1893 in Sports - Speed Skating

Speed Skating

Events

  • First World Championships in speed skating (open to men only) directly under the auspices of the ISU held in Amsterdam

Speed Skating World Championships

  • Men's All-round Champion – Jaap Eden (Netherlands)

Read more about this topic:  1893 In Sports

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)