Speed Skating at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating pictogram
Venue	National Speed Skating Oval
Dates	5–19 February 2022
No. of events	14 (7 men, 7 women)
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Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Qualification
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
Mass start	men	women
Team pursuit	men	women
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Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in Beijing, China between 5 and 19 February 2022. It was the 24th time speed skating was held at the Winter Olympics (17th time for women).

A total of 166 quota spots (83 per gender) were distributed to the sport, a decline of 14 from the 2018 Winter Olympics. For the first time, gender equality was achieved in terms of quotas.^[1] A total of 14 events were contested, seven for men and seven for women.^[2]

Qualification

A total quota of 166 athletes was allowed to compete at the Games (maximum 83 men and 83 women).^[3] For the 2018 Winter Olympics the total quota was 180 athletes (maximum 100 men and 80 women).^[4] The maximum total number of athletes per gender per nation was 9, compared to 10 in 2018. Countries were assigned quotas based on the results of ISU Speed Skating World Cup competitions. When quota were reached, each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of three athletes per gender for all events apart from the 5000m (women), 10,000m (men) and mass start events, for which they could enter a maximum of two athletes per event.^[3]

Qualification times

The following qualification times were released on July 1, 2021, and were unchanged from 2018.^[5]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all speed skating events.^[6] With the exception of the Team pursuit events, all rounds of each event were concluded within a single session.

All times are local times.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	6	4	2	12
2	Sweden	2	0	0	2
3	Canada	1	3	1	5
	Japan	1	3	1	5
5	Norway	1	0	2	3
	United States	1	0	2	3
7	Belgium	1	0	0	1
	China*	1	0	0	1
9	South Korea	0	2	2	4
10	Italy	0	1	2	3
11	ROC	0	1	1	2
12	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Gao Tingyu  China	34.32 OR	Cha Min-kyu  South Korea	34.39	Wataru Morishige  Japan	34.49
1000 metres details	Thomas Krol  Netherlands	1:07.92	Laurent Dubreuil  Canada	1:08.32	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway	1:08.48
1500 metres details	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	1:43.21 OR	Thomas Krol  Netherlands	1:43.55	Kim Min-seok  South Korea	1:44.24
5000 metres details	Nils van der Poel  Sweden	6:08.84 OR	Patrick Roest  Netherlands	6:09.31	Hallgeir Engebråten  Norway	6:09.88
10,000 metres details	Nils van der Poel  Sweden	12:30.74 WR, OR	Patrick Roest  Netherlands	12:44.59	Davide Ghiotto  Italy	12:45.98
Mass start details	Bart Swings  Belgium	63 points	Chung Jae-won  South Korea	40 points	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	20 points
Team pursuit details	Norway Hallgeir Engebråten Peder Kongshaug Sverre Lunde Pedersen	3:38.08	ROC Daniil Aldoshkin Sergey Trofimov Ruslan Zakharov	3:40.46	United States Casey Dawson Emery Lehman Joey Mantia Ethan Cepuran[a]	3:38.81

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Erin Jackson  United States	37.04	Miho Takagi  Japan	37.12	Angelina Golikova  ROC	37.21
1000 metres details	Miho Takagi  Japan	1:13.19 OR	Jutta Leerdam  Netherlands	1:13.83	Brittany Bowe  United States	1:14.61
1500 metres details	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:53.28 OR	Miho Takagi  Japan	1:53.72	Antoinette de Jong  Netherlands	1:54.82
3000 metres details	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	3:56.93 OR	Francesca Lollobrigida  Italy	3:58.06	Isabelle Weidemann  Canada	3:58.64
5000 metres details	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	6:43.51 OR	Isabelle Weidemann  Canada	6:48.18	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:50.09
Mass start details	Irene Schouten  Netherlands	60 points	Ivanie Blondin  Canada	40 points	Francesca Lollobrigida  Italy	20 points
Team pursuit details	Canada Ivanie Blondin Valérie Maltais Isabelle Weidemann	2:53.44 OR	Japan Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	3:04.47	Netherlands Marijke Groenewoud Irene Schouten Ireen Wüst Antoinette de Jong[a]	2:56.86

^a Skaters who did not participate in the final of the team pursuit event, but received medals as part of the team, having taken part in an earlier round.

Participating nations

27 nations sent speed skaters to compete in the speed skating events.

Records

Olympic records

Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Women's 3000 metres	5 February	Pair 10	Irene Schouten	Netherlands	3:56.93	OR	[7]
Men's 5000 metres	6 February	Pair 5	Patrick Roest	Netherlands	6:09.31	OR	[8]
Men's 5000 metres	6 February	Pair 10	Nils van der Poel	Sweden	6:08.84	OR	[9]
Women's 1500 metres	7 February	Pair 12	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1:53.28	OR	[10]
Men's 1500 metres	8 February	Pair 11	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1:43.21	OR	[11]
Women's 5000 metres	10 February	Pair 6	Irene Schouten	Netherlands	6:43.51	OR	[12]
Men's 10,000 metres	11 February	Pair 5	Nils van der Poel	Sweden	12:30.74	WR, OR	[13]
Men's 500 metres	12 February	Pair 7	Gao Tingyu	China	34.32	OR	[14]
Women's team pursuit	12 February	Quarterfinal 1	Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nana Takagi	Japan	2:53.61	OR	[15]
Men's team pursuit	15 February	Semifinal 2	Daniil Aldoshkin Sergey Trofimov Ruslan Zakharov	ROC	3:36.62	OR	[16]
Women's team pursuit	15 February	Final A	Ivanie Blondin Valérie Maltais Isabelle Weidemann	Canada	2:53.44	OR	[17]
Women's 1000 metres	17 February	Pair 13	Miho Takagi	Japan	1:13.19	OR	[18]

Controversy

In the men's 500 metres event, a false start was called in the last two heats, one of which included current World Cup champion Laurent Dubreuil. This was questioned by 1992 Winter Olympics Champion Bart Veldkamp.^[19]