Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games

Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games
Venue	Heilongjiang Indoor Rink
Dates	5–9 February 1996
Competitors	53 from 5 nations

Speed skating at the 1996 Winter Asian Games took place in Heilongjiang Indoor Rink Harbin-Nangang in the city of Harbin, China with nine events contested — five for men and four for women. The events were scheduled for February 5– February 9, 1996.

Schedule

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Race

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Last race

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Final

Event↓/Date →	5th Mon	6th Tue	7th Wed	8th Thu	9th Fri
Men's 500 m	●	●
Men's 1000 m				F
Men's 1500 m			F
Men's 5000 m	F
Men's 10000 m					F
Women's 500 m	●	●
Women's 1000 m				F
Women's 1500 m			F
Women's 3000 m	F

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 m	Jaegal Sung-yeol  South Korea	Shared gold	Kim Yoon-man  South Korea
	Takahiro Hamamichi  Japan
1000 m	Yusuke Imai  Japan	Kim Yoon-man  South Korea	Vadim Shakshakbayev  Kazakhstan
1500 m	Yusuke Imai  Japan	Shinya Tanaka  Japan	Sergey Tsybenko  Kazakhstan
5000 m	Mitsuru Watanabe  Japan	Daigo Miyaki  Japan	Yevgeniy Sanarov  Kazakhstan
10000 m	Shigekazu Nemoto  Japan	Radik Bikchentayev  Kazakhstan	Yevgeniy Sanarov  Kazakhstan

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 m	Wang Manli  China	Shared gold	Jin Hua  China
	Xue Ruihong  China
1000 m	Chun Hee-joo  South Korea	Aki Tonoike  Japan	Chihiro Monda  Japan
1500 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan	Aki Tonoike  Japan	Eriko Seo  Japan
3000 m	Lyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan	Eriko Seo  Japan	Saori Igami  Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	5	3	13
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	1	4	7
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	1	4
4	China (CHN)	2	0	1	3
Totals (4 entries)		11	7	9	27

Participating nations

A total of 53 athletes from 5 nations competed in speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games:

•  China (15)
•  Japan (18)
•  Kazakhstan (9)
•  Mongolia (1)
•  South Korea (10)

References

• Results of the 3rd Asian Winter Games at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
• Results