02/20/98 Women's 5000m, Claudia Pechstein (GER) - gold 
02/20/98 Women's 5000m, Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (GER) - silver 
02/20/98 Women's 5000m, Claudia Pechstein (GER) - gold 
02/19/98 1000m, Marianne Timmer (NED) - gold, Christine Witty (USA) - silver, Catriona LeMay-Doan (CAN) - bronze 
02/16/98 Women's 1500m. G. Niemann-Stirnemann (GER) - silver 
02/15/98 Men's 1000m, Ids Postma - gold 
02/15/98 Men's 1000m, Ids Postma (NED) - gold 
02/15/98 Men's 1000m - Ids Postma - gold, Jan Bos (NED) - silver, Shimizu Hiroyasu (JPN) - bronze 
02/14/98 Women's T. Okazaki (JPN) - bronze, C. LeMay-Doan (CAN) - gold, S. Auch (CAN) - silver 
02/14/98 Women's 500m, S. Auch (CAN) - silver, C. LeMay-Doan (CAN) - gold, T. Okazaki (JPN) - bronze 
02/13/98 Women's 500m, Andrea Nuyt (NED) 
02/13/98 Women's 500m, Edel Therese Hoiseth (NOR) 
02/12/98 Men's 1500m 
02/12/98 Men's 1500m, Rintje Ritsma (NED) 
02/12/98 Men's 1500m, Kevin Overland (CAN) 
02/11/98 Women's 3000m, Mie Uehara (JPN) 
02/10/98 Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) gold in Men's 500m 
02/10/98 Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) gold in Men's 500m 
02/10/98 Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) gold in Men's 500m 
02/10/98 Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) gold in Men's 500m 
02/09/98 Men's 500m first run, H.Shimizu (JPN) 
02/10/98 Hiroyasu Shimizu waves 
02/08/98 Gianni Romme (NED) gold in Men's 5000m 
02/08/98 Men's 5000m, Bart Veldkamp (BEL) |
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Men's 500m
Hiroyasu Shimizu of Japan won the gold. His combined time was 1 minute, 11.35 seconds. The time was a new Olympic record. Canadian Jeremy Wotherspoon won the silver. He finished in 1 minute, 11.84 seconds. Kevin Overland of Canada won the bronze with a time of 1 minute, 11.86 seconds. Men's 500m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan 1:11.35 2 Jeremy Wotherspoon Canada 1:11.84 3 Kevin Overland Canada 1:11.86 4 Sylvain Bouchard Canada 1:12.00 5 Patrick Bouchard Canada 1:12.05 
Canadians
finished 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th in this event. Jeremy Wotherspoon of Red Deer
won the silver with a great second run. Kevin Overland won the bronze. Sylvain
Bouchard was fourth and Patrick Bouchard finished in fifth place.
Men's 1000m Ids Postma of the Netherlands won the men's 1000 metre event. He finished in a time of 1 minute, 10.64 seconds. Postma's time was an Olympic record. Jan Bos of the Netherlands won the silver with a time of 1 minute, 10.71 seconds. He was only seven hundredths of a second behind Postma. Japan's Hiroyasu Shimizu won the bronze with a time of 1 minute, 11 seconds. 18 skaters were each faster than the previous Olympic record due to the new clap skates. Men's 1000m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Ids Postma Netherlands 1:10.64 2 Jan Bos Netherlands 1:10.71 3 Hiroyasu Shimizu Japan 1:11.00 4 Jakko Jan Leeuwangh Netherlands 1:11.26 5 Sylvain Bouchard Canada 1:11.29Canadians: Sylvain Bouchard was fifth and only 29 tenths of a second from bronze. Jeremy Wotherspoon was sixth and Kevin Overland tied for ninth. All three were faster than the previous Olympic record. Patrick Bouchard finished in 19th spot. Men's 1500m Aadne Sondral of Norway won the 1500 metre gold. His time of 1 minute, 47.87 seconds was a new world record. Ids Postma of the Netherlands won the silver. He was clearly ahead until he clipped a side marker on his final lap. Rintje Ritsma was on pace halfway through the race for gold but he couldn't keep up and wound up third. Men's 1500m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Aadne Sondral Norway 1:47.87 2 Ids Postma Netherlands 1:48.13 3 Rintje Ritsma Netherlands 1:48.52 4 Jan Bos Netherlands 1:49.75 5 K.C. Boutiette United States 1:50.04Canadians: Kevin Overland was 20th, Steve Elm was 25th, Kevin Marshall placed 26th, and Neal Marshall finished 30th. Men's 5000m Gianni Romme of the Netherlands won the gold medal. He blew everyone away with a time of 6 minutes, 22.20 seconds. This was a new world record. Rintje Ritsma of the Netherlands was second. He broke Belgian Bart Veldkamp's new world record time of 6 minutes, 28.31 seconds. Veldkamp held the world record for 25 minutes but it was good enough for only bronze. Ritsma also held the world record with his time of 6 minutes, 28.24 seconds before Romme took it back. Men's 5000m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Gianni Romme Netherlands 6:22.20 2 Rintje Ritsma Netherlands 6:28.24 3 Bart Veldkamp Belgium 6:28.31 4 Bob De Jong Netherlands 6:31.37 5 Frank Dittrich Germany 6:32.17Canadians: Steve Elm was 23rd and Mark Knoll finished in 24th spot. Men's 10 000m Gianni Romme of the