The 2007

World Sprint Speed Skating Championships The World Sprint Speed Skating Championships are annual speed skating championships. The championships are held over a two-day period, with the skaters racing one 500 m and one 1,000 m each day. Since the higher speeds towards the end ...

were held in Vikingskipet,

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, on 20–21 January 2007. They were the 36th World Championships, and it was the third time the Championships were held in Hamar. Several of the world's top skaters, including the top two from the 2006 men's and women's standings, did not take part in the competition, while Lee Kang-seok (men),

Lee Sang-hwa Lee Sang-hwa (Korean: 이상화, Hanja: 李相花, ; born 25 February 1989) is a South Korean retired speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances. She is a two-time Olympic champion in 500 metres (2010 and 2014) and the 2010 World S ...

and

Wang Beixing Wang Beixing (; born 10 March 1985) is a Chinese long track speed skater, specializing in short distances (500 m and 1000 m). Wang first competed in 2003. However, her breakthrough came in the 2004–05 season, winning several times in the Worl ...

(women), all among the top three in the 500 meter World Cup rankings, did not take part as they are competing in other colliding tournaments. Three-time world allround champion

Anni Friesinger Anna ("Anni") Christine Friesinger-Postma (born 11 January 1977) is a German former speed skater. Her father Georg Friesinger, of Germany, and mother Janina ("Jana") Korowicka, of Poland, were both skaters; Jana was on the Polish team at the 197 ...

entered for the second time, after winning silver in

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, and won gold by more than one

samalog Samalog (or samalogue in UK spelling; sometimes sammenlagt in both Norwegian and Danish: "put together", "total sum") is a scoring system in speed skating. It is used in allround tournaments to convert results at various distances into points in o ...

point, the greatest margin of victory since

Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (born 11 December 1968) is a German former ice speed skater. During her 15-year career, she became sprint world champion five times (1991, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003), and in addition she won four gold medals in the World ...

's last title in

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. She thus became the fourth woman to become world champion in both allround and sprint. Conversely, the men's competition was the closest since

Bae Ki-tae Bae Ki-tae (, born 3 May 1965 in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do) is a former speed skater from South Korea. In 1990, he became the first Korean speed-skater to win a senior championship, winning gold at the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships hel ...

won South Korea's first title, in

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. The men's title went to a Korean for the third time in the tournament's history. Finland's

Pekka Koskela Pekka Koskela (born 29 November 1982) is a Finnish speed skater, specialising on the sprint distances 500 m and 1000 m. He is the former world record holder on the 1000 m with the time 1:07.00. In December 2001 he set a junior world record on t ...

led the tournament until two laps remained of the 1000 metres, but despite skating a better last lap than Lee he finished 0.065 points behind the Korean.

Men championships

Results

DQ = disqualified
NS = Not Started

Women championships

Results

DQ = disqualified
NS = Not Started

Rules

All participating skaters are allowed to skate the two 500 meters and two 1000 meters.

External links

Tournament homepage

ISU website

References

Results of the 2007 World Championship Sprint Men
from SpeedSkatingStats.com
Results of the 2007 World Championship Sprint Women
from SpeedSkatingStats.com *
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