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Games Date Ref 500 metres 34.32 Gao Tingyu China: 2022 Beijing: 12 February 2022 [1] 500 metres × 2 [A] 69.23 Casey FitzRandolph United States: 2002 Salt Lake City: 11 February 2002 [2] 1000 metres 1:07.18 Gerard van Velde Netherlands: 2002 Salt Lake City: 16 February 2002 [2] 1500 metres 1:43.21 Kjeld Nuis Netherlands: 2022 Beijing: 8 ...
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.
A total of 24 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of two athletes per NOC. All 24 athletes qualified through their performance at the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. [2] The qualification time for the event (2:10.00 (1500 m)) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. [3]
American Laulauga Tausaga-Collins took gold in the women’s discus at the 2023 World Athletic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Tuesday. Tausaga-Collins won the competition with a throw of ...
The women's event was first contested at the 1928 Olympics, being one of the five athletics events in the inaugural Olympic women's programme. The Olympic records are 70 m (229 ft 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) for men, set by Roje Stona in 2024, and 72.30 m (237 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) for women, set by Martina Hellmann in 1988.
Valarie Allman’s unprecedented path to double Olympic gold might spark a dance-to-discus pipeline. Allman dominated the women’s discus competition on Monday night, winning gold despite not ...
For the 2018 Winter Olympics the total quota was 180 athletes (maximum 100 men and 80 women). [4] The maximum total number of athletes per gender per nation was 9, compared to 10 in 2018. Countries were assigned quotas based on the results of ISU Speed Skating World Cup competitions.
These Games in Lake Placid, New York, also saw the first female speed skaters at the Olympics in a set of demonstration events, with all victories being achieved by North American athletes. Women's events were also set to be held at the 1940 Winter Olympics, [1] which were cancelled.