World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships for Men

The International Skating Union has organised the World Single Distance Championships for Men since 1996.

Locations

1996 Hamar, Norway
1997 Warsaw, Poland
1998 Calgary, Canada
1999 Heerenveen, Netherlands
2000 Nagano, Japan
2001 Salt Lake City, United States
2002 Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2003 Berlin, Germany
2004 Seoul, South Korea
2005 Inzell, Germany
2006 Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2007 Salt Lake City, United States
2008 Nagano, Japan
2009 Vancouver, Canada
2010 Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2011 Inzell, Germany
2012 Heerenveen, Netherlands
2013 Sochi, Russia
2014 Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2015 Heerenveen, Netherlands
2016 Kolomna, Russia
2017 Gangneung, South Korea
2018 Not held because of Winter Olympic Games

Medal winners

500 m

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Sergey Klevchenya	Roger Strøm
1997	Manabu Horii	Roger Strøm	Hiroyasu Shimizu
1998	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Sylvain Bouchard	Jeremy Wotherspoon
1999	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Erben Wennemars	Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
2000	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Mike Ireland	Jeremy Wotherspoon
2001	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Casey FitzRandolph
2002	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2003	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Erben Wennemars
2004	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Dmitry Lobkov	Mike Ireland
2005	Joji Kato	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Jeremy Wotherspoon
2006	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2007	Lee Kang-seok	Yuya Oikawa	Tucker Fredricks
2008	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Lee Kyou-hyuk	Joji Kato
2009	Lee Kang-seok	Lee Kyou-hyuk	Yu Fengtong
2010	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2011	Lee Kyou-hyuk	Joji Kato	Jan Smeekens
2012	Mo Tae-bum	Michel Mulder	Pekka Koskela
2013	Mo Tae-bum	Joji Kato	Jan Smeekens
2014	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2015	Pavel Kulizhnikov	Michel Mulder	Laurent Dubreuil
2016	Pavel Kulizhnikov	Ruslan Murashov	Alex Boisvert-Lacroix

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[1]

Medal table 500 m
Nation				Total
Japan	7	5	2	14
South Korea	5	2	0	7
Canada	3	3	5	11
Russia	2	3	0	5
Netherlands	0	3	4	7
Norway	0	1	1	2
United States	0	0	2	2
China	0	0	1	1
Finland	0	0	1	1

1,000 m

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Sergey Klevchenya	Ådne Søndrål	Jaegal Sung-yeol
1997	Ådne Søndrål	Jan Bos	Martin Hersman
1998	Sylvain Bouchard	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Hiroyasu Shimizu
1999	Jan Bos	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
2000	Ådne Søndrål	Jan Bos	Mike Ireland
2001	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Ådne Søndrål	Sergey Klevchenya
2002	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2003	Erben Wennemars	Gerard van Velde	Joey Cheek
2004	Erben Wennemars	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Masaaki Kobayashi
2005	Even Wetten	Jan Bos	Petter Andersen Pekka Koskela
2006	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2007	Shani Davis	Denny Morrison	Lee Kyou-hyuk
2008	Shani Davis	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Denny Morrison
2009	Trevor Marsicano	Denny Morrison	Shani Davis
2010	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2011	Shani Davis	Kjeld Nuis	Stefan Groothuis
2012	Stefan Groothuis	Kjeld Nuis	Shani Davis
2013	Denis Kuzin	Mo Tae-bum	Shani Davis
2014	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2015	Shani Davis	Pavel Kulizhnikov	Kjeld Nuis
2016	Pavel Kulizhnikov	Denis Yuskov	Kjeld Nuis

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[2]

Medal table 1000 m
Nation				Total
United States	5	0	4	9
Netherlands	4	6	5	15
Norway	3	2	1	6
Canada	2	4	2	8
Russia	2	3	1	6
Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
Japan	0	1	2	3
South Korea	0	1	2	3
Finland	0	0	1	1

