Speed skating
Salt Lake 2002 featured the fastest ice in the world for the speed skating competitions — a surface made harder, denser and slicker by Utah’s desert environment. Before the Games, experts predicted that records would fall, and fall they did. From Holland’s Jochem Uytdehaage to Germany’s Anni Friesigner, athletes shattered eight out of 10 records at the Utah Olympic Oval.
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Men’s 500m
G: Casey FritzRandolph, USA
S: Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japan
B: Kip Carpenter, USA
Men’s 1000m
G: Gerard Van Velde, Netherlands
S: Jan Bos, Netherlands
B: Joey Cheek, USA
Men’s 1500m
G: Derek Parra, USA
S: JochemUytdehaage, Netherlands
B: AdneSondral, Norway
Men’s 5000m
G: JochemUytdehaage, Netherlands
S: Derek Parra, USA
B: Jens Boden, Germany
Men’s 10,000m
G: JochemUytdehaage, Netherlands
S: Gianni Romme, Netherlands
B: LasseSaetre, Norway
Women’s 500m
G: Catriona Lemay Doan, Canada
S: Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt, Germany
B: Sabine Boelker, Germany
Women’s 1000m
G: Chris Witty, USA
S: Jennifer Rodriguez, USA
B: Sabine Voelker, Germany
Women’s 1500m
G: AnniFriesinger, Germany
S: Sabine Voelker, Germany
B: Jennifer Rodriguez, USA
Women’s 3000m
G: Claudia Pechstein, Germany
S: Jennifer Rodriguez, USA
B: Cindy Klassen, Canada
Women’s 5000m
G: Claudia Pechstein, Germany
S: GrethaSmit, Netherlands
B: Clara Hughes, Canada