Haralds Silovs became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track (1500 m) and long track (5000 m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day. He competed in the 5000 m and then raced across town to the 1500 m event. The low altitude of Vancouver and high humidity inside the Richmond Olympic Oval, set just 3 metres above the sea, contributed to the fact that no world records in speed skating were set at these Games.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	3	2	0	5
2	Netherlands (NED)	3	1	3	7
3	Canada (CAN)	2	1	2	5
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	1	3
5	Germany (GER)	1	3	0	4
6	United States (USA)	1	2	1	4
7	Japan (JPN)	0	2	1	3
8	Russia (RUS)	0	1	1	2
9	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details[7]	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	69.82	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	69.98	Joji Kato  Japan	70.01
1000 metres details[8]	Shani Davis  United States	1:08.94	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	1:09.12	Chad Hedrick  United States	1:09.32
1500 metres details[9]	Mark Tuitert  Netherlands	1:45.57	Shani Davis  United States	1:46.10	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	1:46.13
5000 metres details[10]	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:14.60 OR	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	6:16.95	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	6:18.05
10000 metres details[11]	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	12:58.55 OR	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	13:02.07	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	13:06.73
Team pursuit details[12]	Canada (CAN) Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	3:41.37	United States (USA) Brian Hansen Chad Hedrick Jonathan Kuck Trevor Marsicano*	3:41.58	Netherlands (NED) Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers* Mark Tuitert	3:39.95 OR

* Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details[13]	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	76.09	Jenny Wolf  Germany	76.14	Wang Beixing  China	76.63
1000 metres details[14]	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:16.56	Annette Gerritsen  Netherlands	1:16.58	Laurine van Riessen  Netherlands	1:16.72
1500 metres details[15]	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:56.89	Kristina Groves  Canada	1:57.14	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	1:57.96
3000 metres details[16]	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:02.53	Stephanie Beckert  Germany	4:04.62	Kristina Groves  Canada	4:04.84
5000 metres details[17]	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:50.91	Stephanie Beckert  Germany	6:51.39	Clara Hughes  Canada	6:55.73
Team pursuit details[18]	Germany (GER) Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Stephanie Beckert Anni Friesinger-Postma* Katrin Mattscherodt	3:02.82	Japan (JPN) Masako Hozumi Nao Kodaira Maki Tabata	3:02.84	Poland (POL) Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	3:03.73

* Skater who did not participate in the final, but received a medal.

A total of twelve speed skating events were held at Vancouver 2010:

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

A total of 177 athletes from 24 nations participated (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).

• Qualification System
• Qualification times
• Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule v12