2008 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships
Thialf (Heerenveen)
Venue	Thialf
Dates	19–20 January 2008
Medalist men
Lee Kyou-hyuk  KOR Jeremy Wotherspoon  CAN Mun Joon  KOR
Medalist women
Jenny Wolf  GER Anni Friesinger  GER Annette Gerritsen  NED
←2007 Hamar 2009 Moscow→

The 2008 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships were held in the Thialf arena in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 19 and 20 January 2008. They were the 37th World Championships.

Rank	Skater	Nat.	500 m (1)	1000 m (1)	500 m (2)	1000 m (2)	Total
	Lee Kyou-hyuk		34.99 (2)	1:09.84 (6)	34.85 (1)	1:08.82 (1)	139.170
	Jeremy Wotherspoon		34.81 (1)	1:09.47 (3)	34.95 (2)	1:09.54 (7)	139.265
	Mun Joon		35.62 (15)	1:09.72 (4)	35.00 (3)	1:09.20 (3)	140.080
4	Simon Kuipers		35.53 (14)	1:09.46 (2)	35.23 (4)	1:09.28 (6)	140.130
5	Keiichiro Nagashima		35.24 (6)	1:10.51 (9)	35.25 (5)	1:10.01 (9)	140.750
6	Mika Poutala		35.14 (4)	1:10.65 (11)	35.28 (6)	1:10.07 (10)	140.780
7	Denny Morrison		35.82 (19)	1:09.72 (4)	35.66 (14)	1:09.22 (4)	140.950
8	Jacques de Koning		35.36 (12)	1:10.55 (10)	35.40 (8)	1:10.20 (11)	141.135
9	Lars Elgersma		35.98 (21)	1:10.84 (13)	35.56 (12)	1:09.22 (4)	141.570
10	Lee Kang-seok		35.13 (3)	1:11.03 (16)	35.33 (7)	1:11.25 (20)	141.600
11	An Weijiang		35.24 (6)	1:11.01 (15)	35.67 (16)	1:11.02 (18)	141.925
12	Håvard Bøkko		36.00 (22)	1:10.11 (7)	36.19 (26)	1:09.93 (8)	142.210
13	Tadashi Obara		35.74 (17)	1:11.28 (19)	35.62 (13)	1:10.95 (17)	142.475
14	Samuel Schwarz		36.07 (23)	1:10.45 (8)	35.98 (18)	1:10.42 (12)	142.485
15	Tucker Fredricks		35.41 (13)	1:11.88 (27)	35.66 (14)	1:11.07 (19)	142.545
16	Maciej Ustynowicz		35.94 (20)	1:10.98 (14)	35.99 (19)	1:10.55 (15)	142.695
17	Vincent Labrie		35.64 (16)	1:11.54 (23)	35.68 (17)	1:11.33 (21)	142.755
18	Konrad Niedźwiedzki		36.34 (30)	1:11.11 (17)	36.10 (25)	1:10.47 (13)	143.230
19	Takaharu Nakajima		35.79 (18)	1:11.60 (24)	36.02 (22)	1:11.46 (23)	143.340
	Joji Kato		35.27 (9)	1:12.34 (31)	35.40 (8)	1:13.00 (34)	143.340
21	Aleksey Yesin		36.11 (24)	1:11.31 (20)	36.00 (20)	1:11.51 (24)	143.520
22	Dag-Erik Kleven		36.25 (27)	1:11.69 (26)	36.01 (21)	1:10.92 (16)	143.565
23	Mikael Flygind-Larsen		36.41 (31)	1:11.25 (18)	36.38 (29)	1:10.50 (14)	143.665
24	Tuomas Nieminen		36.22 (26)	1:11.67 (25)	36.03 (23)	1:11.55 (25)	143.860
25	Nico Ihle		36.19 (25)	1:12.00 (29)	36.08 (24)	1:12.16 (29)	144.350
26	Nick Pearson		36.27 (28)	1:12.10 (30)	36.55 (33)	1:11.64 (26)	144.690
27	Joel Eriksson		36.84 (37)	1:11.36 (22)	36.64 (34)	1:11.42 (22)	144.870
28	Aleksandr Lebedev		36.59 (35)	1:11.96 (28)	36.49 (32)	1:11.82 (27)	144.970
29	Pasi Koskela		36.43 (32)	1:12.37 (32)	36.24 (27)	1:12.31 (30)	145.010
30	Aleksey Proshin		36.48 (33)	1:12.52 (34)	36.46 (31)	1:12.03 (28)	145.215
31	Ermanno Ioriatti		36.28 (29)	1:12.91 (35)	36.43 (30)	1:12.32 (31)	145.325
32	Yu Fengtong		35.20 (5)	1:14.77 (39)	35.51 (11)	1:14.56 (38)	145.375
33	Chris Needham		36.50 (34)	1:12.91 (35)	36.34 (28)	1:12.65 (33)	145.620
34	Aleksandr Zhigin		36.93 (39)	1:12.44 (33)	36.73 (35)	1:12.62 (32)	146.190
35	Daniel Friberg		36.88 (38)	1:13.31 (37)	37.12 (36)	1:13.08 (36)	147.195
36	Pascal Briand		37.00 (40)	1:13.40 (38)	37.47 (37)	1:13.03 (35)	147.685
37	Vladimir Sherstyuk		36.64 (36)	1:15.07 (40)	52.33 (39)	1:14.17 (37)	163.590
38	Aleksandr Komar		37.30 (41)	1:15.14 (41)	51.70 (38)	1:14.66 (39)	163.900
39	Jan Bos		35.24 (6)	1:09.13 (1)	1:07.48 (40)	1:08.94 (2)	171.755
DQ1	Kip Carpenter		DQ	1:10.79 (12)	35.41 (10)		70.805
NS3	Pekka Koskela		35.29 (11)	1:11.32 (21)	NS		70.950
NS2	Dmitry Lobkov		35.27 (9)	NS			35.270

