The 1998 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 13–15 March 1998 in the Thialf stadium in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann and Ids Postma were the world title holders from the previous year and successfully defended their titles. It was Niemann-Stirnemann's seventh all-round world title.
Allround results
Men Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 5000 m 1500 m 10000 m Ids Postma 153.367 WR 36.48 (1) 6:33.09 (1) 1:48.85 (1) 13:45.91 (4) Rintje Ritsma 154.091 37.17 (4) 6:34.68 (3) 1:48.86 (2) 13:43.35 (2) Roberto Sighel 155.830 37.54 (6) 6:39.68 (6) 1:51.19 (3) 13:45.18 (3) 4 Bart Veldkamp 156.129 39.02 (27) 6:34.60 (2) 1:51.57 (5) 13:29.19 (1) 5 K. C. Boutiette 156.587 36.90 (2) 6:40.01 (7) 1:52.29 (10) 14:05.13 (9) 6 Jelmer Beulenkamp 157.165 37.95 (14) 6:39.15 (5) 1:51.46 (4) 14:02.94 (8) 7 Keiji Shirahata 157.478 37.78 (11) 6:48.16 (12) 1:52.37 (11) 13:48.53 (5) 8 Frank Dittrich 158.217 38.65 (24) 6:38.90 (4) 1:54.20 (21) 13:52.23 (6) 9 Uwe Tonat 158.363 37.76 (10) 6:47.86 (11) 1:52.65 (13) 14:05.35 (10) 10 Steven Elm 158.442 38.10 (16) 6:49.63 (17) 1:52.13 (7) 14:00.06 (7) 11 Dave Tamburrino 159.384 37.74 (9) 6:49.36 (16) 1:53.69 (18) 14:16.25 (11) 12 Sergej Tsibenko 159.938 37.49 (5) 6:52.90 (20) 1:52.26 (8) 14:34.76 (12) NC13 Eskil Ervik 116.613 38.54 (20) 6:41.50 (9) 1:53.77 (19) NC14 Mamoru Ishioka 116.737 37.89 (13) 6:48.77 (13) 1:53.91 (20) NC15 Michael Spielmann 116.808 37.56 (7) 6:58.25 (26) 1:52.27 (9) NC16 Takahiro Nozaki 116.899 38.33 (18) 6:48.86 (14) 1:53.05 (16) NC17 Kevin Marshall 117.154 37.64 (8) 6:58.91 (27) 1:52.87 (15) NC18 Maurizio De Monte 117.274 38.07 (15) 6:56.21 (24) 1:52.75 (14) NC19 Cédric Kuentz 117.358 37.85 (12) 6:59.78 (29) 1:52.59 (12) NC20 Marnix ten Kortenaar 117.390 38.57 (22) 6:51.10 (19) 1:53.13 (17) NC21 Paweł Zygmunt 117.411 38.49 (19) 6:45.61 (10) 1:55.08 (23) NC22 Jason Parker 117.457 37.14 (3) 7:09.74 (32) 1:52.03 (6) NC23 Jondon Trevena 118.081 38.22 (17) 6:56.05 (23) 1:54.77 (22) NC24 Kjell Storelid 118.493 39.77 (31) 6:40.37 (8) 1:56.06 (28) NC25 Sebastian Falk 118.600 38.55 (21) 6:56.90 (25) 1:55.08 (23) NC26 Anatoli Krasjeninin 118.886 39.31 (28) 6:49.10 (15) 1:56.00 (27) NC27 Dmitri Krasovski 119.097 38.58 (23) 6:59.51 (28) 1:55.70 (25) NC28 Desző Horváth 119.411 39.32 (29) 6:54.65 (22) 1:55.88 (26) NC29 Samuli Ollanketo 120.902 39.57 (30) 7:05.26 (30) 1:56.42 (29) NC30 Oleg Psevkin 121.611 38.99 (26) 7:14.18 (34) 1:57.61 (31) NC31 Sergij Priz 121.895 39.77 (31) 7:11.29 (33) 