2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships

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

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.

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& ISU.org

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Mo Tae-bum South Korea	69.760 TR	Joji Kato Japan	+0.06	Jan Smeekens Netherlands	+0.10
1000 m	Denis Kuzin Kazakhstan	1:09.14 TR	Mo Tae-bum South Korea	+0.10	Shani Davis United States	+0.16
1500 m	Denis Yuskov Russia	1:46.32 TR	Shani Davis United States	+0.51	Ivan Skobrev Russia	+0.65
5000 m	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:14.41 TR	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	+3.53	Ivan Skobrev Russia	+3.90
10000 m	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	12:57.69 TR	Sven Kramer Netherlands	+2.02	Bob de Jong Netherlands	+2.57
Team pursuit	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

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	75.347 TR	Wang Beixing China	+0.70	Olga Fatkulina Russia	+0.75
1000 m	Olga Fatkulina Russia	1:15.44 TR	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	+0.27	Brittany Bowe United States	+0.43
1500 m	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	1:55.38 TR	Lotte van Beek Netherlands	+2.64	Christine Nesbitt Canada	+2.69
3000 m	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	4:02.43 TR	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	+2.37	Claudia Pechstein Germany	+5.32
5000 m	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:54.31 TR	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	+8.65	Claudia Pechstein Germany	+9.76
Team pursuit	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

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