Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics
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Speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marath ...
at the
1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...
was held from 9 to 18 February. Nine events were contested at
Zetra Ice Rink The Zetra Ice Rink or Zetra Stadium ( bs, Olimpijska Dvorana Zetra) is an outdoor venue located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Constructed between 1981 and 1982, it hosted the speed skating events for the 1984 Winter Olympics. This venue is ...
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Medal summary


Medal table

East Germany topped the medal table with four gold medals, and eleven total, including a complete sweep of gold and silver medals in the four women's events. This was only the second Games in which the United States did not win a speed skating medal, and as of 2018, the only time since 1960 the Netherlands did not win a medal in the sport. Japan's
Yoshihiro Kitazawa is a Japanese speed skater who competed in the 1984 Winter Olympics. He was born in Kushiro, Hokkaidō is a city in Kushiro Subprefecture on the island of Hokkaido, Japan. It serves as the subprefecture's capital and it is the most ...
won his country's first Olympic medal in speed skating. East Germany's
Karin Enke Karin Voss ( Enke, formerly Busch ,Kania and Richter, born 20 June 1961) is a former speed skater, one of the most dominant of the 1980s. She is a three-time Olympic gold medallist, winning the 500 metres in 1980, the 1000 metres in 1984 and ...
led the individual medal table, winning a medal in each of the women's events, finishing with two golds and two silvers. Canada's
Gaétan Boucher Gaétan T. Boucher, (born May 10, 1958), is a Canadian former speed skating Olympic champion. Biography Boucher first trained in ice hockey, the leading sport in Canada but then changed to speed skating after winning a national title in 1972. ...
was the most successful male skater, with two gold medals and a bronze.


Men's events


Women's events


Records

No men's records were broken in Sarajevo, but all four women's Olympic records were bettered, and there was one world record set as well.


Participating NOCs

Twenty-four nations competed in the speed skating events at Sarajevo. The British Virgin Islands and Yugoslavia made their debuts in the sport. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


References

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