Speed Skating
Speed Skating World Championships
- Men's All-round Champion – Kornél Pajor (Hungary)
- Women's All-round Champion – Maria Isakova (USSR)
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Famous quotes containing the words speed and/or skating:
“For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.”
—Martin Amis (b. 1949)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)