This is a list of all full-length (400 meter) indoor
speed skating rink A speed skating rink (or speed skating oval) is an ice rink in which a speed skating competition is held.
The rink
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s in the world.
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/ref> The Richmond Olympic Oval
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and the Sport und Koncert Komplex (Winter Stadium)
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are the only venues to have been dismantled as a speed skating rink, in 2010 and 1992 respectively. The first indoor artificial speed skating oval was the Sportforum Hohenschönhausen
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Sportforum Hohenschönhausen co ...
in East Berlin
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, Germany in 1985. The first indoor artificial speed skating oval used in the Winter Olympics was the Olympic Oval
The Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is North America's first covered speed skating oval; it was built for the 1988 Winter Olympics and opened on September 27, 1987.Calgary
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, Alberta
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, Canada in 1988
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. Since the 1994 Winter Olympics
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in Lillehammer
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, Norway all speed skating competitions have been held in indoor ovals.
Current rinks
Closed/Reconfigured rinks
Notes
References
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Lists of stadiums
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