American

• KC Boutiette
  KC Boutiette
  KC Boutiette is an American speed skater from Tacoma, Washington and four-time Olympian.He was first of the wave of inline speed skaters who made the transition from inline to ice in order to have a shot at going to the Olympics.Among American speed skaters, Boutiette's story is half legendary...
  
  
• Kip Carpenter
  Kip Carpenter
  Kip Carpenter is an American speedskater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, as well as the 2006 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 500 meter race at the 2002 games, while also skating the fastest lap in Olympic history in the 500 meter race with a time of 24.87 for a 400 meter...
  
  
• Joey Cheek
  Joey Cheek
  +William Joseph Cheek is an American speed skater and former inline speed skater...
  
  
• Shani Davis
  Shani Davis
  Shani Davis is an Olympic Champion speed skater from the United States.At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Davis became the first Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual sport at the Olympic Winter Games . He also won the silver in the 1,500 m...
  
  
• John Farrell
  John Farrell (speed skating)
  John O'Neil Farrell was an American speed skater and speed skating coach.John Farrell participated in the 1928 Winter Olympics of St. Moritz. On the 500 m, he skated in the first pair and promptly set a new Olympic record with a time of 43.6 seconds, breaking Charles Jewtraw's old record of...
  
  
• Casey FitzRandolph
  Casey FitzRandolph
  Casey J. FitzRandolph is an American speedskater.In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar. He won another bronze medal in 2001 at the World Single Distance Championships on the 500 m.His best year so far was 2002...
  
  
• Eric Flaim
  Eric Flaim
  Eric Joseph Flaim is a former US speed skater.-Biography:Eric Flaim began skating at the age of 5 on the tiny pond next to his home on Fairwood Drive, Pembroke...
  
  
• Tucker Fredricks
  Tucker Fredricks
  Tucker Fredricks is an American speed skater who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics.Tucker is a 2002 graduate of Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville. He began skating in 1994 when a friend of his father's took him skating in lieu of playing hockey...
  
  
• David Cruikshank
• Chad Hedrick
  Chad Hedrick
  Chad Hedrick is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push or DP...
  
  
• Eric Heiden
  Eric Heiden
  Eric Arthur Heiden, M.D. is an American former long track speed skater and road cyclist who won all the men's speed skating races, and thus an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York,...
  
  
• Ken Henry
• Irving Jaffee
  Irving Jaffee
  Irving Warren Jaffee was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there along with his compatriot Jack Shea.-Early life:Jaffee, who was Jewish, was born to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Russia in 1896...
  
  
• Dan Jansen
  Dan Jansen
  Daniel Erwin Jansen is a former speed skater, best known for winning a gold medal in his final Olympic race after suffering through years of heartbreak. He graduated from West Allis Central High School....
  
  
• Charles Jewtraw
  Charles Jewtraw
  Charles Jewtraw was an American speed skater, best known for being first recipient of a gold medal at the first Winter Olympics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Terry McDermott
  Terry McDermott (speed skating)
  Richard Terrance "Terry" McDermott is a former speed skater from the United States.He was born in Essexville, Michigan....
  
  
• Peter Mueller
  Peter Mueller (skater)
  Peter Alan Mueller is a former speed skater and currently a speed skating coach....
  
  
• Derek Parra
  Derek Parra
  Derek Parra is a Mexican-American speed skater from San Bernardino, California, who graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1988. Parra won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah....
  
  
• Tom Plant
• Jack Shea
  Jack Shea
  John Amos Shea , better known as Jack Shea or The Chief, was an American double-Gold medalist in speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics. He was the first American to win two Gold medals at one Winter Olympics edition, and was the patriarch of the first family with three generations of Winter...
  
  
• Nick Thometz
  Nick Thometz
  Keith James Thometz was an American ice speed-skater. For most of 1987 he held the World record for men's 500 meter speed skating. At the Speed Skating World Cup of 1986-1987 he won the 500 meter and 1000 meter divisions. He also won a silver medal at the 1987 World Sprint Speed Skating...
  
  
• Patrick Meek
• Trevor Marsicano
  Trevor Marsicano
  Trevor Marsicano is an American long-track speedskater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics.At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Marsicano won a silver medal for his part in the team pursuit...
  
  
• Mike Blumel
• John Loquai
• Charles Ryan Leveille
• Jonathan Kuck
  Jonathan Kuck
  Jonathan Kuck is an American speed skater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics.At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kuck won a silver medal in the team pursuit along with Brian Hansen and Chad Hedrick...
  
  
• Ryan Bedford
  Ryan Bedford
  Ryan Bedford is an American speed skater who competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics.-External links:...
  
  
• Andy Roesch
• Andrew Astalos

Australian

• Colin Coates
  Colin Coates
  Colin Victor Coates is a former ice speed skater from Australia, who represented his native country in – a record – six consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1968 in Grenoble, France....
  
  
• Colin Hickey
  Colin Hickey
  Colin Edward Hickey was an Australian speed skater. He represented Australia at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics. His seventh place in the 1956 Winter Olympics was Australia's best result until 1976....
  
  
• Danny Kah
  Danny Kah
  Danny Kah is a former ice speed skater from Australia, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada....
  
  
• Kenneth Kennedy
• Michael Richmond
  Mike Richmond (skater)
  Michael "Mike" Richmond is a former ice speed skater from Australia, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1980 in Lake Placid, United States....
  
  
• Phillip Tahmindjis
  Phillip Tahmindjis
  Phillip Tahmindjis is a former ice speed skater from Australia, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada.-Achievements:...
  
  
• Michael Everret Hearn (speed skater)

Austrian

• Roland Brunner
  Roland Brunner
  Roland Brunner is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 in Albertville, France.-References:*...
  
  
• Christian Eminger
  Christian Eminger
  Christian Eminger is a former ice speed skater from Austria. He represented Austria in three Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia....
  
  
• Michael Hadschieff
  Michael Hadschieff
  Michael Florian Hadschieff is a former speed skater from Austria.-Biography:At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Michael Hadschieff participated in all five distances , winning medals in two of those...
  
  
• Werner Jäger
  Werner Jäger
  Werner Jäger is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia-References:*...
  
  
• Heinz Steinberger
  Heinz Steinberger
  Heinz Steinberger is a former ice speed skater from Austria, who represented his native country in two Winter Olympics .-References:*...
  
  

Canadian

• Andrew Barron
  Andrew Barron (skater)
  Andrew Barron is a former ice speed skater, who represented Canada in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan. Barron is a resident of Calgary, Alberta.-References:* *...
  
  
• Gaétan Boucher
  Gaétan Boucher
  Gaétan Boucher, OC, CQ is a former Speed skating Olympic champion from Canada.A four-time Olympic medalist, Boucher was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's outstanding male athlete of 1984. He was named number 10 on the list of Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century...
  
  
• Sylvain Bouchard
  Sylvain Bouchard
  Sylvain Bouchard is a Canadian long track speed skater. He won the 1000m event at the 1998 World Single Distance Championships. He competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics, finishing 4th at the 500m event and 5th at the 1000m event. He also competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics, finishing 11th on 500m...
  
  
• Arne Dankers
  Arne Dankers
  Arne Dankers is a Canadian speed skater.Dankers was a member of the Canadian team that set the team pursuit world record of 3:39.69 in Calgary, Canada on November 12, 2005. The Canadian team, of which Dankers was a part, was not able to duplicate this performance at the 2006 Turin Olympics...
  
  
• Steven Elm
  Steven Elm
  Steven Elm is a Canadian speed skater from Calgary, Alberta.Elm has been to three Olympics, and in the 2006 Winter Olympics he won a silver medal as part of the Canadian men's pursuit team. He formerly held the world record in the 3000 m from 2000 to 2001...
  
  
• Mike Ireland
  Mike Ireland
  Michael Ireland is a long track speed skater.Mike Ireland specialises in the sprint distances...
  
  
• Patrick Kelly
  Pat Kelly (skater)
  Leonard Patrick "Pat" Kelly is a former ice speed skater from Canada, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 in Albertville, France. He now lives and skates part-time in Lake Placid, NY. On Feb 6th, 2010 he skated a 40.13 outdoors on the Olympic...
  
  
• Neal Marshall
  Neal Marshall
  Neal Gregory Marshall is a Canadian speed skater. For the 1994-1995 season he was the winner at Speed Skating World Cup's 1500 m division. In 1997, he took bronze at the World Single Distance Championships for Men in the 1,500 m division...
  
  
• Dustin Molicki
• Denny Morrison
  Denny Morrison
  Denny Morrison is a Canadian speedskater from Fort St. John, British Columbia. His best distance, so far in his career, is the 1500-m, where he held the world record time of 1:42.01 from 14 March 2008 to 6 March 2009...
  
  
• Jason Parker
  Jason Parker (speed skater)
  Jason Parker is a Canadian speed skater who won a silver medal in the Team Pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.- External links :* * *...
  
  
• Kevin Scott
  Kevin Scott (speed skater)
  John Kevin Scott is a world-record setting speed skater from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Scott became known on the Canadian and international speed skating circuits while competing in three junior world championships...
  
  
• Justin Warsylewicz
  Justin Warsylewicz
  Justin Warsylewicz is a Canadian speedskater.In February 2004, at the age of eighteen, he became Canadian All Round Champion in 2004 after winning the World Junior Championships earlier that year. His win left the talented Dutchman Sven Kramer behind him in second place...
  
  
• Jeremy Wotherspoon
  Jeremy Wotherspoon
  Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canadian speed skater, widely recognized as one of the greatest speedskating sprinters of all time....
  
  
• Jordan Belchos

Dutch

• Henk Angenent
  Henk Angenent
  Henk Angenent was a Dutch speed skater, specialising in marathon skating and the longer distances. On 12 March 2004 in Calgary, Angenent skated 41.669 km in one hour, which was the world record in this event until 15 March 2007, when Casper Helling skated 300 metres more...
  
  
• Jan Bazen
  Jan Bazen
  Cornelis Jan Bazen is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. There he finished in sixth place in the men's 500 metres, together with Norway's Arnulf Sunde.- References :*...
  
  
• Jelmer Beulenkamp
  Jelmer Beulenkamp
  Jelmer Beulenkamp is a former speed skater. He was the Dutch speed skating champion in 1998. In 2003, he switched to marathon skating.On 25 February 1998, he skated the 3,000 m in a world record time of 3:52.67 in Thialf.-References:...
  
  
• Jan Blokhuijsen
  Jan Blokhuijsen
  Jan Blokhuijsen is Dutch long track speed skater who skates for the commercial VPZ speedskating team.In 2007, he got his VWO degree at school...
  
  
• Lieuwe de Boer
  Lieuwe de Boer
  Lieuwe de Boer is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. There he won the bronze medal in the men's 500 metres....
  
  
• Jan Bols
  Jan Bols
  Jan Bols is a former Dutch long track speed skater.Bols was among the top all-rounders in the late 60s and early 70s, this period overlapped the glory days of Kees Verkerk and Ard Schenk, so that he tends to be known as the third best Dutch skater of his time.Bols participated in the 1968 and 1972...
  
  
• Jan Bos
  Jan Bos
  Jan Bos is a Dutch speedskater and sprint cyclist.In 1998 he became world champion sprint and he won the silver medal that year on the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano....
  
  
• Thomas Bos
• Kees Broekman
  Kees Broekman
  Cornelis "Kees" Broekman was a Dutch former speed skater.He was born in De Lier and died in Berlin, Germany....
  
  
• Ben van der Burg
• Hilbert van der Duim
  Hilbert van der Duim
  Hilbert van der Duim is a former speed skater. A two-time world and European champion, Van der Duim "won often but also fell often", and has become famous for some of the incidents that happened to him during his career.-Career:Hilbert van der Duim became World Allround Champion in 1980, being the...
  
  
• Jaap Eden
  Jaap Eden
  Jacobus Johannes "Jaap" Eden was a Dutch athlete. He is the only male athlete to has won world championships in both speed skating and bicycle racing .- Early life :Jaap Eden was born in Groningen to Johannes Eden and Maria Baale...
  
  
• Henk van der Grift
  Henk van der Grift
  Hendrik van der Grift is a former speed skater.Henk van der Grift participated in the 1960 Winter Olympics. On the 500 m, he finished 10th and he fell on the 1,500 m. Not satisfied with training facilities in the Netherlands, he lived in Norway for a while, working as a car mechanic...
  
  
• Stefan Groothuis
  Stefan Groothuis
  Stefan Groothuis is a Dutch speed skater who is currently part of Team Telfort.Groothuis is a specialist in the middle distances, 1000 and 1500 metres and had his international breakthrough in 2005. In that year he reached a second spot during the Speed Skating World Cup meeting in Salt Lake City...
  
  
• Hans van Helden
  Hans van Helden
  Hans van Helden is a former speed skater, originally competing for the Netherlands, later for France.-Biography:...
  
   (also competed for France)
• Martin Hersman
• Bob de Jong
  Bob de Jong
  Bob Johannes Carolus de Jong is a Dutch speed skater who specializes in long distances: five and ten kilometers.-Speed skating career:...
  
  
• Jorrit Jorritsma
• Gerard Kemkers
  Gerard Kemkers
  Gerard Kemkers is a former speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the men's 5000 metres....
  
  
• Piet Kleine
  Piet Kleine
  Pieter "Piet" Kleine is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.-Short biography:At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Piet Kleine became Olympic Champion on the 10,000 m, beating world record holder Sten Stensen – who won silver – in a close race...
  
  
• Coen de Koning
  Coen de Koning
  Coen de Koning was the second Dutch speed skating World Champion.Born in Edam, North Holland, Netherlands, he won the speed skating title in his only World Championship competition in 1905 in Groningen , Groningen , Netherlands...
  
  
• Sven Kramer
  Sven Kramer
  Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter in Vancouver 2010, and four-time European and World Allround Champion. He is also three-time world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the team pursuit...
  
  
• Yep Kramer
  Yep Kramer
  Yep Kramer is a Dutch-Frisian long track and marathon speed skater. He is the father of speed skaters Sven Kramer and Brecht Kramer....
  
  
• Harm Kuipers
  Harm Kuipers
  Harm Kuipers is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.Kuipers combined his sports careers with being a Medicine student at the University of Groningen. Preferring his studies over speed skating, he did not participate in the 1972 Winter Olympics, a decision he still regrets today...
  
  
• Simon Kuipers
  Simon Kuipers
  Simon Kuipers is a Dutch speed skater. He won a 1,500 meters World Cup competitions on 3 December 2005. It was his first World Cup victory...
  
  
• Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
  Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
  Jakko Jan Leeuwangh is a former speed skater from the Netherlands. He finished fourth in the 1998 Olympic 1,000 m event. In January 2000 he broke the 1,500m world record in Calgary, Canada, holding the record until it was broken by Lee Kyu-Hyeok in March 2001.-References:...
  
  
• Rudie Liebrechts
  Rudie Liebrechts
  Rutgerus Liebrechts is a former Dutch speed skater and racing cyclist.Liebrechts was among the best Dutch speedskaters from 1961 to 1967...
  
  
• Ronald Mulder
• Beorn Nijenhuis
  Beorn Nijenhuis
  Beorn Enriqué Nijenhuis is a Dutch speed skater, who represented the Netherlands at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
  
  
• Wouter Olde Heuvel
  Wouter Olde Heuvel
  Wouter Olde Heuvel is a Dutch long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.-Personal records:-Career highlights:World Allround Championships...
  
  
• Tom Prinsen
  Tom Prinsen
  Tom Prinsen is a Dutch long track speedskater specialised in the longer distances. In 2003 he became Dutch neo junior champion. By beating Postma, Romme and Ritsma in a skateoff, he qualified himself for the World Championship of 2004 in Hamar, Norway...
  
  
• Ids Postma
  Ids Postma
  Ids Hylke Postma is a Dutch former speed skater. He is an Olympic gold medalist and former world champion.To some it would seem that Ids Postma made his debut in 1994, but the season before he already finished 2nd at the World Championships Speedskating for Juniors...
  
  
• Rintje Ritsma
  Rintje Ritsma
  Robert Rintje Ritsma is a former Dutch long track speed skater. His nickname is the Beer van Lemmer, which translates to the Bear from Lemmer.-Speed skating career:He has won the World Allround Championships 4 times...
  
  
• Gianni Romme
  Gianni Romme
  Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Dutch marathon and a former long track speed skater. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....
  
  
• Ard Schenk
  Ard Schenk
  Adrianus "Ard" Schenk is a former speed skater from the Netherlands, who is considered to be one of the best in history. His first Olympic success came in 1968, when he won a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Between 1970 and 1972 Winter Olympics, Schenk won three consecutive World...
  
  
• Jan Smeekens
  Jan Smeekens
  Jan Smeekens is a Dutch speed skater. He is specialised in riding the 500m.Smeekens won his first international medal during the 2004 World Junior Single Distance Championships in Moscow where he won the gold medal at the 500m...
  
  
• Mark Tuitert
  Mark Tuitert
  Mark Tuitert ; born April 4, 1980 in Holten, Overijssel) is a Dutch speed skater. He won gold at the 1500m sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics.-Personal life:Tuitert married fellow Dutch speed skater Helen van Goozen in 2009...
  
  
• Jochem Uytdehaage
  Jochem Uytdehaage
  Jochem Simon Uytdehaage is a former Dutch long track speed skater and two-time Olympic champion. He retired in 2007 at the age of 30, following two consecutive seasons of poor results.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gerard van Velde
  Gerard van Velde
  Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde is a retired Dutch speedskater, and was specialised in sprinting....
  
  
• Bart Veldkamp
  Bart Veldkamp
  Bart Veldkamp is a retired speed skater, who represented both the Netherlands and Belgium in international competitions, including the Winter Olympics.-Short biography:...
  
   (also competed for Belgium)
• Hein Vergeer
  Hein Vergeer
  Henricus Coenradus Nicolaas Vergeer is a Dutch former speed skater who became both European and World Allround Champion in both 1985 and 1986 .Hein Vergeer was a dominant allround skater, but after having recovered from...
  
  
• Carl Verheijen
  Carl Verheijen
  Carl Eduard Verheijen was a Dutch speedskater specializing in the longer distances 5,000-m and the 10,000-m. Verheijen is the son of skater Eddy Verheijen and has a relation with retired skater Andrea Nuyt in Leusden. They have a daughter...
  
  
• Kees Verkerk
  Kees Verkerk
  Cornelis Arie Verkerk , better known as Kees Verkerk, is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.-Short biography:...
  
  
• Leo Visser
  Leo Visser
  Leendert Visser is s a former Dutch Speed skater, who in 1989 won the World Allround championship, the same year in which Visser also became European champion....
  
  
• Erben Wennemars
  Erben Wennemars
  Egbert Rolf Wennemars is a Dutch former speed skater. He specialized in the sprint and middle distances of 500, 1000 and 1500 meters.-Speed skating career:...
  
  
• Jan Ykema
  Jan Ykema
  Jan Jelte Ykema is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1988 he won the silver medal in the men's 500 metres...
  
  
• Falko Zandstra
  Falko Zandstra
  Falko Zandstra is a former Dutch speed skater. Because of his thin legs he was also called de Gespierde Spijker which translates to the Muscular Nail.-Biography:...
  
  

Finnish

• Janne Hänninen
  Janne Hänninen
  Janne Hänninen is a former Finnish speedskater who specialised on the shorter distances 500 m, 1000 m, and 1500 m.His personal bests on these distances are 35.00 , 1:08.45 , and 1:46.04...
  
  
• Harri Ilkka
• Juhani Järvinen
  Juhani Järvinen
  Jouko Juhani Järvinen was a Finnish speed skater, allround world champion and world record holder on 1500m.He was born in Tuulos and died in Helsinki. He was the father of Timo Järvinen....
  
  
• Timo Järvinen
• Jaana Kivipelto
• Pasi Koskela
• Pekka Koskela
  Pekka Koskela
  Pekka Koskela is a Finnish speedskater, specialising on the sprint distances 500-m and 1000-m. He is the former world record holder on the 1000-m with the time 1.07.00. In December 2001 he set a junior world record on the 500-m with the time 35.89...
  
  
• Kimmo Koskinen
• Johanna Laine
• Jouko Launonen
• Pertti Niittylä
  Pertti Niittylä
  Pertti Ilmari Niittylä is a former ice speed skater from Finland, who was the nation's leading rider in the 1970s and 1980s. He represented his native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria....
  
  
• Urpo Pikkupeura
  Urpo Pikkupeura
  Urpo Paavo Pikkupeura, a.k.a. Upi, is a former ice speed skater from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Currently he is a sports teacher in a Finnish mid-school in Kerava.-References:*...
  
  
• Mika Poutala
  Mika Poutala
  Mika Poutala is a Finnish speed skater who held a Finnish record in the sport. He finished 22nd at Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres. He has a business education and is set to represent Finland at the 2010 Winter Olympics.- References :...
  
  
• Esa Puolakka
• Marja Repola
• Risto Rosendahl
• Vesa Rosendahl
• Jukka Salmela
  Jukka Salmela
  Jukka Arto Olavi Salmela is a former Finnish speedskater who specialised on the shorter distances 500-m and 1000-m. He took part in the 1980 Winter Olympics on these distances, with an 18th rank on the 500-m as his best result, and was ranked 12th in the 1981 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships...
  
  
• Toivo Salonen
  Toivo Salonen
  Toivo Kostia Salonen is a former speed skater from Finland. He was born in Pälkäne.Toivo Salonen had most of his successes on a national level, becoming Finnish Allround Champion in 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, winning Finnish silver in 1953, 1955, and 1962, and taking bronze in 1963 and 1964...
  
  
• Julius Skutnabb
  Julius Skutnabb
  Julius Ferninand Skutnabb was a Finnish speed skater who won several Olympic medals. He was born in Helsinki and died there as well....
  
  
• Clas Thunberg
  Clas Thunberg
  Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz...
  
  
• Jarmo Valtonen
  Jarmo Valtonen
  Jarmo Valtonen is a Finnish long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.-Personal records:-Career highlights:European Allround Championships...
  
  
• Jouko Vesterlund
  Jouko Vesterlund
  Jouko Valdemar Vesterlund is a former speed skater from Finland, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.-References:*...
  
  

French

• Alexis Contin
  Alexis Contin
  Alexis Contin is a French speed skater. He is ranked 63 on the Adelskalender and is coached by Jan ven Veen.Contin made his international speedskating debut at the Speed Skating World Cup in December 2005...
  
  
• Jean-Noël Fagot
  Jean-Noël Fagot
  Jean-Noël Fagot is a former ice speed skater from France, who represented his native country at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.-References:*...
  
  
• Hans van Helden
  Hans van Helden
  Hans van Helden is a former speed skater, originally competing for the Netherlands, later for France.-Biography:...
  
   (also competed for the Netherlands)
• Thierry Lamberton
  Thierry Lamberton
  Thierry Dominique Lamberton is a former ice speed skater from France, who represented his native country at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.-References:*...
  
  
• Emmanuel Michon
  Emmanuel Michon
  Emmanuel Michon is a former ice speed skater from France, who represented his native country at two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria....
  
  
• Claude Nicouleau

German

• Jens Boden
  Jens Boden
  Jens Boden is a German speed skater, who won the bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-External links:*...
  
  
• Frank Dittrich (also competed for DDR)
• Uwe-Jens Mey
  Uwe-Jens Mey
  Uwe-Jens Mey is a former speed skater, considered to be the fastest sprinter of his time because of his 500 metres supremacy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was born in Warsaw, Poland....
  
   (also competed for DDR)
• Olaf Zinke
  Olaf Zinke
  Olaf Zinke is a former speed skater.Olaf Zinke specialised in the 1,000 metres and 1,500 metres distances...
  
   (also competed for DDR)

DDR (East German)

• Andreas Ehrig
• André Hoffmann
• Uwe-Jens Mey
  Uwe-Jens Mey
  Uwe-Jens Mey is a former speed skater, considered to be the fastest sprinter of his time because of his 500 metres supremacy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was born in Warsaw, Poland....
  
  

Japanese

• Toru Aoyanagi
  Toru Aoyanagi
  is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1988 in Calgary, Canada.-References:*...
  
  
• Manabu Horii
  Manabu Horii
  is a speed skater. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1994, and also competed in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics.-References:...
  
  
• Junichi Inoue
  Junichi Inoue
  is a Japanese speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics.He was born in Arakawa, Saitama.In 1992 he won the bronze medal in the 500 metres event....
  
  
• Joji Kato
  Joji Kato
  is a Japanese speedskater specialised in the sprinting distance 500 metres. At the age of 17 he became the first junior speedskater to skate the 500 metres below 35 seconds....
  
  
• Yoshihiro Kitazawa
  Yoshihiro Kitazawa
  is a Japanese speed skater who competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics.He was born in Kushiro, Hokkaidō.In 1984 he won the silver medal in the 500 metres event. In the 1000 metres competition he finished 31st.-External links:*...
  
  
• Akira Kuroiwa
  Akira Kuroiwa
  is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country at two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. In 1988, he won the bronze medal in the men's 500 metres, after having captured two world titles at the Sprints Championships...
  
  
• Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
  Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
  is a former ice speed skater from Japan, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics in 1992, 1994 and 1998. At Albertville, France in 1992, he won the silver medal in the men's 500 metres.-References:*...
  
  
• Yukihiro Mitani
• Yasunori Miyabe
• Yukinori Miyabe
  Yukinori Miyabe
  is a Japanese speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics.He is the younger brother of Yasunori Miyabe.In 1992 he won the bronze medal in the 1000 metres event...
  
  
• Hiroyuki Noake
• Keiji Shirahata
• Hiroyasu Shimizu
  Hiroyasu Shimizu
  Hiroyasu Shimizu is a Japanese speed skater. He has an Olympic Gold medal from 1998 in the 500m and his win made him a hero in his home country. He currently holds the world record for the 100m speed skating event in 9.43 seconds...
  
  
• Keiichi Suzuki

ROK (South Korean)

• Lee Kang-Seok
  Lee Kang-Seok
  Lee Kang-Seok is a speed skater from South Korea. He is the 2007 and 2009 World Champion for 500m. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the 500 m...
  
  
• Lee Kyu Hyuk
• Mo Tae-Bum
  Mo Tae-Bum
  Mo Tae-Bum is a South Korean speed skater. He started speedskating while in the third grade. Prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics, Mo won two distances at the 2006 World Junior Speed Skating Championships...
  
  
• Lee Seung Hoon

Italian

• Enrico Fabris
  Enrico Fabris
  Enrico Fabris is a former Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. In 2007 he won also the silver medal an in 2008 the...
  
  
• Dino Gillarduzzi
• Ermanno Ioriatti
• Maurizio Marchetto
  Maurizio Marchetto
  Maurizio Marchetto is a former ice speed skater from Italy, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria....
  
  
• Giorgio Paganin
• Ippolito Sanfratello
  Ippolito Sanfratello
  Ippolito Sanfratello is an ice speed skater from Italy, who won the gold medal in the Team Pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He placed 18th in the 1500m, 14th in the 5000m and 12th in the 10000m....
  
  
• Roberto Sighel
  Roberto Sighel
  Roberto Sighel is a former Italian speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions.His skating career was unusually long, competing at top international level from 1988 to 2002...
  
  

Norwegian

• Nils Aaness
  Nils Aaness
  Nils Egil Aaness is a former speed skater from Norway.Aaness competed on the Norwegian national team from 1959 to 1965, and thus became part of the Norwegian speedskating revolution under the trainer Stein Johnson...
  
  
• Roald Aas
  Roald Aas
  Roald Edgar Aas is a former speed skater and cyclist from Norway.Roald Aas was the number two speed skater in Norway through the entire 1950s – initially after Hjalmar Andersen, later after Knut Johannesen...
  
  
• Hjalmar Andersen
  Hjalmar Andersen
  Hjalmar "Hjallis" Johan Andersen is a former speed skater from Norway who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games of Oslo, Norway. He was the only triple gold medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics, and as such, became the most successful athlete there.-Short biography:Hjalmar...
  
  
• Petter Andersen
  Petter Andersen
  Petter Andersen is a Norwegian speed skater, born in Oslo. He competed in the 1,000 m and 1,500 m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.-References:...
  
  
• Terje Andersen
  Terje Andersen
  Terje Andersen is a former speed skater and president of the Norwegian Skating Association. Andersen was a typical middle distance skater, his best achievement being one bronze medal from the 1980 Winter Olympics of Lake Placid....
  
  
• Ivar Ballangrud
  Ivar Ballangrud
  Ivar Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in Speed Skating. As the only triple gold medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful athlete there.-Biography:Ivar Ballangrud was one of the best speed skaters in the world for a period of 15...
  
  
• Håvard Bøkko
  Håvard Bøkko
  Håvard Bøkko is a Norwegian speedskater, widely considered to be one of the most promising talents for many years, with junior results similar to those of Sven Kramer, Gianni Romme and Eric Heiden. He is the older brother of Hege Bøkko.-Speed skating career:In 2006, Bøkko was the Junior World...
  
  
• Thomas Byberg
  Thomas Byberg
  Thomas Hedvin Byberg was a Norwegian speed skater. He represented Hommelvik Idrettslag and Trondhjems Skøiteklub.He was born in Hommelvik....
  
  
• Armand Carlsen
  Armand Carlsen
  Armand Henning Carlsen was a Norwegian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.In 1928 he finished fifth in the 5000 metres event. He also started in the abandoned 10000 metres competition. He held the world record in the 10,000 metres distance between 1928 and 1939, clocking in...
  
  
• Jørn Didriksen
  Jørn Didriksen
  Jørn Didriksen is a former speed skater from Norway.Representing Oslo Idrettslag, Didriksen specialised in the sprint and participated in the World Sprint Championships three times. His best result there was a fourth place in 1975. That same year, he also became Norwegian Sprint Champion...
  
  
• Lasse Efskind
  Lasse Efskind
  Lasse Daniel Efskind is a Norwegian medical doctor, primarily known for his speedskating career and his books. He is the son of Leif Efskind , professor of medicine at the University of Oslo and a pioneer in the field of heart operations.Efskind burst onto the international speedskating scene...
  
  
• Kai Arne Engelstad
  Kai Arne Engelstad
  Kai Arne Engelstad is a former speed skater from Norway.Engelstad specialised on the sprint, with his strongest distance being the 1,000 m...
  
