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Long track speed skating, Thialf, 2008. The standard rink for long track is 400 meters long, [2] but tracks of 200, 250 and 333 1 ⁄ 3 meters are used occasionally. It is one of two Olympic forms of the sport and the one with the longer history.
Long-track speed skating, usually simply referred to as speed skating, is the Olympic discipline of speed skating where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as ice skating marathon, short-track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating.
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The ISU Speed Skating World Cup is a series of international speed skating competitions, organised annually by the International Skating Union since the winter of 1985–86. Every year during the winter season, a number of competitions on different distances and on different locations are held.
The dimensions of a standard speed skating rink. The measurement of the track is made half a meter into the lane. [4] The total length of the track is the distance a competitor skates each lap, i.e. the length of two straights, one inner curve and one outer curve, in addition to the extra distance skated when changing lanes in the cross-over area, which on a standard track equals 7 centimeters.
In 2006, Canadian Cindy Klassen became the only other speed skater, and one of seven Winter Olympians, to win five medals—one gold, two silver, two bronze—at a single edition of the Games. [5] Pechstein, American Bonnie Blair , and Sven Kramer of the Netherlands are the only speed skaters to win gold in the same event three times in a row.
The 2025 Four Continents Speed Skating Championships were held from 15 to 17 November 2024 at the YS Arena in Hachinohe, Japan. Medal summary. Medal table
Figure skating, a sport in which individuals, duos, or groups perform on figure skates on ice Synchronized skating, a sport where between eight and sixteen perform together as a team; Speed skating, a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates