World Championship Single Distances

This page lists all information available on the World Championship Single Distances. The subnavigation allows you to quickly retrieve the complete 'History' of the top 3 results. In the corresponding medal summary table you can click on a specific year to go to the full results of that year. The right-hand side of the subnavigation links to different 'Statistics' of the World Championship Single Distances. The statistics will be updated automatically after every championship.

Smallest difference between nr.1 and nr.2 at the World Championship Single Distances Men

#	diff.	discipline (year)	time diff.	skater #1		time #1	skater #2		time #2
1	0.010	1000 meters (2000)	0.02	Ådne Søndrål	NOR	1:09.96	Jan Bos	NED	1:09.98
	0.010	1000 meters (2007)	0.02	Shani Davis	USA	1:07.28	Denny Morrison	CAN	1:07.30
	0.010	2x500 meters (2012)	0.010	Mo Tae-bum	KOR	69.640	Michel Mulder	NED	69.650
4	0.011	5000 meters (1996)	0.11	Ids Postma	NED	6:47.09	Keiji Shirahata	JPN	6:47.20
5	0.016	1500 meters (2011)	0.05	Håvard Bøkko	NOR	1:45.04	Shani Davis	USA	1:45.09
	0.016	1500 meters (2012)	0.05	Denny Morrison	CAN	1:46.44	Ivan Skobrev	RUS	1:46.49
7	0.020	1000 meters (2009)	0.04	Trevor Marsicano	USA	1:08.96	Denny Morrison	CAN	1:09.00
	0.020	1000 meters (2015)	0.04	Shani Davis	USA	1:08.57	Pavel Kulizhnikov	RUS	1:08.61
9	0.021	10,000 meters (2019)	0.42	Jorrit Bergsma	NED	12:52.92	Patrick Roest	NED	12:53.34
10	0.023	1500 meters (2020)	0.07	Kjeld Nuis	NED	1:41.66	Thomas Krol	NED	1:41.73
11	0.030	2x500 meters (1997)	0.030	Manabu Horii	JPN	73.550	Roger Strøm	NOR	73.580
12	0.033	1500 meters (2001)	0.10	Ådne Søndrål	NOR	1:46.10	Derek Parra	USA	1:46.20
	0.033	1500 meters (2008)	0.10	Denny Morrison	CAN	1:45.22	Sven Kramer	NED	1:45.32
14	0.035	1000 meters (1998)	0.07	Sylvain Bouchard	CAN	1:09.60	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	1:09.67
	0.035	5000 meters (2016)	0.35	Sven Kramer	NED	6:10.31	Jorrit Bergsma	NED	6:10.66
16	0.036	5000 meters (1999)	0.36	Gianni Romme	NED	6:29.39	Bart Veldkamp	BEL	6:29.75
17	0.043	1500 meters (2009)	0.13	Shani Davis	USA	1:46.17	Trevor Marsicano	USA	1:46.30
18	0.047	5000 meters (2003)	0.47	Jochem Uytdehaage	NED	6:25.29	Bob de Jong	NED	6:25.76
19	0.050	1500 meters (2005)	0.15	Rune Stordal	NOR	1:50.69	Mark Tuitert	NED	1:50.84
	0.050	1000 meters (2013)	0.10	Denis Kuzin	KAZ	1:09.14	Mo Tae-bum	KOR	1:09.24
	0.050	1000 meters (2016)	0.10	Pavel Kulizhnikov	RUS	1:08.33	Denis Yuskov	RUS	1:08.43
22	0.054	5000 meters (2020)	0.54	Ted-Jan Bloemen	CAN	6:04.37	Sven Kramer	NED	6:04.91
23	0.060	2x500 meters (2013)	0.060	Mo Tae-bum	KOR	69.760	Joji Kato	JPN	69.820
24	0.066	1500 meters (1996)	0.20	Jeroen Straathof	NED	1:53.94	Ådne Søndrål	NOR	1:54.14
	0.066	10,000 meters (2001)	1.32	Carl Verheijen	NED	13:12.49	Bob de Jong	NED	13:13.81
	0.066	10,000 meters (2005)	1.33	Bob de Jong	NED	13:25.64	Carl Verheijen	NED	13:26.97
27	0.080	500 meters (2017)	0.08	Jan Smeekens	NED	0:34.58	Nico Ihle	GER	0:34.66
28	0.088	5000 meters (1997)	0.88	Rintje Ritsma	NED	7:02.34	Gianni Romme	NED	7:03.22
29	0.101	10,000 meters (2013)	2.02	Jorrit Bergsma	NED	12:57.69	Sven Kramer	NED	12:59.71
30	0.103	1500 meters (2017)	0.31	Kjeld Nuis	NED	1:44.36	Denis Yuskov	RUS	1:44.67
31	0.110	1500 meters (1999)	0.33	Ids Postma	NED	1:47.92	Ådne Søndrål	NOR	1:48.25
	0.110	1000 meters (2001)	0.22	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	1:08.28	Ådne Søndrål	NOR	1:08.50
	0.110	1000 meters (2005)	0.22	Even Wetten	NOR	1:10.10	Jan Bos	NED	1:10.32
	0.110	1000 meters (2011)	0.22	Shani Davis	USA	1:08.45	Kjeld Nuis	NED	1:08.67
	0.110	1000 meters (2012)	0.22	Stefan Groothuis	NED	1:08.57	Kjeld Nuis	NED	1:08.79
36	0.120	1500 meters (2021)	0.36	Thomas Krol	NED	1:43.75	Kjeld Nuis	NED	1:44.11
37	0.130	500 meters (2019)	0.13	Ruslan Murashov	RUS	0:34.22	Håvard Lorentzen	NOR	0:34.35
	0.130	1000 meters (2021)	0.26	Kai Verbij	NED	1:08.05	Pavel Kulizhnikov	RUS	1:08.31
39	0.136	1500 meters (2007)	0.41	Shani Davis	USA	1:42.39	Erben Wennemars	NED	1:42.80
40	0.139	5000 meters (2012)	1.39	Sven Kramer	NED	6:13.87	Bob de Jong	NED	6:15.26
41	0.140	1000 meters (2017)	0.28	Kjeld Nuis	NED	1:08.26	Vincent De Haître	CAN	1:08.54
	0.140	1000 meters (2019)	0.28	Kai Verbij	NED	1:07.39	Thomas Krol	NED	1:07.67
43	0.146	10,000 meters (2016)	2.92	Sven Kramer	NED	12:56.77	Ted-Jan Bloemen	CAN	12:59.69
44	0.150	2x500 meters (1996)	0.150	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN	72.060	Sergey Klevchenya	RUS	72.210
	0.150	500 meters (2021)	0.15	Laurent Dubreuil	CAN	0:34.39	Pavel Kulizhnikov	RUS	0:34.54
46	0.161	10,000 meters (1999)	3.22	Bob de Jong	NED	13:26.61	Gianni Romme	NED	13:29.83
47	0.166	5000 meters (2021)	1.66	Nils van der Poel	SWE	6:08.39	Patrick Roest	NED	6:10.05
48	0.170	1000 meters (1999)	0.34	Jan Bos	NED	1:10.41	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN	1:10.75
	0.170	1500 meters (2013)	0.51	Denis Yuskov	RUS	1:46.32	Shani Davis	USA	1:46.83
50	0.182	5000 meters (2009)	1.82	Sven Kramer	NED	6:16.20	Håvard Bøkko	NOR	6:18.02