Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Speed skating
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating; at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia
Dates	8–22 February 2014
No. of events	12
Competitors	179 from 23 nations
	← 2010 2018 →

Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia, between 8 and 22 February 2014.^[1]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all twelve events.^[1] With the exception of the Team pursuit events, all rounds of each event were concluded within a single session.

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
8 February	15:30	Men's 5000 metres
9 February	15:30	Women's 3000 metres
10 February	17:00	Men's 500 metres
11 February	16:45	Women's 500 metres
12 February	18:00	Men's 1000 metres
13 February	18:00	Women's 1000 metres
15 February	17:30	Men's 1500 metres
16 February	18:00	Women's 1500 metres
18 February	17:00	Men's 10000 metres
19 February	17:30	Women's 5000 metres
21 February	17:30	Team pursuit men – qualification
21 February	17:30	Team pursuit women – qualification
22 February	17:30	Team pursuit men – Finals
22 February	17:30	Team pursuit women – Finals

Medal summary

Netherlands dominated in speed skating, winning a total of 23 medals including eight out of the twelve gold medals and medals in all events.^[2] There were four Dutch podium sweeps where the Netherlands won the gold, silver and bronze medal, making the Netherlands the first country in Olympic speed skating history to achieve this. The events were the: Men's 5000m, Men's 500m, Women's 1500m and Men's 10,000m. In the women's 1,500 metres, Dutch athletes placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th; the first such result in Olympic speed skating history by athletes from a single nation.

On 24 November 2017 the silver medal of Olga Fatkulina was disqualified as part of the Russian team doping case. On 1 February 2018, Olga Fatkulina successfully appealed against IOC decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. As a result, her silver medal was reinstated.

(WR = World Record, OR = Olympic Record)

Medal table

* Host nation (Russia)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	8	7	8	23
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	1	3
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
3	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
5	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
6	Russia (RUS)*	0	1	2	3
7	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
Totals (7 entries)		12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Michel Mulder Netherlands	69.31	Jan Smeekens Netherlands	69.32	Ronald Mulder Netherlands	69.46
1000 metres details	Stefan Groothuis Netherlands	1:08.39	Denny Morrison Canada	1:08.43	Michel Mulder Netherlands	1:08.74
1500 metres details	Zbigniew Bródka Poland	1:45.006	Koen Verweij Netherlands	1:45.009	Denny Morrison Canada	1:45.22
5000 metres details	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:10.76 OR	Jan Blokhuijsen Netherlands	6:15.71	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	6:16.66
10,000 metres details	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	12:44.45 OR	Sven Kramer Netherlands	12:49.02	Bob de Jong Netherlands	13:07.19
Team pursuit details	Netherlands (NED) Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:37.71 OR	South Korea (KOR) Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	3:40.85	Poland (POL) Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	3:41.94

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details ^[a]	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	74.70 OR	Olga Fatkulina Russia	75.06	Margot Boer Netherlands	75.48
1000 metres details	Zhang Hong China	1:14.02	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:14.69	Margot Boer Netherlands	1:14.90
1500 metres details	Jorien ter Mors Netherlands	1:53.51 OR	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:54.09	Lotte van Beek Netherlands	1:54.54
3000 metres details	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:00.34	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:01.95	Olga Graf Russia	4:03.47
5000 metres details	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:51.54	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	6:54.28	Carien Kleibeuker Netherlands	6:55.66
Team pursuit details	Netherlands (NED) Jorien ter Mors Marrit Leenstra Lotte van Beek Ireen Wüst	2:58.05 OR	Poland (POL) Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska Katarzyna Woźniak	3:05.55	Russia (RUS) Olga Graf Yekaterina Lobysheva Yekaterina Shikhova Yuliya Skokova	2:59.73

^{women's 500 m} On 24 November 2017, silver medalist from Russia Olga Fatkulina was disqualified for a doping violation.^[3] On 1 February 2018, her results were restored as a result of the successful appeal.^[4]

Olympic records broken

Event	Date	Round	Name	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 5000 metres	8 February	Pair 10	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:10.76	OR	^[5]
Women's 500 metres	11 February	Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	37.28	OR	^[6]
Women's 500 metres	11 February	Race 1 Pair 18 Race 2 Pair 17	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	74.70	OR	^[6]
Women's 1500 metres	16 February	Pair 9	Jorien ter Mors	Netherlands	1:53.51	OR	^[7]
Men's 10,000 metres	18 February	Pair 6	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12:44.45	OR	^[8]

Other records

A total of four podium sweeps were recorded in speed skating, where one nation won the gold, silver and bronze medals in a single event. This was the highest number of podium sweeps to have occurred in speed skating in Olympic history. Every one of these four podium sweeps was won by the Netherlands team.^[9]

Date	Event	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref
8 February	Men's 5000m	Netherlands	Sven Kramer	Jan Blokhuijsen	Jorrit Bergsma	^[10]
10 February	Men's 500m	Netherlands	Michel Mulder	Jan Smeekens	Ronald Mulder	^[11]
16 February	Women's 1500m	Netherlands	Jorien ter Mors	Ireen Wüst	Lotte van Beek	^[12]
18 February	Men's 10,000m	Netherlands	Jorrit Bergsma	Sven Kramer	Bob de Jong	^[13]

Qualification

Each NOC was allowed to delegate a maximal number of ten men and ten women speed skaters who reached the qualification criteria. A proposal of the Dutch skating association (KNSB) to add an extra athlete, especially for the team pursuit event, was rejected at the congress of the international federation ISU in Kuala Lumpur in June 2012.^[14]

Qualification times

The qualification times were released in July 2013. The women's times stayed the same from Vancouver except for a more stringent standard in the 3000 m, while the men's qualification times have all slightly decreased.^[15]

Event	Men	Women
500 m	35.90	39.50
1000 m	1:10.80	1:18.50
1500 m	1:48.50	2:00.00
3000 m	—	4:15.00
5000 m	6:33.00	7:20.00 or 4:10.00 (3000 m)
10,000 m	13:30.00 or 6:28.00 (5000 m)	—