  
• Ivar Eriksen
  Ivar Eriksen
  Alf Ivar Eriksen is a former speed skater from Norway. He was born in Hamar.Eriksen won a silver medal on 1500 m, shared with Ard Schenk, at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble; at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck he came on sixth place on the same distance...
  
  
• Eskil Ervik
  Eskil Ervik
  Eskil Ervik is a Norwegian speedskater. Ervik's best distance is traditionally the 5000-m, where he for several years was among the very best of the world, but his top priority for the most part of his career was to perform optimally in the allround championships...
  
  
• Bernt Evensen
  Bernt Evensen
  Bernt Sverre Evensen was a Norwegian speed skater and racing cyclist.At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Bernt Evensen became the first Norwegian skater to win an Olympic gold medal by winning gold on the 500 m Bernt Sverre Evensen (8 April 1905 in Kristiania (Oslo) – 24 August 1979)...
  
  
• Rolf Falk-Larssen
  Rolf Falk-Larssen
  Rolf Falk-Larssen is a former speed skater.Representing Trondhjems Skøiteklub, Rolf Falk-Larssen made his international debut at the European Allround Championships of 1982 and he was in the lead after three distances. On the final distance , he was paired against Tomas Gustafson, the number two...
  
  
• Sverre Farstad
  Sverre Farstad
  Sverre Farstad was a speed skater representing Sportsklubben Falken, Trondheim, as part of the Falken Trio also including Henry Wahl and Hjalmar Andersen. Farstad won one Olympic gold medal and one European Championship in his three-year international career.He was born in Lademoen, Trondheim.-Pre...
  
  
• Dag Fornæss
  Dag Fornæss
  Dag Fornæss is a former speed skater from Norway who won the Norwegian, European, and World Allround Championships in 1969. He was born in Hamar.-Biography:...
  
  
• Alv Gjestvang
  Alv Gjestvang
  Alv Gjestvang is a Norwegian former speed skater and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, and a silver medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck....
  
  
• Øystein Grødum
  Øystein Grødum
  Øystein Grødum is a Norwegian speedskater, who is a member of Arendal SK. Grødum competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics for Norway, with fourth place on 10,000 metres as his best place, and won the World Cup on long distances in 2004–05...
  
  
• Roar Grønvold
  Roar Grønvold
  Roar Grønvold is a former speed skater from Norway.Grønvold had his best year in 1972 when he became Norwegian Allround Champion and won silver at the Norwegian Sprint Championships...
  
  
• Rudolf Gundersen
  Rudolf Gundersen
  Rudolf Gundersen was a Norwegian speed skater. He represented Kristiania Skøiteklub and was among the world's best skaters around the start of the 20th century....
  
  
• Per Willy Guttormsen
  Per Willy Guttormsen
  Per Willy Guttormsen is a former Norwegian speed skater. He was among the world's best long distance skaters in the 1960s.Guttormsen's international breakthrough was his 6th place in the 1964 World Speed Skating Championships, at age 21. That year he was just outside the Norwegian three-man quota...
  
  
• Villy Haugen
  Villy Haugen
  Villy Haugen is a former speed skater from Norway.Haugen earned a bronze medal on 1500 m at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. He came on eighth place on 500 m at the same Olympics. Haugen represented SK Falken in Trondheim.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sverre Ingolf Haugli
  Sverre Ingolf Haugli
  Sverre Ingolf Haugli was a Norwegian speed skater. He represented Jevnaker Idrettsforening, Gjøvik Skøiteklub, and Oslo Skøiteklub....
  
  
• Finn Helgesen
  Finn Helgesen
  Finn Helgesen was a speed skater from Norway. He was born in Drammen, Buskerud.At the Norwegian Championships, Helgesen won the 500 m in 1947 and 1949. He became Olympic Champion on the 500 m at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St...
  
  
• Knut Johannesen
  Knut Johannesen
  Knut Johannesen is a former speed skater from Norway.-Biography:Born in Oslo and representing the skating club ASK there, Johannesen won the World Allround Championships in 1957 and 1964, the European Allround Championships in 1959 and 1960, and won the Norwegian...
  
  
• Arne Johansen
  Arne Johansen
  Arne Johansen is an Norwegian former speed skater and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, shared with Gordon Audley from Canada.-References:...
  
  
• Geir Karlstad
  Geir Karlstad
  Geir Karlstad is a former speed skater.-Short biography:Although best at the longest distances , Geir Karlstad became Junior World Allround Champion in 1982 and, as a senior, won bronze in both the World and European Allround Championships in 1989...
  
  
• Johann Olav Koss
  Johann Olav Koss
  Johann Olav Koss is a former speed skater from Norway, considered to be one of the best in history, and current assistant coach of Norway's speed skating team.-Biography:...
  
  
• Roald Larsen
  Roald Larsen
  Roald Morel Larsen was a World Champion speed skater from Norway. He was born in Kristiania ....
  
  
• Reidar Liaklev
  Reidar Liaklev
  Reidar Liaklev was a speed skater from Norway who won the gold medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics of St. Moritz...
  
  
• Odd Lundberg
  Odd Lundberg
  Odd Lundberg was a speed skater from Norway.Lundberg became World Allround Champion in Helsinki in 1948, finished third in Oslo in 1949, and second in Eskilstuna in 1950. He also won a competition in Bislett, Oslo in 1946, which was announced as unofficial World Championships. At the 1948 Winter...
  
  
• Fred Anton Maier
  Fred Anton Maier
  Fred Anton Maier is a former speed skater from Norway. He was among the dominating skaters throughout the 1960s, specalising in the longer distances....
  
  
• Charles Mathiesen
  Charles Mathiesen
  Charles Mathiesen was a speed skater whose speed skating career lasted for 18 years , while being at the world top during most of those years.-Biography:Mathiesen was born in Drammen, Norway...
  
  
• Oscar Mathisen
  Oscar Mathisen
  Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation...
  
  
• Per Ivar Moe
  Per Ivar Moe
  Per Ivar Moe is a former speed skater from Norway.-Biography:In 1963, 18 year old Per Ivar Moe won bronze at the European Allround Championships, an achievement he would repeat the following year . In addition, in 1964, he became the first in 8 years to beat Knut Johannesen at the Norwegian...
  
  
• Alfred Ingvald Næss
• Peder Østlund
  Peder Østlund
  Peder Østlund was a Norwegian speed skater.Peder Østlund held the first position on the Adelskalender ranking during two periods, for a total of almost 10 years . He became World Allround Champion in 1898 and 1899, and became European Allround Champion in 1899 and 1900...
  
  
• Tom Erik Oxholm
  Tom Erik Oxholm
  Tom Erik Oxholm is a former speed skater from Norway. He had his best period in the early 1980s.At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, Oxholm won two bronze medals – on the 5,000 m and the 10,000 m...
  
  
• Frode Rønning
  Frode Rønning
  Frode Rønning is a former speed skater and coach from Norway.During many speed skating seasons, Rønning was the world's best sprinter. Rønning participated in the 13 sprint world championships between 1977 and 1989, he became champion in 1981, and won silver in 1978 and bronze in 1979 and 1982...
  
  
• Lasse Sætre
  Lasse Sætre
  Lasse Sætre is a former speed skater from Norway, who for several years was among the world's best long distance skaters. Sætre who grew up in Nord-Odal competed in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Olympics, and won a 10,000-m bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics. He won another 10,000-m bronze in the 2003...
  
  
• Amund Sjøbrend
  Amund Sjøbrend
  Amund Martin Sjøbrend is a former ice speed skater from Norway.Together with Sten Stensen, Kay Stenshjemmet, and Jan Egil Storholt, Amund Sjøbrend was one of the legendary four S-es , four Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s...
  
  
• Ådne Søndrål
  Ådne Søndrål
  Ådne Søndrål is a former Norwegian speed skater.Søndrål, representing Hol IL, was one of the best 1500 m skaters through most of the 1990s. He placed 2nd in the 1992 Winter Olympics and 4th in the 1994 Olympics. He finally won Olympic gold when he won 1500 m in the 1998 Winter Olympics...
  
  
• Michael Staksrud
  Michael Staksrud
  Michael Staksrud was a Norwegian World Champion in speed skating.-Biography:Born in Gran, in the district of Hadeland, Staksrud started his speed skating career at Hamar Idrettslag . From 1937 onward, he represented Oslo Skøiteklub...
  
  
• Sten Stensen
  Sten Stensen
  Sten Einar Stensen is a former speed skater.-Short biography:Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Kay Stenshjemmet, and Jan Egil Storholt, Sten Stensen was one of the legendary four S-es , contemporary Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s...
  
  
• Kay Arne Stenshjemmet
• Rune Stordal
  Rune Stordal
  Rune Stordal is a Norwegian speed skater.He won the 1500 m at the 2005 World Single Distance Championships....
  
  
• Kjell Storelid
  Kjell Storelid
  Kjell Storelid is a former speed skater from Norway. Storelid's best achievement on the ice was two silver medals on 5,000 m and 10,000 m at the Winter Olympics 1994 in Lillehammer - behind Johann Olav Koss. In the two next Olympic games Storelid came 5th and 8th on 10,000 m...
  
  
• Jan Egil Storholt
  Jan Egil Storholt
  Jan Egil Storholt is a former speed skater from Norway. He was born in Trondheim.-Biography:Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Sten Stensen, and Kay Stenshjemmet, Jan Egil Storholt was one of the legendary four S-es , four Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s.Storholt was born in...
  
  
• Harald Strøm
  Harald Strøm
  Harald Strøm was a Norwegian speed skater, world champion, European champion and world record holder on 5000 metres...
  
  
• Kristian Strøm
  Kristian Strøm
  Kristian Strøm was a Norwegian speedskater.He set a world record in 5000 m in 1917, when he improved Oscar Mathisen's previous record in Trondheim...
  
  
• Roger Strøm
  Roger Strøm
  Roger Strøm is a Norwegian speed skater.Strøm was Norway's best speed skating sprinter during the 1990s. His best seasons were from 1994 to 1997. During the 1994 Olympics he finished 7th over 1000 metres, but failed to qualify in the 500 m...
  
  
• Arnulf Sunde
  Arnulf Sunde
  Arnulf Sunde is a former speed skater from Norway, who represented his native country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. There he finished in sixth place in the men's 500 metres, together with Holland's Jan Bazen....
  