1,500 m

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Jeroen Straathof	Ådne Søndrål	Martin Hersman
1997	Rintje Ritsma	Ådne Søndrål	Neal Marshall
1998	Ådne Søndrål	Ids Postma	Roberto Sighel
1999	Ids Postma	Ådne Søndrål	Rintje Ritsma
2000	Ids Postma	Ådne Søndrål	Jan Bos
2001	Ådne Søndrål	Derek Parra	Erben Wennemars
2002	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2003	Erben Wennemars	Ralf van der Rijst	Joey Cheek
2004	Shani Davis	Mark Tuitert	Erben Wennemars
2005	Rune Stordal	Mark Tuitert	Even Wetten
2006	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2007	Shani Davis	Erben Wennemars	Denny Morrison
2008	Denny Morrison	Sven Kramer Shani Davis	none awarded
2009	Shani Davis	Trevor Marsicano	Denny Morrison
2010	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2011	Håvard Bøkko	Shani Davis	Lucas Makowsky
2012	Denny Morrison	Ivan Skobrev	Håvard Bøkko
2013	Denis Yuskov	Shani Davis	Ivan Skobrev
2014	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2015	Denis Yuskov	Denny Morrison	Koen Verweij
2016	Denis Yuskov	Kjeld Nuis	Thomas Krol

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[3]

Medal table 1500 m
Nation				Total
Netherlands	5	7	7	19
Norway	4	4	2	10
United States	3	5	1	9
Russia	3	1	1	5
Canada	2	1	4	7
Italy	0	0	1	1

5,000 m

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Ids Postma	Keiji Shirahata	Gianni Romme
1997	Rintje Ritsma	Gianni Romme	Frank Dittrich
1998	Gianni Romme	Rintje Ritsma	Bart Veldkamp
1999	Gianni Romme	Bart Veldkamp	Bob de Jong
2000	Gianni Romme	Bob de Jong	Keiji Shirahata
2001	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen	Gianni Romme
2002	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2003	Jochem Uytdehaage	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen
2004	Chad Hedrick	Carl Verheijen	Gianni Romme
2005	Chad Hedrick	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen
2006	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2007	Sven Kramer	Enrico Fabris	Carl Verheijen
2008	Sven Kramer	Enrico Fabris	Wouter olde Heuvel
2009	Sven Kramer	Håvard Bøkko	Trevor Marsicano
2010	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2011	Bob de Jong	Lee Seung-hoon	Ivan Skobrev
2012	Sven Kramer	Bob de Jong	Jonathan Kuck
2013	Sven Kramer	Jorrit Bergsma	Ivan Skobrev
2014	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2015	Sven Kramer	Jorrit Bergsma	Douwe de Vries
2016	Sven Kramer	Jorrit Bergsma	Sverre Lunde Pedersen

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[4]

Medal table 5000 m
Nation				Total
Netherlands	15	11	9	35
United States	2	0	2	4
Italy	0	2	0	2
Belgium	0	1	1	2
Japan	0	1	1	2
Norway	0	1	1	2
South Korea	0	1	0	1
Russia	0	0	2	2
Germany	0	0	1	1

10,000 m

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996	Gianni Romme	Bart Veldkamp	Frank Dittrich
1997	Gianni Romme	Rintje Ritsma	Bob de Jong
1998	Gianni Romme	Bob de Jong	Frank Dittrich
1999	Bob de Jong	Gianni Romme	Frank Dittrich
2000	Gianni Romme	Bob de Jong	Frank Dittrich
2001	Carl Verheijen	Bob de Jong	Vadim Sayutin
2002	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2003	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen	Lasse Sætre
2004	Carl Verheijen	Bob de Jong	Chad Hedrick
2005	Bob de Jong	Carl Verheijen	Chad Hedrick
2006	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2007	Sven Kramer	Carl Verheijen	Brigt Rykkje
2008	Sven Kramer	Enrico Fabris	Bob de Jong
2009	Sven Kramer	Håvard Bøkko	Bob de Jong
2010	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2011	Bob de Jong	Bob de Vries	Ivan Skobrev
2012	Bob de Jong	Jorrit Bergsma	Jonathan Kuck
2013	Jorrit Bergsma	Sven Kramer	Bob de Jong
2014	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2015	Jorrit Bergsma	Erik Jan Kooiman	Patrick Beckert
2016	Sven Kramer	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Erik Jan Kooiman