DQ = disqualified
NS = Not started

Source: ISU ^[1]

Rank	Skater	Nat.	500 m (1)	1000 m (1)	500 m (2)	1000 m (2)	Total
	Jenny Wolf		37.64 (1)	1:17.06 (6)	37.60 (1)	1:17.09 (7)	152.315
	Anni Friesinger		38.70 (7)	1:15.58 (1)	38.76 (7)	1:15.82 (2)	153.160
	Annette Gerritsen		38.36 (2)	1:17.51 (8)	38.44 (3)	1:15.91 (3)	153.510
4	Chiara Simionato		38.94 (9)	1:16.89 (5)	38.75 (6)	1:16.00 (4)	154.135
5	Marianne Timmer		38.91 (8)	1:16.75 (3)	38.64 (5)	1:16.72 (6)	154.285
6	Ireen Wüst		39.47 (19)	1:15.64 (2)	39.56 (19)	1:15.59 (1)	154.645
7	Shannon Rempel		38.95 (10)	1:17.32 (7)	39.02 (12)	1:16.55 (5)	154.905
8	Zhang Shuang		38.49 (4)	1:18.03 (11)	38.61 (4)	1:18.66 (14)	155.445
9	Heike Hartmann		38.96 (11)	1:17.75 (9)	38.89 (10)	1:17.86 (9)	155.655
10	Lee Sang-hwa		38.46 (3)	1:20.00 (22)	38.27 (2)	1:18.22 (10)	155.840
11	Svetlana Kaykan		38.64 (6)	1:18.58 (12)	38.81 (8)	1:18.55 (13)	156.015
12	Paulien van Deutekom		39.63 (21)	1:16.79 (4)	39.56 (19)	1:17.11 (8)	156.140
13	Elli Ochowicz		39.10 (17)	1:18.67 (13)	38.88 (9)	1:18.47 (12)	156.550
14	Yuliya Nemaya		38.96 (11)	1:19.08 (16)	39.19 (16)	1:18.87 (17)	157.125
15	Svetlana Radkevich		39.20 (18)	1:19.06 (15)	39.13 (14)	1:18.71 (16)	157.215
16	Shihomi Shinya		38.96 (11)	1:19.16 (18)	39.09 (13)	1:19.32 (19)	157.290
17	Sayuri Yoshii		38.97 (14)	1:19.00 (14)	39.55 (17)	1:19.28 (18)	157.660
18	Yekaterina Malysheva		39.55 (20)	1:19.23 (19)	39.65 (21)	1:18.33 (11)	157.980
19	Lee Bo-ra		39.05 (16)	1:20.06 (23)	39.17 (15)	1:19.62 (20)	158.060
20	Maki Tabata		40.01 (25)	1:17.85 (10)	40.22 (27)	1:18.68 (15)	158.495
21	Kerry Simpson		39.65 (22)	1:19.57 (21)	39.55 (17)	1:19.64 (21)	158.805
22	Xing Aihua		39.00 (15)	1:20.15 (24)	38.93 (11)	1:22.01 (28)	159.010
23	Danielle Wotherspoon		39.75 (23)	1:20.49 (26)	39.98 (22)	1:20.55 (25)	160.250
24	Tamara Oudenaarden		39.86 (24)	1:21.15 (29)	40.01 (23)	1:20.52 (24)	160.705
25	Heather Richardson		40.53 (28)	1:20.51 (27)	40.11 (25)	1:19.85 (22)	160.820
26	Bianca Anghel		40.66 (29)	1:19.44 (20)	40.44 (28)	1:20.07 (23)	160.855
27	Yekaterina Lukoanova		40.18 (27)	1:20.38 (25)	40.21 (26)	1:21.03 (27)	161.095
28	Natalya Rybakova		40.75 (31)	1:20.55 (28)	40.86 (30)	1:20.89 (26)	162.330
29	Anna Badayeva		40.73 (30)	1:22.81 (32)	40.72 (29)	1:22.09 (29)	163.900
30	Paulina Wallin		40.09 (26)	1:24.94 (34)	40.04 (24)	1:23.27 (32)	164.235
31	Yelena Myagkikh		41.74 (36)	1:22.64 (31)	41.44 (32)	1:22.66 (30)	165.830
32	Daniela Oltean		41.59 (33)	1:23.02 (33)	41.60 (33)	1:22.77 (31)	166.085
33	Susanna Potka		41.73 (35)	1:24.97 (35)	41.90 (34)	1:24.18 (33)	168.205
34	Claudia Wallin		41.61 (34)	1:27.65 (36)	41.02 (31)	1:26.41 (34)	169.660
NS3	Wang Beixing		38.49 (4)	1:19.10 (17)	NS		78.040
DQ3	Lana Gehring		41.22 (32)	1:21.67 (30)	DQ		82.055

DQ = disqualified
NS = Not started

Source: ISU ^[2]

All participating skaters are allowed to skate all races.