  
• Magne Thomassen
  Magne Thomassen
  Magne Thomassen is a former speed skater from Norway. He participated in international championships over a period of more than ten years...
  
  
• Erik Vea
  Erik Vea
  Erik Vea is a Norwegian speedskater.In 1973, Erik Vea competed for Norway in both the European and World Championships, and finished in 13th and 10th places respectively....
  
  
• Even Wetten
  Even Wetten
  Even Gabrielsen Wetten is a Norwegian speed skater. He became World Champion on 1,000 metres in 2005 in Inzell.-References:**...
  
  

Russian

• Andrey Bakhvalov (also competed for Soviet Union)
• Dmitry Dorofeyev
• Aleksandr Golubev (also competed for Soviet Union)
• Dmitry Lobkov
  Dmitry Lobkov
  Dmitry Lobkov is a Russian speedskater who specialises in the shortest distances, with the 500 metres being his favourite. At the 2004 World Single Distance Championships in Seoul he achieved the silver medal at this distance, only allowing Jeremy Wotherspoon to be faster...
  
  
• Anatoly Medennikov
• Dmitry Shepel
• Ivan Skobrev
  Ivan Skobrev
  Ivan Aleksandrovich Skobrev is a Russian speed skater. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he won the bronze medal in the 5,000 meters as well as the silver medal in the 10,000 meters. He is the reigning European and World Allround Champion.At the 2006 European Championships he finished in...
  
  

Soviet

• Ants Antson
  Ants Antson
  Ants Antson is a former Estonian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union. He was born in Tallinn, Estonia.Ants Antson trained at the Kalev Voluntary Sports Society...
  
  
• Vladimir Belov
• Andrey Bobrov
• Dmitry Bochkaryov
• Oleg Bozhev
  Oleg Bozhev
  Oleg Felevich Bozhev is a former speed skater. He trained at VSS Trud.-Short biography:Competing for the Soviet Union, Oleg Bozhev had his best year in 1984 when he won a bronze medal on the 1,500 m at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, became World Allround Champion ten days later, became...
  
  
• Sergey Fokichev
  Sergey Fokichev
  Sergey Rostislavovich Fokichev is a former Russian speed skater who represented the USSR at the 1984 Olympics of Sarajevo, where he won the 500 m. He trained at VSS Trud and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Moscow.He was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1984.-References:...
  
  
• Oleg Goncharenko
  Oleg Goncharenko
  Oleg Georgievich Goncharenko , Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, was the first male Soviet speed skater to become World Allround Champion....
  
  
• Yevgeny Grishin
  Yevgeny Grishin
  Yevgeny Romanovich Grishin was a Soviet/Russian speedskater. Grishin trained for the largest part of his speedskating career at CSKA Moscow...
  
  
• Nikolay Gulyayev
  Nikolay Gulyayev
  Nikolay Alekseyevich Gulyayev is a former speed skater, considered among the world's best in the 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  
• Vasily Ippolitov
• Sergey Klevchenya
  Sergey Klevchenya
  200pxSergey Konstantinovich Klevchenya is a Russian speed skater who competed for the Unified Team in the 1992 Winter Olympics and for Russia in the 1994 Winter Olympics, in the 1998 Winter Olympics, and in the 2002 Winter Olympics....
  
  
• Sergey Khlebnikov
  Sergey Khlebnikov
  Sergey Anatolevich Khlebnikov was a Russian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 and the 1984 Winter Olympics.He was born in Sortavala and died in Moscow by drowning in the Mitinskoe pond; "an oak of a man," the Western press described him as a "tank" and a typical product of...
  
  
• Viktor Kosichkin
  Viktor Kosichkin
  Viktor Ivanovich Kosichkin is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.Viktor Kosichkin trained at Dynamo. He participated in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. On the 5,000 m, held on his 22nd birthday, he gave himself a great birthday gift by winning gold, while the...
  
  
• Yevgeny Kulikov
  Yevgeny Kulikov
  Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kulikov is a former speed skater who specialised in the sprint.Yevgeny Kulikov trained at Burevestnik Voluntary Sports Society...
  
  
• Vladimir Lobanov
  Vladimir Lobanov
  Vladimir Lobanov is a Russian speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics.In 1980 he won the bronze medal in the 1000 metres event. In the 1500 metres competition he finished eighth.-External links:*...
  
  
• Viktor Lyoskin
• Igor Malkov
  Igor Malkov
  Igor Alekseyevich Malkov is a former speedskater.Igor Malkov trained at VSS Trud in Sverdlovsk...
  
  
• Sergey Marchuk
  Sergey Marchuk
  Sergey Vasilyevich Marchuk is a former speed skater from the Soviet Union.-Biography:In 1977, Marchuk skated 3:56.65 on the 3,000 m on the fast Medeo rink of Alma-Ata, significantly below Ard Schenk's world record time of 4:08.3...
  
  
• Eduard Matusevich
• Yuri Mikhaylov
  Yuri Mikhaylov
  Yuri Matveyevich Mikhaylov was a speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union....
  
  
• Valery Muratov
  Valery Muratov
  Valery Alekseyevich Muratov is a former ice speed skater from the USSR, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1968 in Grenoble, France. He trained in Kolomna at Burevestnik and later at the Armed Forces sports society.In 1972 Muratov was awarded the...
  
  
• Dmitry Ogloblin
  Dmitry Ogloblin
  Dmitry Ogloblin is a former Soviet speedskater.He set world record in 3,000 m in Medeo in 1979, with the time 4:04.06.He set world record in 10,000 m in Medeo in 1980, with the time 14:26.71.-References:...
  
  
• Pavel Pegov
  Pavel Pegov
  Pavel Georgievich Pegov is a former speed skater who specialised in the shorter 500 metres and 1000 metres distances. He studied at the East Siberian Technological Institute and trained with Nina Bobrova, and later at the Armed Forces sports society...
  
  
• Dimitry Sakunenko
• Viktor Shasherin
  Viktor Shasherin
  Viktor Shasherin is a former Soviet speedskater.He set world record in 5,000 m in Medeo in 1984, with the time 6:49.15.He set world record in 3,000 m in Davos in 1986, with the time 4:03.22.-References:...
  
  
• Boris Shilkov
  Boris Shilkov
  Boris Arsenevich Shilkov is a former speed skater.- Short biography :Competing for the Soviet Union, Boris Shilkov lived in Leningrad , where he worked as an engineer...
  
  
• Vladimir Shilykovsky
  Vladimir Shilykovsky
  Vladimir Sergeyevich Shilykovsky was a Soviet/Russian speed skater.Shilykovsky competed internationally from 1956 to 1960, and took part in two Winter Olympics, both times in the 10,000 m...
  
  
• Boris Stenin
  Boris Stenin
  Boris Andrianovich Stenin was a Soviet speed skater, speed skating coach, and speed skating scientist.Living in Sverdlovsk, Stenin met and married fellow skater Valentina Stenina during the early days of his speed skating career...
  
  
• Nikolay Strunnikov
  Nikolay Strunnikov
  Nikolay Vasilyevich Strunnikov was a Russian World Champion in speed skating. In addition, he was also successful as a cyclist....
  
  

Swedish

• Per Bengtsson
  Per Bengtsson
  Per Olov Bengtsson is a former ice speed skater from Sweden. He represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics: 1988 in Calgary, Canada, 1992 in Albertville, and 1994 in Lillehammer.-References:...
  
  
• Göran Claeson
  Göran Claeson
  Göran Claeson is a former speed skater from Sweden.Claeson participated in the 1,500 m at the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble, but finished only 20th. In 1969, at the first European Allround Championships in which Claeson participated, he won bronze. Three weeks later, at the first World...
  
  
• Sigvard Ericsson
  Sigvard Ericsson
  John Sigvard "Sigge" Ericsson is a former speed skater.Ericsson started competing internationally in 1951 at the European Allround Championships where he did not qualify for the final distance...
  
  
• Tomas Gustafson
  Tomas Gustafson
  Sven Tomas Gustafson is a retired speed skater, and one of the most successful distance skaters of the 1980s. He was born in Katrineholm, Sweden.-Early career:...
  
  
• Johnny Höglin
  Johnny Höglin
  Johnny Höglin is a Swedish speed skater whose greatest moment was to win a gold medal in the 10,000-meter event at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France....
  
  
• Hans Markström
  Hans Markström
  Hans Peter Markström is a former ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 in Albertville, France. He mainly competed in the sprint events....
  
  
• Ivar Nilsson
• Jonny Nilsson
  Jonny Nilsson
  Erling Martin Jonny Nilsson is a former speed skater from Sweden.-Biography:He was born in Göteborg. Sixty Five days before his 20th birthday, Jonny Nilsson made his international debut at the European Allround Championships in 1962, finishing 15th...
  
  
• Mauritz Öholm
• Johan Röjler
  Johan Röjler
  Johan Röjler is an ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 2002 in Salt Lake City. His main achievements were held as a junior, when he won the Men's Allround Junior World Title in 2000 and took several medals, including 6...
  
  
• Örjan Sandler
  Örjan Sandler
  Örjan Sandler is a Swedish speed skater who competed in the 1964 Winter Olympics, in the 1968 Winter Olympics, in the 1972 Winter Olympics, in the 1976 Winter Olympics, and in the 1980 Winter Olympics.He was born in Sunne....
  
  
• Jonas Schön
  Jonas Schön
  Rolf Jonas Schön is a retired male ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1992 in Albertville, France. He mainly competed in the middle- and the long-distance events.-References:...
  
  
• Åke Seyffarth
  Ake Seyffarth
  Åke Seyffarth was a Swedish speed skater who specialised in long distance events. He was born in Stockholm....
  
  
• Mats Wallberg
  Mats Wallberg
  Mats Wallberg is a former ice speed skater from Sweden, who represented his native country in two consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan.-References:...
  
  

American

• Chantal Bailey
  Chantal Bailey
  Chantal Bailey . Was a member of the 1994 US Olympic Team for Speedskating. Currently she is coach for the Bemidji, MN Pioneer Speedskating Club .-Biography:Chantal was born May 28 and grew up in Champaign, IL...
  
