1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

The 1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 14–16 February 1997 in the M-Wave stadium in Nagano, Japan.

World Allround Speed Skating Championships
VenueM-Wave, Nagano
Dates14–16 February
Competitors36 (M), 30 (W) from 23 nations
Medalist men
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ids Postma  NED
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Keiji Shirahata  JPN
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Frank Dittrich  GER
Medalist women
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  GER
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Claudia Pechstein  GER
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tonny de Jong  NED

Title defenders were the 1996 world champions Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Rintje Ritsma from the Netherlands.

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Ids Postma from the Netherlands became world champions.

Allround results edit

Men edit

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 5000 m 1500 m 10000 m
  Ids Postma   Netherlands 157.906 37.36 (2) 6:49.09 (8) 1:51.78 (1) 14:07.54 (4)
  Keiji Shirahata   Japan 158.466 37.59 (3) 6:47.46 (3) 1:53.20 (6) 14:07.95 (5)
  Frank Dittrich   Germany 158.697 38.87 (19) 6:43.74 (2) 1:54.10 (9) 13:48.40 (2)
4 K. C. Boutiette   United States 158.739 37.93 (7) 6:48.62 (5) 1:52.53 (2) 14:08.75 (6)
5 Rintje Ritsma   Netherlands 159.090 37.99 (9) 6:48.96 (7) 1:53.12 (5) 14:09.97 (7)
6 Bart Veldkamp   Belgium 159.209 39.61 (26) 6:43.26 (1) 1:54.57 (11) 13:41.66 (1)
7 Hiroyuki Noake   Japan 160.461 37.70 (4) 6:51.32 (11) 1:53.11 (4) 14:38.53 (11)
8 Toru Aoyanagi   Japan 160.900 38.16 (12) 6:56.23 (13) 1:54.17 (10) 14:21.22 (8)
9 Neal Marshall   Canada 161.067 37.96 (8) 6:59.02 (17) 1:53.68 (7) 14:26.24 (9)
10 Dave Tamburrino   United States 161.454 38.37 (15) 6:53.35 (12) 1:55.01 (12) 14:28.27 (10)
11 Lasse Sætre   Norway 161.503 40.10 (30) 6:47.97 (4) 1:56.65 (22) 13:54.46 (3)
12 Jason Parker   Canada 163.034 38.17 (13) 7:05.64 (25) 1:52.96 (3) 14:52.95 (12)
NC13 Kevin Marshall   Canada 118.418 38.01 (10) 7:00.15 (19) 1:55.18 (14)
NC14 Falko Zandstra   Netherlands 118.621 38.06 (11) 7:01.35 (22) 1:55.28 (15)
NC15 Uwe Tonat   Germany 118.627 39.21 (14) 6:50.74 (10) 1:55.03 (13)
NC16 Anatoli Krasheninin   Russia 119.208 38.94 (21) 6:56.62 (15) 1:55.82 (18)
NC17 Marnix ten Kortenaar   Austria 119.593 39.06 (22) 6:58.87 (16) 1:55.94 (19)
NC18 Ermanno Ioriatti   Italy 120.043 37.74 (5) 7:12.20 (29) 1:57.25 (23)
NC19 Dmitry Shepel   Russia 120.063 38.64 (17) 7:09.33 (27) 1:55.47 (16)
NC20 Tim Hoffmann   United States 120.140 38.25 (14) 7:13.20 (30) 1:55.71 (17)
NC21 Lee Kyou-hyuk   South Korea 120.181 37.14 (1) 7:23.58 (34) 1:56.05 (20)
NC22 Roberto Sighel   Italy 120.274 38.84 (18) 7:02.68 (23) 1:57.50 (25)
NC23 Radik Bikchentayev   Kazakhstan 120.295 39.21 (24) 7:03.62 (24) 1:56.17 (21)
NC24 Jonas Schön   Sweden 120.768 39.67 (27) 7:00.15 (19) 1:57.25 (23)
NC25 Christian Breuer   Germany 121.214 39.18 (23) 7:07.38 (26) 1:57.89 (26)
NC26 Jaromir Radke   Poland 121.241 40.31 (32) 6:56.25 (14) 1:57.92 (27)
NC27 Cédric Kuentz   France 121.287 39.68 (28) 7:01.14 (21) 1:58.48 (28)
NC28 Davide Carta   Italy 121.399 37.86 (6) 7:19.99 (33) 1:58.62 (29)
NC29 Vitali Novichenko   Belarus 121.642 38.88 (20) 7:11.32 (28) 1:58.89 (30)
NC30 Kjell Storelid   Norway 121.701 40.90 (34) 6:49.45 (9) 1:59.57 (32)
NC31 Martin Feigenwinter   Switzerland 123.335 41.25 (35) 6:59.95 (18) 2:00.27 (34)
NC32 Boris Uvarov   Ukraine 123.617 40.21 (31) 7:14.84 (31) 1:59.77 (33)
NC33 Andrew Nicholson   New Zealand 124.450 39.81 (29) 7:19.57 (32) 2:02.05 (35)
NC34 Cédric Michaud   France 127.012 40.87 (33) 7:28.32 (35) 2:03.93 (36)
NC35 Paweł Zygmunt   Poland 127.853 38.50 (16) 8:15.50 (36f) 1:59.41 (31)
NC36 Vadim Sayutin   Russia 78.823 - (DQ) 6:48.63 (6) 1:53.88 (8)

bold signifies championship record.

