36.48 (1) | 6:33.09 (1) | 1:48.85 (1) | 13:45.91 (4) |
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Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands |
154.091 | 37.17 (4) | 6:34.68 (3) | 1:48.86 (2) | 13:43.35 (2) |
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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 edit
| Place | Athlete | Country | Points | 500 m | 1500 m | 3000 m | 5000 m |
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Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann | Germany |
163.020 WR | 40.57 (9) | 1:58.69 (1) | 4:05.08 (1) WR | 7:00.41 (1) |
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Claudia Pechstein | Germany |
163.669 | 40.12 (4) | 1:59.26 (2) | 4:07.36 (2) | 7:05.70 (2) |
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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 edit
- ^ "Uitslag WK Allround mannen 1998". SchaatsStatistieken.nl.
- ^ "Uitslag WK Allround vrouwen 1998". SchaatsStatistieken.nl.
- ^ "Postma Repeats World Title". The New York Times. 16 March 1998.