World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships for Men explained

The International Skating Union has organised the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1996.

See also: World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships for Women.

Locations

• 1996: Hamar, Norway
• 1997: Warsaw, Poland
• 1998: Calgary, Canada
• 1999: Heerenveen, Netherlands
• 2000: Nagano, Japan
• 2001: Salt Lake City, United States
• 2002 Not held because of the Winter Olympic Games
• 2003: Berlin, Germany
• 2004: Seoul, South Korea
• 2005: Inzell, Germany
• 2006 Not held because of the Winter Olympic Games
• 2007: Salt Lake City, United States
• 2008: Nagano, Japan
• 2009: Vancouver, Canada
• 2010 Not held because of the Winter Olympic Games
• 2011: Inzell, Germany
• 2012: Heerenveen, Netherlands
• 2013: Sochi, Russia
• 2014 Not held because of the Winter Olympic Games
• 2015: Heerenveen, Netherlands
• 2016: Kolomna, Russia
• 2017: Gangneung, South Korea
• 2018 Not held because of the Winter Olympic Games
• 2019: Inzell, Germany
• 2020: Salt Lake City, United States
• 2021: Heerenveen, Netherlands
• 2022 Not held because of the Winter Olympic Games
• 2023: Heerenveen, Netherlands
• 2024: Calgary, Canada

Medal winners

Numbers in brackets denotes number of victories in corresponding disciplines. Boldface denotes record number of victories.

500 m

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
1996			Roger Strøm
1997			Hiroyasu Shimizu
1998			Jeremy Wotherspoon
1999			Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
2000		Mike Ireland	Jeremy Wotherspoon
2001	Hiroyasu Shimizu (5)		Casey FitzRandolph
2003			Erben Wennemars
2004			Mike Ireland
2005			Jeremy Wotherspoon
2007			Tucker Fredricks
2008	Jeremy Wotherspoon (3)		Joji Kato
2009	Lee Kang-seok (2)		Yu Fengtong
2011			Jan Smeekens
2012			Pekka Koskela
2013	Mo Tae-bum (2)		Jan Smeekens
2015			Laurent Dubreuil
2016			Alex Boisvert-Lacroix
2017			Ruslan Murashov
2019			Viktor Mushtakov
2020	Pavel Kulizhnikov (3)		Tatsuya Shinhama
2021			Dai Dai N'tab
2023			Wataru Morishige
2024	Jordan Stolz (2)		Damian Żurek

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[1]

Medal table

1,000 m

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
1996			Jaegal Sung-yeol
1997			Martin Hersman
1998			Hiroyasu Shimizu
1999			Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
2000	Ådne Søndrål (2)		Mike Ireland
2001			Sergey Klevchenya
2003			Joey Cheek
2004	Erben Wennemars (2)		Masaaki Kobayashi
2005			Petter Andersen Pekka Koskela
2007			Lee Kyou-hyuk
2008			Denny Morrison
2009			Shani Davis
2011			Stefan Groothuis
2012			Shani Davis
2013			Shani Davis
2015	Shani Davis (4)		Kjeld Nuis
2016			Kjeld Nuis
2017			Kai Verbij
2019			Kjeld Nuis
2020	Pavel Kulizhnikov (2)		Laurent Dubreuil
2021	Kai Verbij (2)		Laurent Dubreuil
2023			Cornelius Kersten
2024	Jordan Stolz (2)		Kjeld Nuis

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[2]

Medal table

1,500 m

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
1996			Martin Hersman
1997			Neal Marshall
1998			Roberto Sighel
1999			Rintje Ritsma
2000	Ids Postma (2)		Jan Bos
2001	Ådne Søndrål (2)		Erben Wennemars
2003			Joey Cheek
2004			Erben Wennemars
2005			Even Wetten
2007			Denny Morrison
2008		Shani Davis Sven Kramer	none awarded
2009	Shani Davis (3)		Denny Morrison
2011			Lucas Makowsky
2012	Denny Morrison (2)		Håvard Bøkko
2013			Ivan Skobrev
2015			Koen Verweij
2016	Denis Yuskov (3)		Thomas Krol
2017			Sven Kramer
2019			Denis Yuskov
2020	Kjeld Nuis (2)		Joey Mantia
2021	Thomas Krol (2)		Patrick Roest
2023			Thomas Krol
2024	Jordan Stolz (2)		Peder Kongshaug

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[3]

Medal table

5,000 m

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
1996			Gianni Romme
1997			Frank Dittrich
1998			Bart Veldkamp
1999			Bob de Jong
2000	Gianni Romme (3)		Keiji Shirahata
2001			Gianni Romme
2003			Carl Verheijen
2004			Gianni Romme
2005	Chad Hedrick (2)		Carl Verheijen
2007			Carl Verheijen
2008			Wouter olde Heuvel
2009			Trevor Marsicano
2011	Bob de Jong (2)		Ivan Skobrev
2012			Jonathan Kuck
2013			Ivan Skobrev
2015			Douwe de Vries
2016			Sverre Lunde Pedersen
2017	Sven Kramer (8)		Peter Michael
2019			Sven Kramer
2020			Graeme Fish
2021			RSU Sergey Trofimov
2023			Bart Swings
2024	Patrick Roest (2)		Sander Eitrem

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[4]

