2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

The 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships took place between 21 and 24 March 2013 in the Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia. It was a test event for the 2014 Olympic Games.[1]

World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Adler Arena (Sochi)
Dates	21–24 March 2013

Schedule

Date	Time	Events
21 March	16:35	1500 m men
	17:30	3000 m women
22 March	15:00	1000 m men
	15:51	1500 m women
	16:53	5000 m men
23 March	13:30	1000 m women
	14:25	10000 m men
	17:35	5000 m women
24 March	15:00	500 m women
		500 m men
	18:06	Team pursuit women
		Team pursuit men

Source: schaatsen.nl[2]& ISU.org[3]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	69.760 TR	Joji Kato  Japan	+0.06	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	+0.10
1000 m	Denis Kuzin  Kazakhstan	1:09.14 TR	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	+0.10	Shani Davis  United States	+0.16
1500 m	Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:46.32 TR	Shani Davis  United States	+0.51	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	+0.65
5000 m	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:14.41 TR	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	+3.53	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	+3.90
10000 m	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	12:57.69 TR	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	+2.02	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	+2.57
Team pursuit	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:42.03 TR	South Korea Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	+2.57	Poland Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	+3.19

Source: ISU[4]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	75.347 TR	Wang Beixing  China	+0.70	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	+0.75
1000 m	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	1:15.44 TR	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	+0.27	Brittany Bowe  United States	+0.43
1500 m	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:55.38 TR	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	+2.64	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	+2.69
3000 m	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:02.43 TR	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	+2.37	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	+5.32
5000 m	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:54.31 TR	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	+8.65	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	+9.76
Team pursuit	Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg Ireen Wüst	3:00.02 TR	Poland Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska	+4.89	South Korea Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong Park Do-yeong	+5.30

Source: ISU[4]

Medal table

The gold medal

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	6	5	2	13
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
3	Russia (RUS)	2	0	3	5
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
5	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	1	2	3
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
8	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	0	2	2
11	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		12	12	12	36

References

1. https://www.isu.org/inside-speed-skating/other-ss/news-ss/10407-essent-isu-world-single-distances-speed-skating-championships-2013-preview?templateParam=15
2. "Essent ISU WK Afstanden 2013". schaatsen.nl. Archived from the original on 2013-03-23. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
3. "Announcement (Event Calendar)". ISU.org. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
4. "ISU Results". ISU. Retrieved 22 March 2013.