Speed Skating
- Men
| Event | Athlete | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| 500 m | Peter Adeberg | 36.92 | 31 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Christian Breuer | 36.78 | 26 | 36.41 | 15 | 73.19 | 19 | |
| Michael Künzel | 36.56 | 15 | 36.19 | 8 | 72.75 | 11 | |
| 1000 m | Christian Breuer | 1:12.33 | 16 | ||||
| Peter Adeberg | 1:11.90 | 9 | |||||
| 1500 m | René Taubenrauch | 1:54.91 | 38 | ||||
| Frank Dittrich | 1:53.64 | 33 | |||||
| Peter Adeberg | 1:51.50 | 13 | |||||
| Christian Breuer | 1:50.96 | 9 | |||||
| 5000 m | Alexander Baumgärtel | 6:39.44 | 13 | ||||
| René Taubenrauch | 6:35.21 | 6 | |||||
| Frank Dittrich | 6:32.17 | 5 | |||||
| 10,000 m | René Taubenrauch | 13:52.10 | 11 | ||||
| Alexander Baumgärtel | 13:48.44 | 10 | |||||
| Frank Dittrich | 13:36.58 | 6 | |||||
- Women
| Event | Athlete | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| 500 m | Anke Baier-Loef | 39.73 | 16 | 39.75 | 16 | 79.48 | 15 |
| Sabine Völker | 39.19 | 10 | 39.00 | 6 | 78.19 | 7 | |
| Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt | 39.11 | 7 | 39.34 | 10 | 78.45 | 8 | |
| Franziska Schenk | 38.88 | 5 | 38.57 | 4 | 77.45 | 4 | |
| 1000 m | Franziska Schenk | DNF | – | ||||
| Anke Baier-Loef | 1:19.42 | 16 | |||||
| Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt | 1:18.76 | 10 | |||||
| Sabine Völker | 1:17.54 | 4 | |||||
| 1500 m | Claudia Pechstein | 1:59.46 | 7 | ||||
| Anni Friesinger | 1:59.20 | 5 | |||||
| Gunda Niemann | 1:58.66 | 02 ! | |||||
| 3000 m | Anni Friesinger | 4:09.44 | 03 ! | ||||
| Claudia Pechstein | 4:08.47 | 02 ! | |||||
| Gunda Niemann | 4:07.29 OR | 01 ! | |||||
| 5000 m | Heike Warnicke | 7:30.83 | 14 | ||||
| Gunda Niemann | 6:59.65 | 02 ! | |||||
| Claudia Pechstein | 6:59.61 WR | 01 ! | |||||
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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)