1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

World Allround Speed Skating Championships
VenueM-Wave, Nagano
Dates14–16 February
Competitors36 (M), 30 (W) from 23 nations
Medalist men
Ids Postma NED
Keiji Shirahata JPN
Frank Dittrich GER
Medalist women
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann GER
Claudia Pechstein GER
Tonny de Jong NED

The 1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 14–16 February 1997 in the M-Wave stadium in Nagano, Japan.

Title defenders were the 1996 world champions Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Rintje Ritsma from the Netherlands.

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Ids Postma from the Netherlands became world champions.

Allround results

Men

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 5000 m 1500 m 10000 m
Ids Postma  Netherlands 157.906 37.36 (2) 6:49.09 (8) 1:51.78 (1) 14:07.54 (4)
Keiji Shirahata  Japan 158.466 37.59 (3) 6:47.46 (3) 1:53.20 (6) 14:07.95 (5)
Frank Dittrich  Germany 158.697 38.87 (19) 6:43.74 (2) 1:54.10 (9) 13:48.40 (2)
4 K. C. Boutiette  United States 158.739 37.93 (7) 6:48.62 (5) 1:52.53 (2) 14:08.75 (6)
5 Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands 159.090 37.99 (9) 6:48.96 (7) 1:53.12 (5) 14:09.97 (7)
6 Bart Veldkamp  Belgium 159.209 39.61 (26) 6:43.26 (1) 1:54.57 (11) 13:41.66 (1)
7 Hiroyuki Noake  Japan 160.461 37.70 (4) 6:51.32 (11) 1:53.11 (4) 14:38.53 (11)
8 Toru Aoyanagi  Japan 160.900 38.16 (12) 6:56.23 (13) 1:54.17 (10) 14:21.22 (8)
9 Neal Marshall  Canada 161.067 37.96 (8) 6:59.02 (17) 1:53.68 (7) 14:26.24 (9)
10 Dave Tamburrino  United States 161.454 38.37 (15) 6:53.35 (12) 1:55.01 (12) 14:28.27 (10)
11 Lasse Sætre  Norway 161.503 40.10 (30) 6:47.97 (4) 1:56.65 (22) 13:54.46 (3)
12 Jason Parker  Canada 163.034 38.17 (13) 7:05.64 (25) 1:52.96 (3) 14:52.95 (12)
NC13 Kevin Marshall  Canada 118.418 38.01 (10) 7:00.15 (19) 1:55.18 (14)
NC14 Falko Zandstra  Netherlands 118.621 38.06 (11) 7:01.35 (22) 1:55.28 (15)
NC15 Uwe Tonat  Germany 118.627 39.21 (14) 6:50.74 (10) 1:55.03 (13)
NC16 Anatoli Krasheninin  Russia 119.208 38.94 (21) 6:56.62 (15) 1:55.82 (18)
NC17 Marnix ten Kortenaar  Austria 119.593 39.06 (22) 6:58.87 (16) 1:55.94 (19)
NC18 Ermanno Ioriatti  Italy 120.043 37.74 (5) 7:12.20 (29) 1:57.25 (23)
NC19 Dmitry Shepel  Russia 120.063 38.64 (17) 7:09.33 (27) 1:55.47 (16)
NC20 Tim Hoffmann  United States 120.140 38.25 (14) 7:13.20 (30) 1:55.71 (17)
NC21 Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea 120.181 37.14 (1) 7:23.58 (34) 1:56.05 (20)
NC22 Roberto Sighel  Italy 120.274 38.84 (18) 7:02.68 (23) 1:57.50 (25)
NC23 Radik Bikchentayev  Kazakhstan 120.295 39.21 (24) 7:03.62 (24) 1:56.17 (21)
NC24 Jonas Schön  Sweden 120.768 39.67 (27) 7:00.15 (19) 1:57.25 (23)
NC25 Christian Breuer  Germany 121.214 39.18 (23) 7:07.38 (26) 1:57.89 (26)
NC26 Jaromir Radke  Poland 121.241 40.31 (32) 6:56.25 (14) 1:57.92 (27)
NC27 Cédric Kuentz  France 121.287 39.68 (28) 7:01.14 (21) 1:58.48 (28)
NC28 Davide Carta  Italy 121.399 37.86 (6) 7:19.99 (33) 1:58.62 (29)
NC29 Vitali Novichenko  Belarus 121.642 38.88 (20) 7:11.32 (28) 1:58.89 (30)
NC30 Kjell Storelid  Norway 121.701 40.90 (34) 6:49.45 (9) 1:59.57 (32)
NC31 Martin Feigenwinter  Switzerland 123.335 41.25 (35) 6:59.95 (18) 2:00.27 (34)
NC32 Boris Uvarov  Ukraine 123.617 40.21 (31) 7:14.84 (31) 1:59.77 (33)
NC33 Andrew Nicholson  New Zealand 124.450 39.81 (29) 7:19.57 (32) 2:02.05 (35)
NC34 Cédric Michaud  France 127.012 40.87 (33) 7:28.32 (35) 2:03.93 (36)
NC35 Paweł Zygmunt  Poland 127.853 38.50 (16) 8:15.50 (36f) 1:59.41 (31)
NC36 Vadim Sayutin  Russia 78.823 - (DQ) 6:48.63 (6) 1:53.88 (8)

bold signifies championship record.