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[5]

Medal table 10,000 m
Nation				Total
Netherlands	17	13	6	36
Norway	0	1	1	2
Belgium	0	1	0	1
Italy	0	1	0	1
Canada	0	1	0	1
Germany	0	0	5	5
United States	0	0	3	3
Russia	0	0	2	2

Mass start

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2015	Arjan Stroetinga	Fabio Francolini	Alexis Contin
2016	Lee Seung-hoon	Arjan Stroetinga	Alexis Contin

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[6]

Medal table mass start
Nation				Total
Netherlands	1	1	0	2
South Korea	1	0	0	1
Italy	0	1	0	1
France	0	0	2	2

Team pursuit

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2005	Netherlands Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	Italy Matteo Anesi Enrico Fabris Ippolito Sanfratello	Norway Petter Andersen Odd Borgersen Eskil Ervik
2006	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2007	Netherlands Sven Kramer Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	Canada Arne Dankers Denny Morrison Justin Warsylewicz	Russia Yevgeny Lalenkov Ivan Skobrev Alexey Yunin
2008	Netherlands Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Erben Wennemars	Italy Matteo Anesi Enrico Fabris Luca Stefani	Germany Jörg Dallmann Stefan Heythausen Marco Weber
2009	Netherlands Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Carl Verheijen	Sweden Joel Eriksson Daniel Friberg Johan Röjler	United States Ryan Bedford Brian Hansen Trevor Marsicano
2010	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2011	United States Shani Davis Jonathan Kuck Trevor Marsicano	Canada Mathieu Giroux Lucas Makowsky Denny Morrison	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Koen Verweij Bob de Vries
2012	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	United States Shani Davis Brian Hansen Jonathan Kuck	Russia Yevgeny Lalenkov Ivan Skobrev Denis Yuskov
2013	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	South Korea Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	Poland Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański
2014	Not held because of Winter Olympic Games
2015	Netherlands Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Douwe de Vries	Canada Jordan Belchos Ted-Jan Bloemen Denny Morrison	South Korea Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon
2016	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Douwe de Vries Arjan Stroetinga	Norway Håvard Bøkko Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Canada Jordan Belchos Ted-Jan Bloemen Benjamin Donnelly

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[7]

Medal table team pursuit
Nation				Total
Netherlands	8	0	1	9
United States	1	1	1	3
Canada	0	3	1	4
Italy	0	2	0	2
Norway	0	1	1	2
South Korea	0	1	1	2
Sweden	0	1	0	1
Russia	0	0	2	2
Germany	0	0	1	1
Poland	0	0	1	1

Medal summary

Nations (updated 2016)

Nation				Total
Netherlands	50	41	32	123
United States	11	6	13	30
Canada	7	12	13	32
Norway	7	10	7	24
Russia	7	7	8	22
Japan	7	7	5	19
South Korea	6	5	3	14
Kazakhstan	1	0	0	1
Italy	0	6	1	7
Belgium	0	2	1	3
Sweden	0	1	0	1
Germany	0	0	7	7
Finland	0	0	2	2
France	0	0	2	2
China	0	0	1	1
Poland	0	0	1	1

World champions (2016)

