Athletics Base Camp 2022.2.3 The third day of the Chinese New Year
Tomorrow, February 4, the Beijing Winter Olympics will be grandly opened. Today we will talk about an interesting topic: the "athletics" event at the Winter Olympics: speed skating!
Speed skating (avenue) and short track speed skating, the English word for this "road" is "track" ~ ~ ~ avenue speed skating track circumference is 400 meters, the same as the outdoor track track circumference.
In terms of race distance, speed skating is similar to athletics. Whether it is a short track or an avenue, the shortest distance of speed skating in the World Series is 500 meters, and there are 1000 meters, 1500 meters up...
In contrast, speed skating is much faster than athletics. The men's 1000m speed skating (boulevard) can reach an average speed of 54.80 km/h.
Let's take a look at the world record for speed skating!
Short track speed skating (111.12m in one lap)
Short Track Speed Skating World Record (Men's)
500 m (score accurate to centile)
39.505
Wu Dajing (China) on November 11, 2018 (Salt Lake City, USA)
1000 meters
1:20.875
Hwang Dae-heon (South Korea) on November 12, 2016 (Salt Lake City, USA)
1500 meters
2:07.943
Sjinkie Knegt (Netherlands) on November 13, 2016 (Salt Lake City, USA)
5000 m relay
6:28.625
Hungary (Csaba Burján, Cole Krueger, Liu Shaolin, Liu Shaoang) was created on 4 November 2018 (in Calgary, Canada)
Short Track Speed Skating World Record (Women)
500 meters
41.936
Kim Boutin (Canada) on November 3, 2019 (Salt Lake City, USA)
1:26.661
Shim Suk-hee (South Korea) on October 21, 2012 (in Calgary, Canada)
2:14.354
Choi Min-jeong (South Korea) on November 12, 2016 (Salt Lake City, USA)
3000 m relay
4:02.809
The Netherlands (Selma Poutsma, Suzanne Schulting, Yara van Kerkhof, Xandra Velzeboer) was created on October 23, 2021 (in Beijing)
Short Track Speed Skating World Record (mixed)
Mixed 2000 m relay
2:35.951
South Korea (Kim Jiyoo, Kim A Lang, Kim Dongwook, Kwak Yoongy) was created on October 24, 2021 (in Beijing)
Speed skating (boulevard, 400 meters on a lap of the track)
Speed Skating World Record (Men's)
Below are the individual events of the Winter Olympics.
33.61
Pavel Kulizhnikov (Russia) on March 9, 2019 (Salt Lake City, USA)
1:05.69
Pavel Kulizhnikov (Russia) on February 15, 2020 (Salt Lake City, USA)
1:40.17
Kjeld Nuis (Netherlands) on March 10, 2019 (Salt Lake City, USA)
5000 meters
6:01.56
Nils van der Poel (Sweden) on December 3, 2021 (Salt Lake City, USA)
10000 meters
12:32.95
Nils van der Poel (Sweden) on February 14, 2021 (in Heerenveen, The Netherlands)
Speed Skating World Record (Women)
36.36
Lee Sang-hwa (South Korea) on November 16, 2013 (Salt Lake City, USA)
1:11.61
Brittany Bowe (USA) on March 9, 2019 (Salt Lake City, USA)
1:49.83
Miho Takagi (Japan) on March 10, 2019 (Salt Lake City, USA)
3000 meters
3:52.02
Martina Sáblíková (Czech Republic) on March 9, 2019 (Salt Lake City, USA)
6:39.02
Natalya Voronina (Russia) on February 15, 2020 (Salt Lake City, USA)
The Winter Olympics are about to open, and some of the Chinese team's Winter Olympic athletes are from athletics.
Come on, look forward to realizing the dream!