- Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
At the
2002 Winter Olympics , ten speed skating events were contested.Men's Events
500 m
In reverse order of the 5000 m, Uytdehaage first breaks the world record, which is later bettered by Parra, who wins the third US skating gold of the Games. He is the first Mexican-American to medal in a winter sport.
5,000 m
World Record holder Catriona LeMay-Doan retains her Olympic title by beating 4 time World Sprint Champion Monique Garbrecht.
1,000 m
Pechstein wins the Gold medal at this distance after winning two bronzes and a silver medal in previous Olympics. Favorite
Anni Friesinger finishes fourth, while all medalists break the former world record.5,000 m
Claudia Pechstein wins the Gold Medal in each of the three times that this distance has been skated by women in the Olympics (1994-2002), and wins some medal in four consecutive Winter Games (1992-2002). Clara Hughes and Gretha Smit surprise by ending up on the podium too. The latter, breaking the world record in her race, only started competing in long track skating this year, although she and her sisters have proven almost unbeatable in
marathon skating , which is performed in groups.List of participants by nation
=Austria=#
Emese Hunyady
=Belarus=#
Svetlana Chepelnikova
#Aleksey Khatylyov
#Anzhelika Kotyuga
#Igor Makovetski
#Svetlana Radkevich
=Belgium=#
Bart Veldkamp
=Canada=#
Susan Auch
#Pat Bouchard
#Éric Brisson
#Steven Elm
#Kristina Groves
#Clara Hughes
#Mike Ireland
#Cindy Klassen
#Mark Knoll
#Catriona LeMay Doan
#Philippe Marois
#Kevin Marshall
#Dustin Molicki
#Cindy Overland
#Jeremy Wotherspoon
=PR China=#
Gao Yang
#Jin Hua
# Li Yu
#Liu Guangbin
#Ma Yongbin
#Song Li
#Wang Manli
#Xing Aihua
#Yang Chunyuan
#You Yanchun
#Yu Fengtong
#Zhang Xiaolei #
David Kramár
=Finland=#
Janne Hänninen
#Risto Rosendahl
#Vesa Rosendahl
=France=#
Cédric Kuentz
=Germany=#
Daniela Anschütz
#Jens Boden
#Christian Breuer
#Frank Dittrich
# Monique Enfeldt-Garbrecht
#Anni Friesinger
#Jan Friesinger
#Michael Künzel
#Claudia Pechstein
#René Taubenrauch
#Sabine Völker
#Marion Wohlrab
#Jenny Wolf
=Hungary=#
Zsolt Baló
#Krisztina Egyed
=Italy=#
Davide Carta
#Stefano Donagrandi
#Enrico Fabris
#Dino Gillarduzzi
#Ermanno Ioriatti
#Nicola Mayr
#Roberto Sighel
#Chiara Simionato
=Japan=#
Kuniomi Haneishi
#Hiroki Hirako
#Manabu Horii
#Yusuke Imai
#Toshihiko Itokawa
#Yayoi Nagaoka
#Takaharu Nakajima
#Nami Nemoto
#Hiroyuki Noake
#Yuri Obara
#Tomomi Okazaki
#Sayuri Osuga
#Eriko Sanmiya
#Eriko Seo
#Hiroyasu Shimizu
#Keiji Shirahata
#Maki Tabata
#Toyoki Takeda
#Aki Tonoike
#Yukari Watanabe #
Radik Bikchentayev
#Anzhelika Gavrilova
#Sergey Ilyushchenko
#Vladimir Kostin
#Lyudmila Prokasheva
#Marina Pupina
#Sergey Tsybenko
#Nikolay Ulyanin
=Latvia=#
Ilonda Lūse #
Jan Bos
#Renate Groenewold
#Bob de Jong
#Tonny de Jong
#Andrea Nuyt
#Ids Postma
#Rintje Ritsma
#Gianni Romme
#Gretha Smit
#Annamarie Thomas
#Marianne Timmer
#Jochem Uytdehaage
#Gerard van Velde
#Carl Verheijen
#Marja Vis
#Erben Wennemars
#Marieke Wijsman
=Norway=#
Petter Andersen
#Stian Bjørge
#Eskil Ervik
#Grunde Njøs
#Lasse Sætre
#Ådne Søndrål
#Kjell Storelid
=Poland=#
Tomasz Świst
#Paweł Abratkiewicz
#Katarzyna Wójcicka
#Paweł Zygmunt
=Romania=#
Andreea Jakab
#Daniela Oltean
=Russia=#
Varvara Barysheva
#Dmitry Dorofeyev
#Svetlana Kaykan
#Aleksandr Kibalko
#Sergey Klevchenya
#Yuri Kokhanets
#Yevgeni Lalenkov
#Dmitry Lobkov
#Vadim Sayutin
#Dmitry Shepel
#Tatyana Trapeznikova
#Valentina Yakshina
#Svetlana Zhurova #
Baek Eun-Bi
#Choi Jae-Bong
#Choi Seung-Yong
#Choi Yun-Suk
#Jo Seon-Yeon
#Kim Cheol-Su
#Lee Kyu-Hyeok
#Lee Seung-Hwan
#Lee Yong-Ju
#Mun Jun
#Park Jae-Man
#Yeo Sang-Yeop
=Sweden=#
Johan Röjler
=Ukraine=#
Andriy Fomin
#Olena Myahkikh #
KC Boutiette
#Kip Carpenter
#Joey Cheek
#Ann Driscoll
#Casey FitzRandolph
#Jason Hedstrand
#Elli Ochowicz
#Derek Parra
#Nick Pearson
#Marc Pelchat
#Catherine Raney
#Jennifer Rodriguez
#Amy Sannes
#JP Shilling
#Becky Sundstrom
#Jondon Trevena
#Chris Witty References
* [http://www.skateresults.com/tournament/events/726 SkateResults]
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