  
• Bonnie Blair
  Bonnie Blair
  Bonnie Kathleen Blair is a retired American speedskater. She is one of the top skaters of her time, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history. Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, and in her Olympic career won five gold medals and one bronze medal.-Career:Blair...
  
  
• Rebekah Bradford
  Rebekah Bradford
  Rebekah Bradford is an American speed skater who has competed since 2002. She was named to the U.S. team for the 2010 Winter Olympics.Graduated Apple Valley High School in 2001.-References:* * * *...
  
  
• Anne Bruckner
• Beth Heiden
  Beth Heiden
  Elizabeth Lee "Beth" Heiden Reid is an American athlete who excelled in speed skating, cross-country skiing and bicycle racing. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin. Her brother Eric was a five-time gold-medalist speedskater at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics...
  
  
• Anne Henning
  Anne Henning
  Anne Elizabeth Henning is a former speed skater from the United States.Anne Henning grew up in Northbrook, Illinois and started in short track speed skating, but then, like many short track speed skaters before and after her, switched to long track speed skating...
  
  
• Dianne Holum
  Dianne Holum
  Dianne Mary Holum is a former speed skater.In 1967, at the age of 15, Dianne Holum won bronze at the World Allround Championships. At the age of 16, Holum earned a silver medal in the 500 meter race at the 1968 Winter Olympics, finishing in a three way tie for second place...
  
  
• Kit Klein
  Kit Klein
  Catherine "Kit" Klein was an American speed skater.- Short biography :Kit Klein was born in Buffalo, New York and started competing on the local level. Later, Klein finished first in the 1500 metres event and third in the 500 metres competition at the 1932 Winter Olympics of Lake Placid, where...
  
  
• Maria Lamb
  Maria Lamb
  Maria Lamb is an Olympic speed skater from River Falls, Wisconsin who competed in 1500m and the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She was also selected to compete in the 5000m for the US at the 2010 Winter Olympics.-References:* * * *...
  
  
• Leah Poulos
  Leah Poulos
  Leah Jean Poulos is a former speed skater.Leah Poulos specialized in the sprint events and made her international debut at the World Sprint Championships in 1970, where she won a silver medal in the 500 meter event...
  
  
• Jennifer Rodriguez
  Jennifer Rodriguez
  Jennifer Rodriguez is a Cuban-American speed skater. She started her career as an artistic roller skater, winning multiple national championships and placing second and third at world championships. Later she switched to inline speed skating and became world champion in 1993...
  
  
• Chris Witty
  Chris Witty
  Christine Diane Witty is an American speed skater and racing cyclist and participated in the Olympic Games in both sports. However, she is more successful in skating....
  
  
• Sheila Young
  Sheila Young
  Sheila Grace Young-Ochowicz is a former speed skater and track cyclist from the United States.-Short biography:...
  
  
• Ellie Ochowicz
• Mia Manganello
• Ericka Hawke
• Catherine Raney
  Catherine Raney
  Catherine Raney-Norman is an Olympic speed skater from Elm Grove, Wisconsin who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics. She has won the U.S. Allround Championship three times in 1999, 2002 and 2003. Raney also made the US team for the 2010 Winter...
  
  
• Heather Richardson
  Heather Richardson
  Heather Richardson is an American speed skater who has competed since 2006. She represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where she finished 6th in 500 metres, 9th in the 1000 metres, and 16th in the 1500 metres.At the 2011 World Single Distance Speed Skating...
  
  
• Anna Ringsgred
• Jessica Smith
• Nancy Swider
• Christine Witty

Canadian

• Susan Auch
  Susan Auch
  Susan Auch is a speed skater who competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000 m. relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m. events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan...
  
  
• Lela Brooks
• Sylvia Burka
  Sylvia Burka
  Sylvia Burka is a former ice speed skater from Canada of Latvian descent, who represented her native country at three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1972 in Sapporo, Japan....
  
  
• Sylvie Daigle
  Sylvie Daigle
  Sylvie Daigle is a Canadian speed skater. She is a member of Canadian Short Track relay team that won gold medal in 1992 Winter Olympics and silver medal in 1994 Winter Olympics. She is also a five-time Overall World Champion...
  
  
• Kristina Groves
  Kristina Groves
  Kristina Groves is a Canadian speedskater. She is Canada’s most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: She won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit....
  
  
• Clara Hughes
  Clara Hughes
  Clara Hughes, OC, OM is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics...
  
  
• Cindy Klassen
  Cindy Klassen
  Cindy Klassen, OM is a Canadian long track speed skater. Klassen is a six-time medalist at the Winter Olympics. She is tied with Clara Hughes for Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian with 6 medals each...
  
  
• Catriona LeMay Doan
  Catriona LeMay Doan
  Catriona Ann Le May Doan, OC is a Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic champion in the 500 m. The proper pronunciation of her first name is "Kah-TREE-O-nah".-Speed skating:...
  
  
• Christine Nesbitt
  Christine Nesbitt
  Christine Nesbitt is a Canadian long track speed skater who currently resides in Calgary, Alberta. Her personal best in the 1000m is the second fastest of all time, right after Cindy Klassen's world record. Nesbitt won the Gold Medal in the 1000 m event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics...
  
  
• Shannon Rempel
  Shannon Rempel
  Shannon Rempel is a Canadian speed skater. Most notably, Rempel is known for her win as the 2003 World Junior Speed Skating Championships and participation in the 2006 Winter Olympics which won her team a silver in the team pursuit.Rempel was a silver medalist in the 1000m at the 2004 World Cup in...
  
  

Dutch

• Margot Boer
  Margot Boer
  Margot Boer is a Dutch speed skater. She is specialised in riding the 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m.After spending a few years at local teams in the Zuid-Holland area Margot Boer was seen as one of the Netherlands main future talents and was offered a contract at the KNSB Youth Development Team for the...
  
  
• Annie Borckink
  Annie Borckink
  Anna Johanna Geertruida Maria Borckink is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. She won the gold medal in the women's 1500 metres event, with Dutch teammate Ria Visser winning the silver medal...
  
  
• Wieteke Cramer
• Paulien van Deutekom
  Paulien van Deutekom
  Paulien van Deutekom is a Dutch speed skater who is specialised in the middle long distances, over 1000 and 1500 metres....
  
  
• Carry Geijssen
  Carry Geijssen
  Carolina Cornelia Catharina Geijssen is a former speed skater from the Netherlands....
  
  
• Yvonne van Gennip
  Yvonne van Gennip
  Yvonne Maria van Gennip was one of the most successful female Dutch all-round speed skaters. Her main success dates from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where she surprisingly won three gold medals...
  
  
• Annette Gerritsen
  Annette Gerritsen
  Annette Gerritsen is a Dutch speed skater. She specialises in the 500 m and 1000 m distances, and won a silver medal in the 1000 metres at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She is the current Dutch Junior record holder in the 500 m and her personal best used to be the World Junior record...
  
  
• Renate Groenewold
  Renate Groenewold
  Renate Groenewold is a Dutch long track speed skater and road bicycle racer.Groenewold has won several Dutch Championships....
  
  
• Tonny de Jong
  Tonny de Jong
  Tonny de Jong is a former speed skater who was raised in Heerenveen and now lives in Calgary with Canadian speed skater Mark Knoll, whom she married in 2003....
  
  
• Stien Kaiser
  Stien Kaiser
  Christina Wilhelmina Baas-Kaiser is a former speed skater from the Netherlands....
  
  
• Atje Keulen-Deelstra
  Atje Keulen-Deelstra
  Atje Keulen-Deelstra is a former speed skater.Keulen-Deelstra was born in Grouw, the Netherlands. When she was 16 years old, Deelstra already won a junior title of Friesland. She practised many sports during those days, but speed skating was her favourite and she won many cash prizes in the...
  
  
• Marrit Leenstra
  Marrit Leenstra (speed skater)
  Marrit Leenstra is a Dutch long track speed skater.In the 2007 season she made her World Cup debut in Moscow ....
  
  
• Barbara de Loor
  Barbara de Loor
  Barbara de Loor is a retired Dutch speed skater who was specialised in the middle long and longer distances, over 1000 to 5000 metres....
  
  
• Laurine van Riessen
  Laurine van Riessen
  Laurine van Riessen is a long track speed skater who competed for the Netherlands at the 2010 Winter Olympics at the 500, 1000, and 1500 metre races where she won the bronze medal in the 1000 m.-External links:...
  
  
• Ans Schut
  Ans Schut
  Johanna Schut is a former ice speed skater from the Netherlands.Ans Schut had her best year in 1968 when, after winning silver at the World Allround Championships, she became Olympic Champion on the 3,000 m at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble...
  
  
• Gretha Smit
  Gretha Smit
  Gretha Smit is a Dutch speed skater.Smit won a surprising silver medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 5000 meter event. She skated a world record broken in a later pair by Claudia Pechstein...
  
  
• Marianne Timmer
  Marianne Timmer
  Maria Aaltje Timmer is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the middle distances . At the 1998 Winter Olympics Timmer won a gold medal in both these events.- Personal life :...
  
  
• Diane Valkenburg
  Diane Valkenburg
  Diane Valkenburg is a Dutch speed skater who is specialised in middle distances and was born in Bergschenhoek.She represented her country at the 2007 Winter Universiade held in Turin where she won the gold medal at the team pursuit together with Moniek Kleinsman and Janneke Ensing.She is...
  
  
• Renske Vellinga
  Renske Vellinga
  Renske Vellinga was an ice speed skater from the Netherlands, who won a bronze and a silver medal at the 1993 Dutch distance championships...
  
  
• Ria Visser
  Ria Visser
  Adriana Johanna Visser is a former ice speed skater from the NetherlandsVisser participated in six World Allround Speed Skating Championships, performing best at her first attempt in 1979, when she came in 6th. In 1979 and 1980 she won the bronze medal in the World Junior Speed Skating...
  
  
• Elma de Vries
  Elma de Vries
  Elma de Vries is a Dutch marathon speed skater and inline speed skater. She is the older sister of marathon speed skater Bob de Vries.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ireen Wüst
  Ireen Wüst
  Ireen Wüst is a Dutch long track allround speed skater. At the age of 19, on February 12, 2006, Wüst won the gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games 3000-meter event...
  