Women edit

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m
  Gunda Niemann-Kleemann   Germany 165.708 WR 40.79 (2) 2:00.51 (1) 4:10.40 (1) 7:10.15 (1)
  Claudia Pechstein   Germany 168.179 41.31 (9) 2:02.52 (3) 4:13.95 (2) 7:17.04 (3)
  Tonny de Jong   Netherlands 168.206 41.09 (6) 2:03.08 (5) 4:15.91 (3) 7:14.39 (2)
4 Anni Friesinger   Germany 168.751 41.52 (13) 2:02.00 (2) 4:16.24 (4) 7:18.59 (4)
5 Annamarie Thomas   Netherlands 169.605 40.53 (1) 2:02.79 (4) 4:18.45 (6) 7:30.70 (9)
6 Svetlana Bazhanova   Russia 169.695 41.61 (14) 2:03.47 (6) 4:17.77 (5) 7:19.68 (6)
7 Lyudmila Prokasheva   Kazakhstan 170.125 41.93 (17) 2:03.48 (7) 4:18.68 (8) 7:19.22 (5)
8 Mie Uehara   Japan 170.733 41.28 (8) 2:03.57 (8) 4:21.47 (11) 7:26.85 (7)
9 Barbara de Loor   Netherlands 171.764 41.99 (18) 2:05.24 (12) 4:18.51 (7) 7:29.43 (8)
10 Chiharu Nozaki   Japan 172.490 41.08 (5) 2:04.58 (9) 4:25.96 (18) 7:35.58 (10)
11 Becky Sundstrom   United States 173.344 40.89 (3) 2:05.66 (13) 4:26.51 (19) 7:41.50 (11)
12 Varvara Barysheva   Russia 174.087 41.75 (15) 2:05.21 (11) 4:23.51 (13) 7:46.83 (12)
NC13 Emese Hunyady   Austria 127.623 41.24 (7) 2:06.33 (16) 4:25.64 (16)
NC14 Anette Tønsberg   Norway 127.823 42.22 (19) 2:06.09 (14) 4:21.44 (10)
NC15 Mihaela Dascălu   Romania 127.999 41.38 (10) 2:07.72 (18) 4:24.28 (15)
NC16 Kirstin Holum   United States 128.009 43.05 (24) 2:05.11 (10) 4:19.54 (9)
NC17 Tatyana Trapeznikova   Russia 128.104 42.22 (19) 2:06.14 (15) 4:23.03 (12)
NC18 Moira D'Andrea   United States 128.169 41.07 (4) 2:06.50 (17) 4:29.60 (21)
NC19 Noriko Munekata   Japan 129.471 42.45 (22) 2:09.10 (20) 4:23.93 (14)
NC20 Cindy Overland   Canada 129.838 42.47 (23) 2:08.11 (19) 4:27.99 (20)
NC21 You Yanchun   China 130.299 41.42 (11) 2:09.85 (21) 4:33.58 (22)
NC22 Cerasela Hordobețiu   Romania 131.369 42.40 (21) 2:10.12 (23) 4:33.58 (22)
NC23 Elena Belci-Dal Farra   Italy 131.728 43.98 (30) 2:10.35 (24) 4:25.79 (17)
NC24 Krisztina Egyed   Hungary 132.270 41.89 (16) 2:10.11 (22) 4:42.06 (28)
NC25 Christina Schön   Sweden 132.521 43.24 (26) 2:10.91 (25) 4:33.87 (24)
NC26 Svetlana Konstantinova   Ukraine 132.863 43.43 (28) 2:11.20 (27) 4:34.20 (26)
NC27 Chiara Simionato   Italy 132.884 43.24 (26) 2:11.92 (29) 4:34.03 (25)
NC28 Ingrid Liepa   Canada 133.482 43.21 (25) 2:11.15 (26) 4:39.34 (27)
NC29 Kang Mi-yeong   South Korea 133.640 41.45 (12) 2:11.91 (28) 4:49.32 (30)
NC30 Ilonda Lūse   Latvia 136.215 43.78 (29) 2:14.16 (30) 4:46.29 (29)

bold signifies championship record.

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