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:
“No speed of wind or water rushing by
But you have speed far greater.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)