  

German

• Daniela Anschütz
• Stephanie Beckert
  Stephanie Beckert
  Stephanie Beckert is a long-track speed skater from Germany. Her specialty is the 5000 meter. She had a fourth place standing at the 2008–09 Speed Skating World Cup/3000&5000 m Women...
  
  
• Jacqueline Börner
  Jacqueline Börner
  Jacqueline Börner is a former speed skater.Jacqueline Börner won her first international medal when she earned bronze at the 1987 European Allround Championships. Two years later, she won bronze again...
  
   (also competed for DDR)
• Anni Friesinger
  Anni Friesinger
  Anna Christine Friesinger-Postma is a German speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 1976 Winter Olympics. Anni's brother Jan is a speed skater, too...
  
  
• Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (also competed for DDR)
• Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
  Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann
  Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann is a former German speed skater and the most successful speed skater of all time. Born as Gunda Kleemann, she changed her name to Gunda Niemann after her marriage in 1991 to judoka Detlev Niemann. After their divorce in 1995, she kept the name Niemann...
  
   (also competed for DDR)
• Claudia Pechstein
  Claudia Pechstein
  Claudia Pechstein is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time...
  
   (also competed for DDR)
• Christa Rothenburger
  Christa Rothenburger
  Christa Luding-Rothenburger is a former speed skater and track cyclist. She was born in Weißwasser, East Germany.- Short biography :...
  
   (also competed for DDR)
• Franziska Schenk
  Franziska Schenk
  Franziska Schenk is a former German Speed skater. She was a specialist in the sprint distances . At the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer she won a bronze on the 500m in Vikingskipet at Hamar...
  
   (also competed for DDR)
• Sabine Völker
  Sabine Völker
  Sabine Völker is a German former speed skater who won a gold medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics, after winning three individual medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....
  
   (also competed for DDR)
• Jenny Wolf
  Jenny Wolf
  Jenny Wolf is a German ice speed skater who is the current world record holder, at 37.00 seconds, for the women's 500 m and, 74.42 seconds for women's 500 m x 2 in long track speed skating...
  
  

DDR (East German)

• Karin Enke
  Karin Enke
  Karin Enke , also known as Karin Busch, Karin Kania, and Karin Enke-Richter, is a former speed skater, one of the most dominant ones of the 1980s.-Short biography:...
  
  
• Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich
  Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich
  Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich is a former German Speed skater. Born Andrea Mitscherlich, she competed for East Germany...
  
  
• Helga Haase
  Helga Haase
  Helga Haase was a speedskater in the GDR. She was born in Danzig and died in East Berlin.-Career:...
  
  
• Constanze Moser-Scandolo
  Constanze Moser-Scandolo
  Constanze Moser-Scandolo is a former World Champion speed skating who competed for East Germany.-Short biography:Born as Constanze Scandolo in Weimar, East Germany, she started skating at the SC Turbine Erfurt skating club in Erfurt where she trained in the same group as Gunda Niemann and Heike...
  
  
• Gabi Zange
  Gabi Zange
  Gabriele Zange, born Schönbrunn Gabriele ("Gabi") Zange, born Schönbrunn Gabriele ("Gabi") Zange, born Schönbrunn (born June 1, 1961 in Crimmitschau, (now Free State of Saxony) is a former German speed skater. She was in the world elite on the long distances (3000 m and 5000 m). She won three...
  
  

Japanese

• Seiko Hashimoto
  Seiko Hashimoto
  Seiko Hashimoto is a former ice speed skater and track cycling sprinter from Japan, who represented her native country in four consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea...
  
  
• Tomomi Okazaki
  Tomomi Okazaki
  Tomomi Okazaki is a Japanese speed skater who has competed in five Olympic Games. She won a bronze medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Okazaki was the oldest member of the Japanese team at the 2010 Winter Olympics...
  
  
• Miho Takagi

Norwegian

• Hege Bøkko
  Hege Bøkko
  Hege Bøkko is a Norwegian long-track speedskater, and the younger sister of Håvard Bøkko.-Personal life:Hege was born in Hønefoss in Buskerud county, Norway in 1991, but she has been living in Hovet, Buskerud her whole life...
  
  
• Maren Haugli
  Maren Haugli
  Maren Haugli is a Norwegian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.She represents the sports club Jevnaker IF and is the granddaughter of Sverre Ingolf Haugli and sister of Sverre Haugli.-Personal records:...
  
  
• Edel Therese Høiseth
  Edel Therese Høiseth
  Edel Therese Høiseth is a former speed skater from Norway, who specialised in the shorter distances; the 500 m and 1,000 m....
  
  
• Bjørg Eva Jensen
  Bjørg Eva Jensen
  Bjørg Eva Jensen is a speed skater from Norway.-Biography:Jensen had her best year in 1980 when, while still a junior, she became Junior World Allround Champion, won bronze at the World Allround Championships, and won gold on the 3,000 m at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid.Although...
  
  
• Synnøve Lie
  Synnøve Lie
  Synnøve Lie was a Norwegian speed skater.-Biography:Representing Oslo Skøiteklub , Lie became Norwegian Allround Champion in 1933 after having already won the unofficial Norwegian Allround Championships the year before...
  
  
• Laila Schou Nilsen
  Laila Schou Nilsen
  Laila Schou Nilsen was a Norwegian speed skater, alpine skier and tennis player. She was one of the pioneers in Norwegian as well as international speed skating for women.-Biography:...
  
  

Soviet

• Inga Artamonova
  Inga Artamonova
  Inga Grigoryevna Artamonova was a Soviet speed skater, the first four-time Allround World Champion in women's speed skating history. After her marriage in 1959 to fellow speed skater Gennady Voronin , she was also known as Inga Voronina ....
  
  
• Tatyana Averina
  Tatyana Averina
  Tatyana Borisovna Averina was a Soviet Russian speed skater. After getting married, her name would also appear as Tatyana Barabash .-Short biography:...
  
  
• Vera Bryndzei
  Vera Bryndzei
  Vera Vladimirovna Bryndzei is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union....
  
  
• Maria Isakova
  Maria Isakova
  Maria Grigoryevna Isakova , nicknamed Cinderella of Vyatka, was a World Champion speed skater. She was born in Vyatka , Russian SFSR, and competed for the Soviet Union....
  
  
• Natalya Petrusyova
• Tamara Rylova
  Tamara Rylova
  Tamara Nikolayevna Rylova is a former speed skater.After World War II had ended, Soviet women started dominating speed skating and would continue do so for at least 20 years. Tamara Rylova was one of them. She trained at Burevestnik in Leningrad...
  
  
• Lidia Skoblikova
  Lidia Skoblikova
  Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova is a Russia former speed skater. Representing the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960 and 1964, she won a total of six gold medals, still a record number for a speed skater. She also won 25 gold medals at the World Championships and 15 gold medals...
  
  
• Nina Statkevich
  Nina Statkevich
  Nina Andreyevna Statkevich is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.Nina Statkevich trained at VSS Trud in Leningrad. She won many titles – she was World Allround Champion, European Allround Champion twice, Soviet Allround Champion four times, and Soviet Sprint Champion...
  
  
• Valentina Stenina
  Valentina Stenina
  Valentina Sergeyevna Stenina is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.Born Valentina Miloslavova in Babruysk , she fled to Sverdlovsk – taken by her mother – in 1941 because of World War II...
  
  
• Galina Stepanskaya
  Galina Stepanskaya
  Galina Andreyevna Stepanskaya is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union....
  
  
• Lyudmila Titova
  Lyudmila Titova
  Lyudmila Evgenevna Titova is a former speed skater.-Short biography:She trained at Burevestnik and later at Zenit sports societies. Skating for the Soviet Union, Lyudmila Titova made her international debut at the World Allround Championships of 1966...
  
  
• Rimma Zhukova
  Rimma Zhukova
  Rimma Mikhaylovna Zhukova was a speed skater. She was born in Sverdlovsk, Russia.Rimma Zhukova competed for the Soviet Union and after having become Soviet Allround Champion three times and having won the prestigious Kirov prize four times, she became World Allround Champion in 1955. Zhukova was...
  
  

American

• Apolo Anton Ohno
  Apolo Anton Ohno
  Apolo Anton Ohno is an American short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist in the Winter Olympics. He is the most decorated American Winter Olympic athlete of all time....
  
  
• JR Celski
• Dan Weinstein
  Dan Weinstein (athlete)
  -Biography:Of the handful of Jewish-American Olympians who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano, Japan, Weinstein was by far the youngest. At 17 years of age, he was not only the youngest athlete on the U.S. speedskating team, he was also the youngest man on the entire U.S. Winter...
  
  
• Anthony Lobello Jr
  Anthony Lobello Jr
  Anthony J. Lobello, Jr. is an American short track speed skater who competed in the 2006 Olympics and will participate in the qualifying event to take place in Marquette, Michigan September 8–12, 2009, for the 2010 Olympics....
  
  
• Jordan Malone
  Jordan Malone
  Jordan Malone is an American short track speed skater who is a member of the US Olympic Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He is from Denton, Texas, and is an alumnus of the Texas Tech University Independent School District....
  
  
• Simon Cho
  Simon Cho
  Simon Cho is an American short track speed skater who was a member of the US Olympic Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.-Early life:...
  
  
• Rusty Smith
  Rusty Smith
  Rusty Smith is a short track speed skater from the United States who won bronze in the 500m at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and another bronze in the 5000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin....
  
  
• Alex Izykowski
  Alex Izykowski
  Alex "Izzy" Izykowski is an American short track speed skater. He competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin in the 1500m, and was also part of the bronze medal winning 5000m relay.- External links :**...
  
  
• Ryan Bedford
  Ryan Bedford
  Ryan Bedford is an American speed skater who competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics.-External links:...
  
  
• Travis Jayner
  Travis Jayner
  Travis Jayner is a Canadian-born American short track speed skater who is a member of the US Olympic Team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He earned a bronze medal in the 5000-meter relay with teammates Apolo Ohno, J.R...
  
  
• J. P. Kepka
• Kyle Carr
• Anthony Griffay
• Joey Lindsey
• Johnathen Sermeno
• John Henry Krueger
• Cole Krueger
• Walter Rusk
• Ansis Robs
• Kyle Uyehara
  Kyle Uyehara
  Kyle Uyehara is a U.S. short track speed skater.He has been skating for 13 years. He started his speed skating career in Lakewood, Ca moving to Marquette MI to train with the USOEC from 2006-2008. He is now currently one of eight men on the U.S national short track team training in Kearns, UT at...
  
