| Event: | Speed skating |
| Games: | 1992 Winter |
| Num Events: | 10 |
| Venue: | L'anneau de vitesse |
| Dates: | 9–20 February 1992 |
| Competitors: | 154 |
| Nations: | 23 |
| Prev: | 1988 |
| Next: | 1994 |
Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics, was held from 9 to 20 February. Ten events were contested at L'anneau de vitesse. It was the last time in Winter Olympics in which speed skating events were contested in an outdoor ice rink.[1] [2]
Germany, in its first Olympics since reunification, topped the medal table with five gold medals, and eleven total medals. All the medals were won by athletes from the former East Germany. Germany's Gunda Niemann led the individual medal table with two golds and a silver, and Norway's Johan Olav Koss was the most successful male skater, with one gold and one silver.
South Korea's Kim Yoon-Man and China's Ye Qiaobo became the first ever medalists for their countries at the Winter Olympics. Bonnie Blair collected two gold medals to become the second most successful female speed skater of the games.
| 500 metres | 37.14 | 37.18 | 37.26 | ||||
| 1000 metres | 1:14.85 | 1:14.86 | 1:14.92 | ||||
| 1500 metres | 1:54.81 | 1:54.85 | 1:54.90 | ||||
| 5000 metres | 6:59.97 | 7:02.28 | 7:04.96 | ||||
| 10,000 metres | 14:12.12 | 14:14.58 | 14:18.13 |
| 500 metres | 40.33 | 40.51 | 40.57 | ||||
| 1000 metres | 1:21.90 | 1:21.92 | 1:22.10 | ||||
| 1500 metres | 2:05.87 | 2:05.92 | 2:06.88 | ||||
| 3000 metres | 4:19.90 | 4:22.88 | 4:24.64 | ||||
| 5000 metres | 7:31.57 | 7:37.59 | 7:39.80 |
There were no Olympic or World records set at the 1992 Games, as the outdoor rink in Albertville (as of today the last speed skating outdoor rink in Winter Games history) was not conducive to fast times.[3] [4]
Twenty-three nations competed in the speed skating events at Albertville. The Unified Team was in essence a Soviet team under a different name as the USSR collapsed several months prior to the Games' start.