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Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification

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The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Qualification rules

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A total quota of 180 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (max. 100 men and max. 80 women). Countries were assigned quotas based on their performance during the 2017–18 ISU Speed Skating World Cup in the autumn of 2017. Each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of three athletes per gender for all events apart from the 5000m, 10000m and mass start events, for which they could enter a maximum of two athletes per event.[1]

Qualification times

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The following requisite qualification times were released in June 2017.[2]

Event Men Women
500 metres 35.70 39.50
1000 metres 1:10.50 1:18.00
1500 metres 1:48.00 1:59.50
3000 metres 4:12.00
5000 metres 6:30.00 7:20.00 or 4:08.00 (3000 m)
Mass start 1:57.50 (1500 m) 2:10.00 (1500 m)
10,000 metres 13:30.00 or 6:25.00 (5000 m)

Quota allocation

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Final Standings after World Cup 4 on 10 December 2017.[3] The "total" column began with 257 based on the maximum which the nation could be allocated from the individual distance allotments, and shrank to 184 by national team nominations and reallocation.[4][5] On 5 February, the final breakdown of 184 quotas was announced.[6]

NOC Men Women Total
500m 1,000m 1500m 5,000m 10,000m Team pursuit Mass start 500m 1,000m 1500m 3,000m 5,000m Team pursuit Mass start
 Australia 1 1 1
 Austria 1 1 1 1 1 2
 Belarus 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5
 Belgium 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3
 Canada 3 3 3 1 2 X 1 3 2 3 2 3 3 2 X 2 19
 China 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 X 2 13
 Chinese Taipei 1 1 1 1 1 3
 Colombia 1 1 1 2
 Czech Republic 1 2 2 2 1 1 3
 Denmark 2 1 3
 Estonia 1 1 1 2
 Finland 2 2 1 3
 France 1 1 1 1
 Germany 2 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 X 1 9
 Hungary 1 1 1
 Italy 1 1 2 3 2 X 1 2 1 1 1 2 9
 Japan 3 3 3 2 1 X 2 3 3 3 3 2 X 2 16
 Kazakhstan 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 6
 Latvia 1 1 1 1 1
 Netherlands 3 3 3 3 2 X 2 3 3 3 3 2 X 2 20
 New Zealand 2 1 1 X 2 3
 Norway 3 2 2 3 3 1 X 1 1 2 2 1 9
 Poland 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 3 3 X 2 14
 Olympic Athletes from Russia 3 3 3 1 3 1 2 3 2 3 2 3 1 2 2 1 X 2 3
 Romania 1 1
 South Korea 3 3 2 1 1 X 2 3 3 1 X 2 16
 Sweden 1 1 1
 Switzerland 1 1 1 1 2
 United States 3 3 3 2 X 2 3 3 3 1 1 X 2 13
Total: 29 NOCs 36 36 36 24 12 8 24 32 32 32 24 12 8 24 (184) 180

Reserves

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If a country rejects a quota spot or reduces its team then additional quotas become available. In case of reallocation of unused quotas places, priority will be given to NOC's that have not yet been allocated a quota place for the event. The NOCs that will thus have priority for reallocation of quota places for the respective events are marked with an asterisk (*) in the table below.

Men

Quota remaining to reallocate

500m

(4 confirmed)

1000m

(3 confirmed)

1500m

(3 confirmed)

5000m

(2 confirmed)

10,000m

(1 confirmed)

Mass start

(2 confirmed)

 Kazakhstan
 China
 Belgium *
 Finland
 Sweden *
 Germany
 Finland
 Sweden *
 Germany
 Norway
 Belgium *
 China *
 Germany
 South Korea
 China *
 Estonia *
 Belgium
 Chinese Taipei *
 Canada
 Poland *
 United States *
 Canada
 Japan
 Poland
 Japan *
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 Belgium *
 Norway
 France *
 Sweden *
 Italy
 Kazakhstan *
 Austria
 Poland
 Belarus *
 Colombia *
Women

Quota remaining to reallocate

500m

(2 confirmed)

1000m

(2 confirmed)

1500m

(2 confirmed)

3000m 5000m

(1 confirmed)

Mass start

(2 confirmed)

 Belarus *
 Norway
 Czech Republic
 Norway
 Romania *
 Poland
 Italy *
 Poland
 Italy
 Belarus *
 Czech Republic
 Norway
 Italy *
 South Korea *
 Germany
 Italy
 Belarus
 South Korea
 China
 South Korea *
 Germany
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 Belgium *
 United States
 Belgium *
 Czech Republic
 Italy *
 Germany
 Poland *
 Norway *
 Poland
 Great Britain *
 Czech Republic
 Austria
 Colombia *
 Belarus

Team Pursuit events

Unused Team Pursuit quota places may be provisionally reallocated to the next best placed team based on the Team Pursuit SOQC (Special Olympic Qualifying Classification), as per Rule 209, paragraph 2 d), as follows :

Men Team Pursuit Women Team Pursuit

(1 confirmed)

 Poland
 Olympic Athletes from Russia
 China
 United States
 Czech Republic
 Italy

References

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  1. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018". International Skating Union. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  2. ^ Thrope, George (27 June 2017). "Speed skating Olympic qualification times announced by ISU". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  3. ^ "ISU Speed skating qualification tables". International Skating Union. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  4. ^ "ISU Speed skating provisional allocation entry quotas". International Skating Union. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Communication No. 2136: XXIII Olympic Winter Games 2018 PyeongChang Entries Speed Skating". www.isu.org/. International Skating Union (ISU). 20 December 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Number of Entries by NOC" (PDF). PyeongChang 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2018.