World Speed Skating Championships

The International Skating Union organises the following World Championships in the sport of speed skating:

  • Allround
    • Men's Allround
    • Women's Allround
  • Sprint
    • Men's Sprint
    • Women's Sprint
  • Single Distances
    • Men's Single Distances
    • Women's Single Distances
  • Short Track

Famous quotes containing the words world, speed and/or skating:

    “Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “There was such speed in her little body,
    And such lightness in her footfall,
    It is no wonder her brown study
    Astonishes us all.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)