Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games

Speed skating at the 1996 Winter Asian Games took place in Heilongjiang Indoor Rink Harbin-Nangang in the city of Harbin, China with nine events contested — five for men and four for women. The events were scheduled for February 5– February 9, 1996.

Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
Venue	Heilongjiang Indoor Rink
Dates	5–9 February 1996
Competitors	53 from 5 nations

Schedule

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Race

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Last race

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Final

Event↓/Date →	5th Mon	6th Tue	7th Wed	8th Thu	9th Fri
Men's 500 m	●	●
Men's 1000 m				F
Men's 1500 m			F
Men's 5000 m	F
Men's 10000 m					F
Women's 500 m	●	●
Women's 1000 m				F
Women's 1500 m			F
Women's 3000 m	F

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 m	Jaegal Sung-yeol  South Korea	Shared gold	Kim Yoon-man  South Korea
	Takahiro Hamamichi  Japan
1000 m	Yusuke Imai  Japan	Kim Yoon-man  South Korea	Vadim Shakshakbayev  Kazakhstan
1500 m	Yusuke Imai  Japan	Shinya Tanaka  Japan	Sergey Tsybenko  Kazakhstan
5000 m	Mitsuru Watanabe  Japan	Daigo Miyaki  Japan	Yevgeniy Sanarov  Kazakhstan
10000 m	Shigekazu Nemoto  Japan	Radik Bikchentayev  Kazakhstan	Yevgeniy Sanarov  Kazakhstan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 m	Wang Manli  China	Shared gold	Jin Hua  China
	Xue Ruihong  China
1000 m	Chun Hee-joo  South Korea	Aki Tonoike  Japan	Chihiro Monda  Japan
1500 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan	Aki Tonoike  Japan	Eriko Seo  Japan
3000 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan	Eriko Seo  Japan	Saori Igami  Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	5	3	13
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	1	4	7
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	1	4
4	China (CHN)	2	0	1	3
Totals (4 entries)		11	7	9	27

Participating nations

A total of 53 athletes from 5 nations competed in speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games:

•  China (15)
•  Japan (18)
•  Kazakhstan (9)
•  Mongolia (1)
•  South Korea (10)

References

• Results of the 3rd Asian Winter Games at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
• Results