  
• Levi Kirkpatrick
• Barry Winslow
• David Lisi
• Pat Maxwell
• Bill Lanigan
• Barth Levy
• Charles King
  Charles King
  -Academics:* Charles King , former president of Columbia University* Charles King , Georgetown University professor and author* Charles Spencer King ,Baba Awo and author-Arts:...
  
  
• Keith King
  Keith King
  Keith King is the state Senator from Colorado's Senate District 12. He is a Republican.From 1999 to 2006, King represented House District 21 in the Colorado House of Representatives...
  
  
• Bob Fenn

Canadian

• Eric Bedard
  Éric Bédard
  Éric Bédard is a Canadian short track speed skater who has won 4 Olympic medals . He participated in three individual events at the 2006 Winter Olympics and finished fourth in the 500 meters. He also led a team into the 5000 meter relay, winning the silver medal...
  
  
• Gaétan Boucher
  Gaétan Boucher
  Gaétan Boucher, OC, CQ is a former Speed skating Olympic champion from Canada.A four-time Olympic medalist, Boucher was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's outstanding male athlete of 1984. He was named number 10 on the list of Canada's Athletes of the 20th Century...
  
  
• Marc Gagnon
  Marc Gagnon
  Marc Gagnon is a French Canadian short track speed skater. He is a four-time Overall World Champion for 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and winner of three Olympic gold medals....
  
  
• Charles Hamelin
  Charles Hamelin
  Charles Hamelin is a Canadian short track speed skater from Sainte-Julie, Quebec. Hamelin is a 3 time Olympic medalist having won 2 gold and 1 silver during the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics...
  
  
• François Hamelin
  François Hamelin
  François Hamelin is a Canadian short track speed skater from Sainte-Julie, Quebec, currently residing in Montreal. He is the younger brother of acclaimed Canadian short tracker Charles Hamelin...
  
  
• François-Louis Tremblay
  François-Louis Tremblay
  François-Louis Tremblay is a Canadian short track speed skater and five-time Olympic medalist who competed at the 2002, 2006, and 2010 Winter Olympics....
  
  
• Mathieu Turcotte
  Mathieu Turcotte
  Mathieu Turcotte is a Canadian athlete. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec.Turcotte rose to fame within Canada, upon winning the bronze in the men's 1000 m in the short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, with a time of 1:30.563 , and winning a gold as part...
  
  
• Guillaume Bastille
  Guillaume Bastille
  Guillaume Bastille is a Canadian short track speed skater from Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec.He competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the men's 1500 metre short track and the men's 5000 metre relay competitions...
  
  
• Olivier Jean
  Olivier Jean
  Olivier Jean is a Canadian short track speed skater from Lachenaie, Quebec currently residing in Montreal. He is a well known figure for his dreadlocks and for listening to reggae which he says makes him skate faster.Jean skates in every distance for the Canadian team and is a member of the...
  
  

ROK (South Korean)

• Ahn Hyun Soo
  Ahn Hyun Soo
  Ahn Hyun-Soo is a Short track speed skating athlete from South Korea. One of the most accomplished Short Track Speed Skaters of all time, Ahn won three gold medals and a bronze medal in 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy, becoming the most successful athlete there...
  
  
• Chae Ji-Hoon
  Chae Ji-Hoon
  Chae Ji-Hoon is a retired South Korean short track speed skater-Playing career:...
  
  
• Kim Dong-Sung
  Kim Dong-Sung
  Kim Dong-Sung is a former South Korean short track speed skater. He won a gold medal in 1000m race and silver medal in 5000m relay at the 1998 Winter Olympics...
  
  
• Kim Ki-hoon
  Kim Ki-hoon
  Kim Ki-hoon is the first gold medalist in Winter Olympics for Korea. He is a three-time Olympic Champion and 1992 Overall World Champion....
  
  
• Lee Ho-Suk
  Lee Ho-Suk
  Lee Ho-Suk is a South Korean short track speedskater. He won an Olympic gold medal as a part of 5000m Short-track relay team and won four Olympic silver medals. He is the Overall World Champion for 2009 and 2010.-Career:...
  
  
• Seo Ho-Jin
  Seo Ho-Jin
  Seo Ho-Jin is a South Korean short track speed skater who won gold in the 5000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.-References:...
  
  
• Song Suk-Woo
  Song Suk-Woo
  Song Suk-Woo is a South Korean short track speed skater who won gold in the 5000m relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.-References:...
  
  
• Kwak Yoon-Gy
  Kwak Yoon-Gy
  Kwak Yoon-Gy is a South Korean short track speed skater.-External links:*...
  
  
• Sung Si-Bak
  Sung Si-Bak
  Sung Si-Bak is a South Korean short track speed skater. At the 2007 Winter Universiade, he won all five short track speed skating events. Sung has won more than 20 World Cup races and earned two World Cup titles, in addition to skating on the winning World Championship 5000 m relay teams in...
  
  
• Lee Jung-Su
  Lee Jung-Su
  Lee Jung-Su is a South Korean short track speed skater. He is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2010 Winter Olympics....
  
  

New Zealand

• Mike McMillen
• Andrew Nicholson
• Chris Nicholson
• Tony Smith
• Matt Fuller (Current NZ Champ)
• Blake Skjellerup
  Blake Skjellerup
  Blake Skjellerup is a short-track speed skater who competed for New Zealand at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Skjellerup finished sixteenth in the 2010 Olympics....
  
  

American

• Katherine Reutter
  Katherine Reutter
  Katherine Reutter is an American short track speed skater. She is a two-time medalist in the Winter Olympics, 2011 overall world silver medalist and the 2010-2011 overall ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup champion....
  
  
• Allison Baver
  Allison Baver
  Allison Baver is an American short track speed skater. Baver trains with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 2005-2006 season, she was ranked third overall in the World Rankings...
  
  
• Kimberly Derrick
  Kimberly Derrick
  Kimberly Derrick is an American short track speed skater.-Biography:Derrick graduated from Northern Michigan University with a degree in elementary education.-2006 Winter Olympics:...
  
  
• Hyo-Jung Kim
• Jessica Smith
  Jessica Smith
  Jessica Smith may refer to:* Jessica Smith , , American activist and editor* Jessica Smith , one of the co-stars in the TV series Laguna Beach and portrayed the 'sun' in kids TV show The Teletubbies....
  
  
• Alexis Burkholder
• Cherise Wilkins
• Sonia Milan
• Carly Wilson
• Tina Koenig
• Mary Grace
• Lana Gehring
  Lana Gehring
  Lana Gehring is an American short track speed skater.-Career:At the 2010 Winter Olympics, in Vancouver, Gehring won a bronze medal as part of the 3000 m relay team.-External links:*...
  
  
• Alyson Dudek
  Alyson Dudek
  Alyson Dudek in is an American short track speed skater and Olympic bronze medallist.-Biography:Dudek attended Divine Savior Holy Angels High School for three and a half years. Dudek qualified for her first World Cup team while still a high school student and finished her high school education...
  
  
• Cathy Turner
  Cathy Turner
  Cathy Ann Turner is an American short track speed skater, who won gold medals at the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1994 Winter Olympics....
  
  

Canadian

• Susan Auch
  Susan Auch
  Susan Auch is a speed skater who competed in several Winter Olympics games, winning the bronze in the 3000 m. relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver in the 500 m. events at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway and the 1998 games at Nagano, Japan...
  
  
• Sylvie Daigle
  Sylvie Daigle
  Sylvie Daigle is a Canadian speed skater. She is a member of Canadian Short Track relay team that won gold medal in 1992 Winter Olympics and silver medal in 1994 Winter Olympics. She is also a five-time Overall World Champion...
  
  
• Anouk Leblanc-Boucher
  Anouk Leblanc-Boucher
  Anouk Leblanc-Boucher is a Canadian short track speed skating athlete at the 2006 Winter Olympics....
  
  
• Amanda Overland
  Amanda Overland
  Amanda Overland is a Canadian short track speed skater who competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics. She is the sister of Kevin Overland and Cindy Overland, both Olympic Speed Skaters....
  
  
• Kalyna Roberge
  Kalyna Roberge
  Kalyna Roberge is a Canadian short track speed skater.Roberge has won a gold medal in the 3000m relay at the 2005 World Championships. She also placed third overall at the 2005 World Junior Championships including a gold medal in the 500m. She also won a gold medal at a World Cup event in the...
  
  
• Tania Vicent
  Tania Vicent
  Tania Vicent is a Canadian short track speed skater, who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. On February 22, along with Alanna Kraus, Anouk Leblanc-Boucher and Kalyna Roberge, Vicent won a silver medal for Canada in the 3000m relay...
  
  
• Alanna Kraus
  Alanna Kraus
  Alanna Kraus is a Canadian short track speed skater. She won the bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in short-track speed skating for the women's 3000 m relay. She competed in three individual events at the 2002 Games...
  
  
• Marianne St-Gelais
  Marianne St-Gelais
  Marianne St-Gelais is a Canadian short track speed skater. She won two silver medals in the 500 m and 3,000 m events at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.-Personal life:...
  
  

ROK (South Korean)

• Chun Lee-kyung
  Chun Lee-kyung
  Chun Lee-Kyung is a retired South Korean short track speed skater. She is a four-time Olympic Champion and three-time Overall World Champion for 1995-1997...
  
  
• Jin Sun-Yu
  Jin Sun-Yu
  Jin Sun-Yu is a South Korean short-track speed skater. She is a triple Olympic Champion from 2006 and a three-time Overall World Champion ....
  
  
• Ko Gi-hyun
  Ko Gi-Hyun
  Ko Gi-Hyun is a South Korean short track speed skater. Ko remains the second youngest individual gold medalist after Tara Lipinski in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, winning gold in women's 1500 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt lake city, United States, at 15 years and 277...
  
  
• Noh Ah-Reum
  Noh Ah-Reum
  Noh Ah-Reum is a South Korean short track speed skater.-Career:Noh won three distances and the overall classification at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bolzano. She became the overall champion again at the 2009 World Junior Championships in Sherbrooke...