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Sports > Olympics > Winter Olympics Through The Years > Event-by-Event > Speed Skating

Women's Olympic Speed Skating

Multiple gold medals: Lydia Skoblikova (6); Bonnie Blair (5); Claudia Pechstein (4); Karin Enke, Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann and Yvonne van Gennip (3); Tatiana Averina, Catriona Lemay-Doan, Christa Rothenburger and Marianne Timmer (2).

500 meters

Year		Time
1960	Helga Haase, GER	45.9
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, USSR	45.0	OR
1968	Lyudmila Titova, USSR	46.1
1972	Anne Henning, USA	43.33	OR
1976	Sheila Young, USA	42.76	OR
1980	Karin Enke, E. Ger	41.78	OR
1984	Christa Rothenburger, E. Ger	41.02	OR
1988	Bonnie Blair, USA	39.10	WR
1992	Bonnie Blair, USA	40.33
1994	Bonnie Blair, USA	39.25
1998	Catriona Lemay-Doan, CAN	76.60*	OR
2002	Catriona Lemay-Doan, CAN	74.75	OR
2006	Svetlana Zhurova, RUS	76.57

*The two-race final was introduced; skater with the lowest combined time wins gold.

1000 meters

Year		Time
1960	Klara Guseva, USSR	1:34.1
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, USSR	1:33.2	OR
1968	Carolina Geijssen, NED	1:32.6	OR
1972	Monika Pflug, W. Ger	1:31.40	OR
1976	Tatiana Averina, USSR	1:28.43	OR
1980	Natalia Petruseva, USSR	1:24.10	OR
1984	Karin Enke, E. Ger	1:21.61	OR
1988	Christa Rothenburger, E. Ger	1:17.65	WR
1992	Bonnie Blair, USA	1:21.90
1994	Bonnie Blair, USA	1:18.74
1998	Marianne Timmer, NED	1:16.51	OR
2002	Chris Witty, USA	1:13.83	WR
2006	Marianne Timmer, NED	1:16.05

1500 meters

Year		Time
1960	Lydia Skoblikova, USSR	2:25.2	WR
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, USSR	2:22.6	OR
1968	Kaija Mustonen, FIN	2:22.4	OR
1972	Dianne Holum, USA	2:20.85	OR
1976	Galina Stepanskaya, USSR	2:16.58	OR
1980	Annie Borckink, NED	2:10.95	OR
1984	Karin Enke, E. Ger	2:03.42	WR
1988	Yvonne van Gennip, NED	2:00.68	OR
1992	Jacqueline Börner, GER	2:05.87
1994	Emese Hunyady, AUT	2:02.19
1998	Marianne Timmer, NED	1:57.58	WR
2002	Anni Friesinger, GER	1:54.02	WR
2006	Cindy Klassen, CAN	1:55.27

3000 meters

Year		Time
1960	Lydia Skoblikova, USSR	5:14.3
1964	Lydia Skoblikova, USSR	5:14.9
1968	Johanna Schut, NED	4:56.2	OR
1972	Christina Baas-Kaiser, NED	4:52.14	OR
1976	Tatiana Averina, USSR	4:45.19	OR
1980	Bjorg Eva Jensen, NOR	4:32.13	OR
1984	Andrea Schöne, E. Ger	4:24.79	OR
1988	Yvonne van Gennip, NED	4:11.94	WR
1992	Gunda Niemann, GER	4:19.90
1994	Svetlana Bazhanova, RUS	4:17.43
1998	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, GER	4:07.29	OR
2002	Claudia Pechstein, GER	3:57.70	WR
2006	Ireen Wust, NED	4:02.43

5000 meters

Year		Time
1960-84 Not held
1988	Yvonne van Gennip, NED	7:14.13	WR
1992	Gunda Niemann, GER	7:31.57
1994	Claudia Pechstein, GER	7:14.37
1998	Claudia Pechstein, GER	6:59.61	WR
2002	Claudia Pechstein, GER	6:46.91	WR
2006	Clara Hughes, CAN	6:59.07

Team Pursuit

Year		Time
2006	Germany	3:01.25

Men's Olympic Speed Skating

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