Netherlands won the gold. His time of 13 minutes, 15.33 seconds broke the world record. Romme was more than ten seconds faster than the second place finisher. Bob de Jong of the Netherlands won the silver with a time of 13 minutes, 25.76 seconds. Rintje Ritsma completed the Dutch sweep with a bronze medal. Men's 10000m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Gianni Romme Netherlands 13:15.33 2 Bob De Jong Netherlands 13:25.76 3 Rintje Ritsma Netherlands 13:28.19 4 Bart Veldkamp Belgium 13:29.69 5 Kjell Storelid Norway 13:35.95There were no Canadians in this event. Women's 500m Canadian Catriona LeMay-Doan won the gold. She set an Olympic record with her second round lap of 38.21 seconds. LeMay-Doan's combined time was 1 minute, 60.60 seconds. Susan Auch of Canada won the silver. She finished in 1 minute, 16.93 seconds. Tomomi Okazaki of Japan won the bronze with a time of 1 minute, 17.10 seconds. Women's 500m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Catriona LeMay-Doan Canada 1:16.60 2 Susan Auch Canada 1:16.93 3 Tomomi Okazaki Japan 1:17.10 4 Franziska Schenk Germany 1:17.45 5 Kyoko Shimazaki Japan 1:17.68 
Canadians:
Catriona LeMay-Doan won the gold. She led after the first race and also won
the second. LeMay-Doan, already the world record holder, also broke the Olympic record.
Susan Auch won the silver medal. She was second after the first run behind LeMay-Doan. Auch was also the silver medallist in this event last Olympics. Linda Johnson-Blair was 13th and Michelle Morton was 33rd. Women's 1000m Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands won the gold. She set an Olympic record with a time of 1 minute, 16.51 seconds. The United States' Chris Witty was second with a time of 1 minute, 16.79 seconds. Canadian Catriona LeMay-Doan was third. Women's 1000m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Marianne Timmer Netherlands 1:16.51 2 Chris Witty United States 1:16.79 3 Catriona LeMay-Doan Canada 1:17.37 4 Sabine Voelker Germany 1:17.54 5 Annamarie Thomas Netherlands 1:17.95
Canadians:
Catriona LeMay-Doan won the bronze with a time of 1 minute, 17.37 seconds.
She held the Olympic record for a few minutes before Timmer broke it. Susan
Auch was 18th, Linda Johnson-Blair placed 21st, and Sylvie Cantin finished 33rd.
Women's 1500m Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands surprisingly won this event. She also broke the world record with a time of 1 minute, 57.58 seconds. Timmer didn't finish once in the top three this World Cup season. German Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann won the silver medal. She skated last and finished in 1 minute, 58.66 seconds. Chris Witty of the United States won the bronze. Women's 1500m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Marianne Timmer Netherlands 1:57.58 2 Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany 1:58.66 3 Chris Witty United States 1:58.97 4 Emese Hunyady Austria 1:59.19 5 Anna Friesinger Germany 1:59.20Canadians: The previous world record holder Catriona LeMay-Doan placed 13th. Ingrid Liepa was 24th and Isabella Doucet placed 29th. Cindy Overland did not start due to tonsillitis. Women's 3000m German Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann won the gold. She set an Olympic record with a time of 4 minutes, 07.29 seconds. Claudia Pechstein of Germany won silver with a time of 4 minutes, 08.47 seconds. Anna Friesinger completed the German sweep with the bronze. Women's 3000m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany 4:07.29 2 Claudia Pechstein Germany 4:08.47 3 Anna Friesinger Germany 4:09.44 4 Jennifer Rodriguez United States 4:11.64 5 Emese Hunyady Austria 4:12.01Canadians: Cindy Overland was 19th, Susan Massitti placed 21st, and Ingrid Liepa finished 25th. Women's 5000m Claudia Pechstein of Germany won the gold. She broke the world record and finished in 6 minutes, 59.61 seconds. German Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann became the first woman to break the seven minute mark and held the world record for a few minutes with a time of 6 minutes, 59.65 seconds. However, Pechstein was four-hundredths of a second better. Lyudmila Prokasheva of Kazakhstan won the bronze. Niemann-Stirnemann equaled the Winter Olympic record of eight individual medals with the silver. Women's 5000m Final Results PLACE ATHLETE COUNTRY TIME ===== ======= ======= ==== 1 Claudia Pechstein Germany 6:59.61 2 Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann Germany 6:59.65 3 Lyudmila Prokasheva Kazakhstan 7:11.14 4 Barbara de Loor Netherlands 7:11.81 5 Tonny de Jong Netherlands 7:12.77There were no Canadians in this event. 
02/15/98 Men's 1000m, Ids Postma (NED) - gold 
02/12/98 Men's 1500m, Kevin Overland (CAN) Back to Main |