Women

Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m
Gunda Niemann-Kleemann  Germany 165.708 WR 40.79 (2) 2:00.51 (1) 4:10.40 (1) 7:10.15 (1)
Claudia Pechstein  Germany 168.179 41.31 (9) 2:02.52 (3) 4:13.95 (2) 7:17.04 (3)
Tonny de Jong  Netherlands 168.206 41.09 (6) 2:03.08 (5) 4:15.91 (3) 7:14.39 (2)
4 Anni Friesinger  Germany 168.751 41.52 (13) 2:02.00 (2) 4:16.24 (4) 7:18.59 (4)
5 Annamarie Thomas  Netherlands 169.605 40.53 (1) 2:02.79 (4) 4:18.45 (6) 7:30.70 (9)
6 Svetlana Bazhanova  Russia 169.695 41.61 (14) 2:03.47 (6) 4:17.77 (5) 7:19.68 (6)
7 Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan 170.125 41.93 (17) 2:03.48 (7) 4:18.68 (8) 7:19.22 (5)
8 Mie Uehara  Japan 170.733 41.28 (8) 2:03.57 (8) 4:21.47 (11) 7:26.85 (7)
9 Barbara de Loor  Netherlands 171.764 41.99 (18) 2:05.24 (12) 4:18.51 (7) 7:29.43 (8)
10 Chiharu Nozaki  Japan 172.490 41.08 (5) 2:04.58 (9) 4:25.96 (18) 7:35.58 (10)
11 Becky Sundstrom  United States 173.344 40.89 (3) 2:05.66 (13) 4:26.51 (19) 7:41.50 (11)
12 Varvara Barysheva  Russia 174.087 41.75 (15) 2:05.21 (11) 4:23.51 (13) 7:46.83 (12)
NC13 Emese Hunyady  Austria 127.623 41.24 (7) 2:06.33 (16) 4:25.64 (16)
NC14 Anette Tønsberg  Norway 127.823 42.22 (19) 2:06.09 (14) 4:21.44 (10)
NC15 Mihaela Dascălu  Romania 127.999 41.38 (10) 2:07.72 (18) 4:24.28 (15)
NC16 Kirstin Holum  United States 128.009 43.05 (24) 2:05.11 (10) 4:19.54 (9)
NC17 Tatyana Trapeznikova  Russia 128.104 42.22 (19) 2:06.14 (15) 4:23.03 (12)
NC18 Moira D'Andrea  United States 128.169 41.07 (4) 2:06.50 (17) 4:29.60 (21)
NC19 Noriko Munekata  Japan 129.471 42.45 (22) 2:09.10 (20) 4:23.93 (14)
NC20 Cindy Overland  Canada 129.838 42.47 (23) 2:08.11 (19) 4:27.99 (20)
NC21 You Yanchun  China 130.299 41.42 (11) 2:09.85 (21) 4:33.58 (22)
NC22 Cerasela Hordobețiu  Romania 131.369 42.40 (21) 2:10.12 (23) 4:33.58 (22)
NC23 Elena Belci-Dal Farra  Italy 131.728 43.98 (30) 2:10.35 (24) 4:25.79 (17)
NC24 Krisztina Egyed  Hungary 132.270 41.89 (16) 2:10.11 (22) 4:42.06 (28)
NC25 Christina Schön  Sweden 132.521 43.24 (26) 2:10.91 (25) 4:33.87 (24)
NC26 Svetlana Konstantinova  Ukraine 132.863 43.43 (28) 2:11.20 (27) 4:34.20 (26)
NC27 Chiara Simionato  Italy 132.884 43.24 (26) 2:11.92 (29) 4:34.03 (25)
NC28 Ingrid Liepa  Canada 133.482 43.21 (25) 2:11.15 (26) 4:39.34 (27)
NC29 Kang Mi-yeong  South Korea 133.640 41.45 (12) 2:11.91 (28) 4:49.32 (30)
NC30 Ilonda Lūse  Latvia 136.215 43.78 (29) 2:14.16 (30) 4:46.29 (29)

bold signifies championship record.

References