The World All-Round Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating events held annually to determine the best All-Round speed skater of the world. The International Skating Union has organised the World All-Round Championships for Men since 1893 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892) and the World All-Round Championships for Women since 1936 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1933-1935). Only since 1996 are the men's and women's World All-Round Championships held at the same time and venue.
Read more about World All-Round Speed Skating Championships: Number of World All-Round Speed Skating Championships Per Person
Famous quotes containing the words world, speed and/or skating:
“...to many a mother’s heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother’s kiss.”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)