List of world records in speed skating

This list of speed skating records is an overview of the current speed skating records in its various events ratified by the International Skating Union.

World record progression

World records

Men

Event	Name	Country	Result	Date	Place	Average speed	Meeting
500 meters Progression	Pavel Kulizhnikov	Russia	33.98	20 November 2015	Salt Lake City	52.97 km/h (32.91 mph)	World Cup
500 meters × 2	Pavel Kulizhnikov	Russia	1:08.11	13–15 November 2015	Calgary	52.86 km/h (32.85 mph)	World Cup
1000 meters Progression	Shani Davis	United States	1:06.42	7 March 2009	Salt Lake City	54.20 km/h (33.68 mph)
1500 meters Progression	Shani Davis	United States	1:41.04	11 December 2009	Salt Lake City	53.44 km/h (33.21 mph)
3000 meters Progression	Eskil Ervik	Norway	3:37.28**	5 November 2005	Calgary	49.71 km/h (30.89 mph)
5000 meters Progression	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:03.32	17 November 2007	Calgary	49.54 km/h (30.78 mph)
10000 meters Progression	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	12:36.30	21 November 2015	Salt Lake City	47.60 km/h (29.58 mph)	World Cup
Team pursuit (8 laps) Progression	Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen	Netherlands	3:35.60	16 November 2013	Salt Lake City	51.73 km/h (32.14 mph) ***
Sprint combination	Michel Mulder	Netherlands	136.790 points	26–27 January 2013	Salt Lake City
Small combination	Erben Wennemars	Netherlands	146.365 points	13 August 2005	Calgary
Big combination	Shani Davis	United States	145.742 points	18–19 March 2006	Calgary
One hour *	Erik Jan Kooiman	Netherlands	43,735.94 m	9 December 2015	Inzell	43.73 km/h (27.17 mph)

• * unofficial world best
• ** During the course of a 5000 m race on 17 November 2013 in Salt Lake City, Russian skater Denis Yuskov recorded a 3000 m split time at 3:36.40. Yuskov also recorded a 3000 m time of 3:34.37 during a training race held on 2 November 2013. However, neither of these times count as the world record. The former because it was a split time, and not an official 3000 m race, the latter because it was ridden in a so-called 'quartet-start' (four riders on the track at the same time as opposed to the usual two) which means the time is ineligible to be counted as a world record under Article 221(2)(i) of the rules of the International Skating Union.

For comparison, the fastest known 400 m lap was skated by Pavel Kulizhnikov on 20 November 2015 in Salt Lake City during his 500 meter world record race in 24.31 seconds with an average speed of 59.23 km/h (36.80 mph).

Women

Event	Name	Country	Result	Date	Place	Average speed	Meeting
500 meters Progression	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	36.36	16 November 2013	Salt Lake City	49.50 km/h (30.76 mph)
500 meters × 2	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	1:12.93	15–16 November 2013	Salt Lake City	49.36 km/h (30.67 mph)
1000 meters Progression	Brittany Bowe	United States	1:12.18	22 November 2015	Salt Lake City		World Cup
1500 meters Progression	Heather Richardson	United States	1:50.85	21 November 2015	Salt Lake City	48.35 km/h (30.04 mph)	World Cup
3000 meters Progression	Cindy Klassen	Canada	3:53.34	18 March 2006	Calgary	46.28 km/h (28.76 mph)
5000 meters Progression	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	6:42.66	18 February 2011	Salt Lake City	44.70 km/h (27.78 mph)
10000 meters Progression	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	13:48.33	15 March 2007	Calgary	43.46 km/h (27.00 mph)
Team pursuit (6 laps)	Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Brittany Schussler	Canada	2:55.79	6 December 2009	Calgary	47.60 km/h (29.58 mph) ***
Sprint combination	Heather Richardson	United States	147.735 points	19–20 January 2013	Calgary
Mini combination	Cindy Klassen	Canada	155.576 points	15–17 March 2001	Calgary
Small combination	Cindy Klassen	Canada	154.580 points	18–19 March 2006	Calgary
100 meters *	Jenny Wolf	Germany	10.21	7 March 2009	Salt Lake City
One hour *	Carien Kleibeuker	Netherlands	40,569.68 m	9 December 2015	Inzell	40.56 km/h (25.20 mph)

For comparison, the fastest known 400 m lap of 25.94 s was skated by Zhang Hong during a 500 m race in Salt Lake City on 20 November 2015 with an average speed of 55.51 km/h (34.49 mph).

• * unofficial world best
• *** The average speed for the team pursuit races was calculated using a distance of 3098,88 meters for the men's race and 2324,16 meters for the women's race. The skaters only utilise the inner lane and the lap distance is accordingly less than the 400 meters of a regular lap skated with one inner curve and one outer curve.

Sea level world bests

Salt Lake City and Calgary, where currently all world records were made, are at relatively high altitude. Since speed skating is easier at high altitudes, skating statisticians keeps separate lists for skating at (or close to) sea level, where times in Salt Lake City and Calgary are ignored.

Men

Event	Name	Country	Result	Date	Place	Ref
500 meters	Michel Mulder Jeremy Wotherspoon	Netherlands Canada	34.31	29 December 2013 26 January 2008	Heerenveen Hamar
500 meters × 2	Pavel Kulizhnikov	Russia	1:08.931	15 February 2015	Heerenveen
1000 meters	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1:08.25	2 November 2014	Heerenveen
1500 meters	Denis Yuskov	Russia	1:43.36	13 February 2015	Heerenveen
3000 meters	Wouter olde Heuvel	Netherlands	3:39.36	26 November 2011	Astana
5000 meters	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:09.65	14 February 2015	Heerenveen
10000 meters	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12:44.45	18 February 2014	Sochi

Women

Event	Name	Country	Result	Date	Place	Ref
500 meters	Heather Richardson	United States	37.24	9 January 2015	Milwaukee
500 meters × 2	Lee Sang-hwa	South Korea	1:14.59	30 November 2013	Astana
1000 meters	Brittany Bowe	United States	1:13.81	11 January 2015	Milwaukee
1500 meters	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	1:53.31	30 December 2013	Heerenveen
3000 meters	Ireen Wüst	Netherlands	3:58.68	9 March 2013	Heerenveen
5000 meters	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	6:49.31	11 February 2007	Heerenveen

External links

• ISU web site
• World Records
• Speed skating statistics by Evert Stenlund