1:56.99 (30) NC32 Fausto Marreiros 123.549 40.31 (34) 7:08.99 (31) 2:01.02 (33) NC33 Martin Holoubek 126.010 41.11 (36) 7:20.20 (35) 2:02.64 (34) NC34 Martin Feigenwinter 141.180 1:00.63 (37f) 6:49.74 (18) 1:58.73 (32) NF3 Stefan Lechner 81.774 40.32 (35) 6:54.54 (21) - (NF) NS3 Andrew Nicholson 83.021 38.92 (25) 7:21.01 (36) - (NS) NS2 Vadim Sayutin 39.800 39.80 (33) - (NS)
Women Place Athlete Country Points 500 m 1500 m 3000 m 5000 m Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann 163.020 WR 40.57 (9) 1:58.69 (1) 4:05.08 (1) WR 7:00.41 (1) Claudia Pechstein 163.669 40.12 (4) 1:59.26 (2) 4:07.36 (2) 7:05.70 (2) Anni Friesinger 166.014 40.40 (6) 2:01.02 (8) 4:11.57 (3) 7:13.46 (6) 4 Tonny de Jong 166.410 40.87 (11) 2:02.28 (12) 4:12.88 (4) 7:06.34 (3) 5 Jennifer Rodriguez 167.106 40.51 (8) 2:00.63 (6) 4:15.33 (7) 7:18.31 (7) 6 Lyudmila Prokasheva 167.375 41.20 (15) 2:01.72 (9) 4:14.27 (5) 7:12.24 (4) 7 Annamarie Thomas 167.571 40.08 (3) 2:00.12 (5) 4:16.67 (8) 7:26.73 (9) 8 Emese Hunyady 167.922 40.25 (5) 1:59.93 (4) 4:17.09 (9) 7:28.48 (10) 9 Tatyana Trapeznikova 168.046 40.45 (7) 2:02.00 (10) 4:17.47 (10) 7:20.19 (8) 10 Barbara de Loor 168.185 41.67 (19) 2:02.13 (11) 4:15.26 (6) 7:12.62 (5) 11 Becky Sundstrom 168.801 39.97 (2) 2:00.68 (7) 4:19.35 (14) 7:33.80 (11) 12 Chris Witty 168.851 39.45 (1) 1:59.46 (3) 4:22.57 (18) 7:38.20 (12) NC13 Anette Tønsberg 125.072 40.94 (13) 2:03.17 (13) 4:18.46 (12) NC14 Cindy Overland 125.789 41.62 (18) 2:03.71 (14) 4:17.60 (11) NC15 Mie Uehara 126.033 41.35 (16) 2:03.99 (16) 4:20.12 (15) NC16 Noriko Munekata 126.252 41.84 (20) 2:03.80 (15) 4:18.88 (13) NC17 Chiharu Nozaki 126.530 40.88 (12) 2:04.44 (17) 4:25.02 (19) NC18 Varvara Barysheva 126.896 40.59 (10) 2:05.27 (21) 4:27.30 (20) NC19 Mihaela Dascălu 127.178 41.88 (21) 2:04.98 (19) 4:21.83 (17) NC20 Anna Saveljeva 127.336 41.13 (14) 2:04.50 (18) 4:28.24 (22) NC21 Isabelle Doucet 127.890 41.56 (17) 2:05.19 (20) 4:27.60 (21) NC22 Elena Belci-Dal Farra 128.551 42.92 (23) 2:06.75 (23) 4:20.29 (16) NC23 Lise Marie Braathen 129.968 43.05 (24) 2:06.63 (22) 4:28.25 (23) NC24 Svetlana Konstantinova 131.220 42.71 (22) 2:09.66 (25) 4:31.74 (25) NC25 Outi Aunula-Ylä-Sulkava 131.833 43.45 (25) 2:09.37 (24) 4:31.56 (24) NC26 Dana Ionescu 133.229 43.83 (27) 2:09.79 (26) 4:36.82 (26) NC27 Jana Rejhonová 138.740 47.26 (28) 2:14.97 (27) 4:38.94 (27) DQ2 Irina Safrankova 90.191 43.55 (26) - (DQ) 4:39.85 (28)
bold signifies championship record.
References
External links Results on SpeedSkatingNews