2000 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships Explained

Event:	World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
Venue:	M-Wave (Nagano)
Dates:	3–5 March 2000
Prev:	1999 Heerenveen
Next:	2001 Kearns

The 2000 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships were held between 3 and 5 March 2000 in the M-Wave, Nagano, Japan.

Schedule

Date	Events
March 3	5000 m men
	500 m women (1st)
	500 m women (2nd)
	3000 m women
March 4	500 m men (1st)
	500 m men (2nd)
	1500 m men
	1000 m women
	5000 m women
March 5	1000 m men
	10000 m men
	1500 m women

Medal summary

Men's events

500 m ^[1]	Hiroyasu Shimizu	1:10.49 35.30 35.19	Mike Ireland	1:11.14 35.80 35.34	Jeremy Wotherspoon	1:11.38 35.75 35.62
1000 m ^[2]	Ådne Søndrål	1:09.96	Jan Bos	1:09.98	Mike Ireland	1:10.58
1500 m ^[3]	Ids Postma	1:47.98	Ådne Søndrål	1:48.61	Jan Bos	1:48.66
5000 m ^[4]	Gianni Romme	6:23.31	Bob de Jong	6:25.40	Keiji Shirahata	6:31.16
10000 m ^[5]	Gianni Romme	13:12.27	Bob de Jong	13:21.74	Frank Dittrich	13:27.93

Women's events

500 m ^[6]	Monique Garbrecht	1:17.48 38.78 38.70	Svetlana Zhurova	1:17.64 38.79 38.85	Catriona Le May Doan	1:17.78 38.96 38.82
1000 m ^[7]	Monique Garbrecht	1:16.59	Marianne Timmer	1:16.71	Chris Witty	1:17.28
1500 m ^[8]	Claudia Pechstein	1:58.43	Anni Friesinger	1:58.62	Emese Hunyady	1:58.97
3000 m ^[9]	Claudia Pechstein	4:05.68	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	4:05.75	Maki Tabata	4:09.18
5000 m ^[10]	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann	6:58.71	Claudia Pechstein	7:00.68	Tonny de Jong	7:06.30

Medal table

References

1. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 500 meters Men. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
2. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 1000 meters Men. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
3. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 1500 meters Men. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
4. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 5000 meters Men. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
5. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 10,000 meters Men. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
6. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 500 meters Women. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
7. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 1000 meters Women. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
8. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 1500 meters Women. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
9. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 3000 meters Women. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.
10. Web site: 2000 World Championship Single Distances 5000 meters Women. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 25 August 2012.