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World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
	Thialf (Heerenveen)
Venue	Thialf (Heerenveen)
Dates	22–25 March 2012
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The 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships took place between 22 and 25 March 2012 in the Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands visited the Championships on 24 March.^[1]

Schedule

Source: schaatsen.nl^[2]& ISU.org^[3]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details	Mo Tae-bum South Korea	69.64	Michel Mulder Netherlands	+0.01	Pekka Koskela Finland	+0.18
1000 m details	Stefan Groothuis Netherlands	1:08.57	Kjeld Nuis Netherlands	+0.22	Shani Davis United States	+0.26
1500 m details	Denny Morrison Canada	1:46.44	Ivan Skobrev Russia	+0.05	Håvard Bøkko Norway	+0.06
5000 m details	Sven Kramer Netherlands	6:13.87	Bob de Jong Netherlands	+1.39	Jonathan Kuck United States	+2.41
10000 m details	Bob de Jong Netherlands	12:53.91	Jorrit Bergsma Netherlands	+3.80	Jonathan Kuck United States	+18.75
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Sven Kramer Koen Verweij Jan Blokhuijsen	3:41.43	United States Shani Davis Brian Hansen Jonathan Kuck	+1.99	Russia Ivan Skobrev Denis Yuskov Yevgeny Lalenkov	+2.19

Source: ISU^[4]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details	Lee Sang-hwa South Korea	75.69	Yu Jing China	+0.43	Thijsje Oenema Netherlands	+0.59
1000 m details	Christine Nesbitt Canada	1:15.16	Yu Jing China	+0.82	Margot Boer Netherlands	+1.00
1500 m details	Christine Nesbitt Canada	1:56.07	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	+0.33	Linda de Vries Netherlands	+1.01
3000 m details	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	4:01.88	Stephanie Beckert Germany	+2.21	Ireen Wüst Netherlands	+2.99
5000 m details	Martina Sáblíková Czech Republic	6:50.46	Stephanie Beckert Germany	+6.18	Claudia Pechstein Germany	+13.55
Team pursuit details	Netherlands Ireen Wüst Diane Valkenburg Linda de Vries	2:59.70	Canada Brittany Schussler Christine Nesbitt Cindy Klassen	+0.81	Poland Natalia Czerwonka Katarzyna Woźniak Luiza Złotkowska	+3.62

Source: ISU^[4]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands (NED)	5	5	4	14
2	Canada (CAN)	3	1	0	4
3	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	0	0	2
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	0	2
5	Germany (GER)	0	2	1	3
6	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
7	United States (USA)	0	1	3	4
8	Russia (RUS)	0	1	1	2
9	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36

^ RVD (20 March 2012). "Koningin aanwezig bij deel schaatswedstrijden Wereldkampioenschappen Afstanden" [Queen present for part of the World Single Distance Championships]. Koninklijkhuis.nl. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
^ "Essent ISU WK Afstanden". schaatsen.nl. Archived from the original on 14 January 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
^ "Announcement (Event Calendar)". ISU.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
^ ^a ^b "ISU Results". ISU. Retrieved 21 February 2012.