Medal table

10,000 m

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
1996			Frank Dittrich
1997			Bob de Jong
1998			Frank Dittrich
1999			Frank Dittrich
2000	Gianni Romme (4)		Frank Dittrich
2001			Vadim Sayutin
2003			Lasse Sætre
2004	Carl Verheijen (2)		Chad Hedrick
2005			Chad Hedrick
2007			Brigt Rykkje
2008			Bob de Jong
2009			Bob de Jong
2011			Ivan Skobrev
2012	Bob de Jong (5)		Jonathan Kuck
2013			Bob de Jong
2015			Patrick Beckert
2016			Erik Jan Kooiman
2017	Sven Kramer (5)		Patrick Beckert
2019	Jorrit Bergsma (3)		Danila Semerikov
2020			Patrick Beckert
2021			RSU Aleksandr Rumyantsev
2023			Ted-Jan Bloemen
2024	Davide Ghiotto (2)		Graeme Fish

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[5]

Medal table

Mass start

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
2015			Alexis Contin
2016			Alexis Contin
2017			Olivier Jean
2019			Chung Jae-won
2020			Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu
2021	Joey Mantia (3)		Bart Swings
2023			Andrea Giovannini
2024	Bart Swings (2)		Livio Wenger

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[6]

Medal table

Team pursuit

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
2005			Petter Andersen Odd Borgersen Eskil Ervik
2007			Yevgeny Lalenkov Ivan Skobrev Alexey Yunin
2008	Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel Erben Wennemars (3)		Jörg Dallmann Stefan Heythausen Marco Weber
2009	Sven Kramer Wouter olde Heuvel (2) Carl Verheijen (3)		Ryan Bedford Brian Hansen Trevor Marsicano
2011			Jan Blokhuijsen Bob de Vries Koen Verweij
2012			Yevgeny Lalenkov Ivan Skobrev Denis Yuskov
2013			Zbigniew Bródka Konrad Niedźwiedzki Jan Szymański
2015	Douwe de Vries Sven Kramer Koen Verweij (3)		Kim Cheol-min Ko Byung-wook Lee Seung-hoon
2016			Jordan Belchos Ted-Jan Bloemen Benjamin Donnelly
2017			Sindre Henriksen Simen Spieler Nilsen Sverre Lunde Pedersen
2019			Aleksandr Rumyantsev Danila Semerikov Sergey Trofimov
2020	Marcel Bosker Douwe de Vries (5) Sven Kramer (8)		Danila Semerikov Sergey Trofimov Ruslan Zakharov
2021			Russian Skating Union Danila Semerikov Sergey Trofimov Ruslan Zakharov
2023	Marcel Bosker (4) Patrick Roest (2) Beau Snellink (2)		Allan Dahl Johansson Peder Kongshaug Sverre Lunde Pedersen
2024			Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu Connor Howe Hayden Mayeur

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[7]

Medal table

Team sprint

Year	bgcolor=gold	Gold	bgcolor=silver	Silver	bgcolor=cc9966	Bronze
2019			Ruslan Murashov Pavel Kulizhnikov Viktor Mushtakov
2020			Bjørn Magnussen Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Odin By Farstad
2021	Not included in the program
2022	Held during the 2022 World Sprint Championships
2023			Bjørn Magnussen Henrik Fagerli Rukke Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen
2024	Anders Johnson Laurent Dubreuil (2) Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu (2)		Henrik Fagerli Rukke Bjørn Magnussen Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen

Source: schaatsstatistieken.nl ^[8]

Medal table

Medal summary

Updated after the 2024 World Championships.

World champions

Skater				Total
	21	3	2	26
	8	4	3	15
	7	8	5	20
	7	2	3	12
	6	2	3	11
	6	0	0	6
	5	8	0	13
	5	5	3	13
	5	3	2	10
	5	3	1	8
	5	0	1	6
	4	7	4	15
	4	6	0	10
	4	3	3	10
	4	3	1	8
	4	0	1	5
	4	0	1	5
	4	0	0	4
	3	3	2	8
	3	2	3	8
	3	2	2	7
	3	2	0	5
	3	1	0	4
	3	0	2	5
	3	0	1	4
	2	6	3	11
	2	2	2	6
	2	2	1	5
	2	2	0	4
	2	1	2	5
Mo Tae-bum	2	1	0	3
	2	0	2	4
	2	0	2	4
	2	0	1	3
	2	0	0	2
	2	0	0	2
	2	0	0	2
	1	5	2	8
	1	4	3	8
	1	4	1	6
	1	3	1	5
	1	2	2	5
	1	2	1	4
	1	2	1	4
	1	2	1	4
	1	2	0	3
	1	1	2	4
	1	1	1	3
	1	1	0	2
	1	0	2	3
	1	0	2	3
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1

Silver medalists

Skater			Total
	5	0	5
	3	1	4
	2	1	3
	2	1	3
	2	0	2
	2	0	2
	2	0	2
	1	6	7
	1	3	4
	1	2	3
	1	2	3
	1	2	3
	1	2	3
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	1	2
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1

Bronze medalists

Skater
	5
	4
	4
	3
	3
	2
	2
	2
	2
	2
	2
	2
	2
	2
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1
	1

Notes and References

1. Web site: WK Afstanden 500 meter mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.
2. Web site: WK Afstanden 1000 meter mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.
3. Web site: WK Afstanden 1500 meter mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.
4. Web site: WK Afstanden 5000 meter mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.
5. Web site: WK Afstanden 10000 meter mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.
6. Web site: WK Afstanden 10000 meter mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.
7. Web site: WK Afstanden Achtervolging mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.
8. Web site: WK Afstanden Achtervolging mannen. schaatsstatistieken.nl. 21 November 2012. nl.