2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

The 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships took place between 22 and 25 March 2012 in the Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands.

World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Thialf (Heerenveen)
Venue	Thialf (Heerenveen)
Dates	22–25 March 2012
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands visited the Championships on 24 March.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Time	Events
March 22	16:30	1500 m men
		3000 m women
March 23	15:00	1000 m men
		1500 m women
		5000 m men
March 24	12:00	1000 m women
		10000 m men
		5000 m women
March 25	13:30	500 m women
		500 m men
		Team pursuit women
		Team pursuit men

Source: schaatsen.nl^[2]& ISU.org^[3]

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	69.64	Michel Mulder  Netherlands	+0.01	Pekka Koskela  Finland	+0.18
1000 m details	Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands	1:08.57	Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands	+0.22	Shani Davis  United States	+0.26
1500 m details	Denny Morrison  Canada	1:46.44	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	+0.05	Håvard Bøkko  Norway	+0.06
5000 m details	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:13.87	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	+1.39	Jonathan Kuck  United States	+2.41
10000 m details	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	12:53.91	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	+3.80	Jonathan Kuck  United States	+18.75
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen	3:41.43	United States Shani Davis Brian Hansen Jonathan Kuck	+1.99	Russia Ivan Skobrev Denis Yuskov Yevgeny Lalenkov	+2.19

Source: ISU^[4]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	75.69	Yu Jing  China	+0.43	Thijsje Oenema  Netherlands	+0.59
1000 m details	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:15.16	Yu Jing  China	+0.82	Margot Boer  Netherlands	+1.00
1500 m details	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	1:56.07	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	+0.33	Linda de Vries  Netherlands	+1.01
3000 m details	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	4:01.88	Stephanie Beckert  Germany	+2.21	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	+2.99
5000 m details	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:50.46	Stephanie Beckert  Germany	+6.18	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	+13.55
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Ireen Wüst Diane Valkenburg Linda de Vries	2:59.70	Canada Brittany Schussler Christine Nesbitt Cindy Klassen	+0.81	Poland Natalia Czerwonka Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	+3.62

Source: ISU^[4]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	5	5	4	14
2	Canada (CAN)	3	1	0	4
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	0	2
	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	0	2
5	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
6	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
7	United States (USA)	0	1	3	4
8	Russia (RUS)	0	1	1	2
9	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36