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:
“The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)
“There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“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)