Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Zetra Ice Rink
Dates	9–18 February 1984
No. of events	9
Competitors	139 from 24 nations
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Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics was held from 9 to 18 February. Nine events were contested at Zetra Ice Rink.^[1][2]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	4	4	3	11
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	3	4	9
3	Canada (CAN)	2	0	1	3
4	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	0	2
5	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
6	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		9	9	9	27

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 won his country's first Olympic medal in speed skating.

East Germany's Karin Enke 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 was the most successful male skater, with two gold medals and a bronze.

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Sergey Fokichev  Soviet Union	38.19	Yoshihiro Kitazawa  Japan	38.30	Gaétan Boucher  Canada	38.39
1000 metres details	Gaétan Boucher  Canada	1:15.80	Sergey Khlebnikov  Soviet Union	1:16.63	Kai Arne Engelstad  Norway	1:16.75
1500 metres details	Gaétan Boucher  Canada	1:58.36	Sergey Khlebnikov  Soviet Union	1:58.83	Oleg Bozhev  Soviet Union	1:58.89
5000 metres details	Tomas Gustafson  Sweden	7:12.28	Igor Malkov  Soviet Union	7:12.30	René Schöfisch  East Germany	7:17.49
10,000 metres details	Igor Malkov  Soviet Union	14:39.90	Tomas Gustafson  Sweden	14:39.95	René Schöfisch  East Germany	14:46.91

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Christa Rothenburger  East Germany	41.02 (OR)	Karin Enke  East Germany	41.28	Natalya Glebova  Soviet Union	41.50
1000 metres details	Karin Enke  East Germany	1:21.61 (OR)	Andrea Schöne  East Germany	1:22.83	Nataliya Petrusyova  Soviet Union	1:23.21
1500 metres details	Karin Enke  East Germany	2:03.42 WR	Andrea Schöne  East Germany	2:05.29	Nataliya Petrusyova  Soviet Union	2:05.78
3000 metres details	Andrea Schöne  East Germany	4:24.79 (OR)	Karin Enke  East Germany	4:26.33	Gabi Zange  East Germany	4:33.13

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.^[3][4]

Event	Date	Team	Time	OR	WR
Women's 500 metres	10 February	Christa Rothenburger (GDR)	41.02	OR
Women's 1000 metres	13 February	Karin Enke (GDR)	1:21.61	OR
Women's 1500 metres	9 February	Karin Enke (GDR)	2:03.42	OR	WR
Women's 3000 metres	15 February	Andrea Schone (GDR)	4:24.79	OR

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[]