Skater				Total
Sven Kramer	17	2	0	19
Shani Davis	8	4	3	15
Bob de Jong	7	8	5	20
Gianni Romme	7	2	3	12
Erben Wennemars	6	2	3	11
Carl Verheijen	5	5	3	13
Hiroyasu Shimizu	5	3	2	10
Ådne Søndrål	4	6	0	10
Jeremy Wotherspoon	4	3	3	10
Denis Yuskov	3	1	1	5
Pavel Kulizhnikov	3	1	0	4
Ids Postma	3	1	0	4
Koen Verweij	3	0	2	5
Jan Blokhuijsen	3	0	1	4
Denny Morrison	2	6	3	11
Jorrit Bergsma	2	4	0	6
Rintje Ritsma	2	2	1	5
Trevor Marsicano	2	1	2	5
Mo Tae-bum	2	1	0	3
Arjan Stroetinga	2	1	0	3
Chad Hedrick	2	0	2	4
Wouter olde Heuvel	2	0	1	3
Douwe de Vries	2	0	1	3
Lee Kang-seok	2	0	0	2
Jan Bos	1	3	1	5
Håvard Bøkko	1	3	1	5
Joji Kato	1	2	1	4
Lee Kyou-hyuk	1	2	1	4
Lee Seung-hoon	1	2	1	4
Mark Tuitert	1	2	0	3
Jonathan Kuck	1	1	2	4
Sergey Klevchenya	1	1	1	3
Sylvain Bouchard	1	1	0	2
Stefan Groothuis	1	0	1	2
Even Wetten	1	0	1	2
Manabu Horii	1	0	0	1
Denis Kuzin	1	0	0	1
Rune Stordal	1	0	0	1
Jeroen Straathof	1	0	0	1
Jochem Uytdehaage	1	0	0	1

Silver medalists (2016)

Skater			Total
Enrico Fabris	5	0	5
Kjeld Nuis	3	2	5
Ted-Jan Bloemen	2	1	3
Bart Veldkamp	2	1	3
Matteo Anesi	2	0	2
Michel Mulder	2	0	2
Ivan Skobrev	1	6	7
Mike Ireland	1	2	3
Yevgeny Lalenkov	1	2	3
Jordan Belchos	1	1	2
Brian Hansen	1	1	2
Kim Cheol-min	1	1	2
Erik Jan Kooiman	1	1	2
Lucas Makowsky	1	1	2
Sverre Lunde Pedersen	1	1	2
Keiji Shirahata	1	1	2
Roger Strøm	1	1	2
Bob de Vries	1	1	2
Arne Dankers	1	0	1
Joel Eriksson	1	0	1
Fabio Francolini	1	0	1
Daniel Friberg	1	0	1
Mathieu Giroux	1	0	1
Joo Hyong-jun	1	0	1
Dmitry Lobkov	1	0	1
Ruslan Murashov	1	0	1
Simen Spieler Nilsen	1	0	1
Yuya Oikawa	1	0	1
Derek Parra	1	0	1
Ralf van der Rijst	1	0	1
Johan Röjler	1	0	1
Ippolito Sanfratello	1	0	1
Luca Stefani	1	0	1
Gerard van Velde	1	0	1
Justin Warsylewicz	1	0	1

Bronze medalists (2016)

Skater
Frank Dittrich	5
Petter Andersen	2
Joey Cheek	2
Alexis Contin	2
Martin Hersman	2
Pekka Koskela	2
Jakko Jan Leeuwangh	2
Jan Smeekens	2
Patrick Beckert	1
Ryan Bedford	1
Alex Boisvert-Lacroix	1
Odd Bohlin Borgersen	1
Zbigniew Bródka	1
Jörg Dallmann	1
Benjamin Donnelly	1
Laurent Dubreuil	1
Eskil Ervik	1
Yu Fengtong	1
Casey Fitzrandolph	1
Tucker Fredricks	1
Stefan Heythausen	1
Jaegal Sung-yeol	1
Ko Byung-wook	1
Masaaki Kobayashi	1
Thomas Krol	1
Neal Marshall	1
Konrad Niedźwiedzki	1
Brigt Rykkje	1
Vadim Sayutin	1
Lasse Sætre	1
Roberto Sighel	1
Jan Szymański	1
Marco Weber	1
Alexey Yunin	1

References

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^ "WK Afstanden 1000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "WK Afstanden 1500 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "WK Afstanden 5000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "WK Afstanden 10000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "WK Afstanden 10000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
^ "WK Afstanden Achtervolging mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

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[2] "WK Afstanden 1000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

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[4] "WK Afstanden 5000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

[5] "WK Afstanden 10000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

[6] "WK Afstanden 10000 meter mannen" (in Dutch). schaatsstatistieken.nl. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

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