2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

The 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships took place between 21 and 24 March 2013 in the Adler Arena, Sochi, Russia. It was a test event for the 2014 Olympic Games.^[1]

World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Adler Arena (Sochi)
Dates	21–24 March 2013
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Schedule

Date	Time	Events
21 March	16:35	1500 m men
	17:30	3000 m women
22 March	15:00	1000 m men
	15:51	1500 m women
	16:53	5000 m men
23 March	13:30	1000 m women
	14:25	10000 m men
	17:35	5000 m women
24 March	15:00	500 m women
		500 m men
	18:06	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	69.760 TR	Joji Kato  Japan	+0.06	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	+0.10
1000 m details	Denis Kuzin  Kazakhstan	1:09.14 TR	Mo Tae-bum  South Korea	+0.10	Shani Davis  United States	+0.16
1500 m details	Denis Yuskov  Russia	1:46.32 TR	Shani Davis  United States	+0.51	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	+0.65
5000 m details	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	6:14.41 TR	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	+3.53	Ivan Skobrev  Russia	+3.90
10000 m details	Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands	12:57.69 TR	Sven Kramer  Netherlands	+2.02	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	+2.57
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen Sven Kramer Koen Verweij	3:42.03 TR	South Korea Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	+2.57	Poland Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański	+3.19

Source: ISU^[4]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details	Lee Sang-hwa  South Korea	75.347 TR	Wang Beixing  China	+0.70	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	+0.75
1000 m details	Olga Fatkulina  Russia	1:15.44 TR	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	+0.27	Brittany Bowe  United States	+0.43
1500 m details	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	1:55.38 TR	Lotte van Beek  Netherlands	+2.64	Christine Nesbitt  Canada	+2.69
3000 m details	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	4:02.43 TR	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	+2.37	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	+5.32
5000 m details	Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic	6:54.31 TR	Ireen Wüst  Netherlands	+8.65	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	+9.76
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg Ireen Wüst	3:00.02 TR	Poland Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś Natalia Czerwonka Luiza Złotkowska	+4.89	South Korea Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong Park Do-yeong	+5.30

Source: ISU^[4]

Medal table

The gold medal

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	6	5	2	13
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
3	Russia (RUS)	2	0	3	5
4	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	0	2
5	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	0	1
6	United States (USA)	0	1	2	3
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
8	China (CHN)	0	1	0	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
10	Germany (GER)	0	0	2	2
11	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36