The 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships were held between 11 and 14 February 2021, at Thialf in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Schedule All times are local (UTC+1).
Date Time Events11 February 14:50 3000 m ladies 16:01 5000 m men12 February 15:10 Team pursuit ladies 15:33 Team pursuit men 16:13 500 m men 16:56 500 m ladies13 February 15:13 1000 m ladies 16:02 1000 m men 16:55 Mass start final ladies 17:10 Mass start final men14 February 12:35 1500 m ladies 13:32 1500 m men 14:28 5000 m ladies 15:35 10000 m men
Russia doping ban On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021-2022 World Championships and 2022 Summer Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. After reviewing the case on appeal, CAS ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed on Russia. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.
Medal summary Medal table
Men's events 500 mMen's 500 metres results 34.398 Pavel Kulizhnikov Russian Skating Union 34.540 34.628 1000 mMen's 1000 metres results 1:08.052 Pavel Kulizhnikov Russian Skating Union 1:08.313 1:08.569 1500 mMen's 1500 metres results 1:43.752 1:44.110 1:45.493 5000 mMen's 5000 metres results 6:08.395NR 6:10.050 Sergey Trofimov Russian Skating Union 6:13.020 10000 mMen's 10000 metres results 12:32.952WR 12:45.868 Aleksandr Rumyantsev Russian Skating Union 12:54.746NR Team pursuitMen's Team pursuit results Marcel BoskerPatrick RoestBeau Snellink 3:41.429 Jordan BelchosTed-Jan BloemenConnor Howe 3:41.711 Russian Skating UnionDanila SemerikovSergey TrofimovRuslan Zakharov 3:42.662 Mass startMen's mass start results 60 40 21
Women's events 500 mWomen's 500 metres results Angelina Golikova Russian Skating Union 37.141 37.281 Olga Fatkulina Russian Skating Union 37.455 1000 mWomen's 1000 metres results 1:14.128 1:14.672 Elizaveta Golubeva Russian Skating Union 1:14.848 1500 mWomen's 1500 metres results 1:54.613 1:55.034 Evgeniia Lalenkova Russian Skating Union 1:55.099 3000 mWomen's 3000 metres results 3:58.470 3:58.579 3:59.757 5000 mWomen's 5000 metres results 6:48.537 Natalya Voronina Russian Skating Union 6:50.997 6:52.220 Team pursuitWomen's Team pursuit results Antoinette de JongIrene SchoutenIreen Wüst 2:55.795 Ivanie BlondinValérie MaltaisIsabelle Weidemann 2:55.973 Russian Skating UnionElizaveta GolubevaEvgeniia LalenkovaNatalya Voronina 2:59.358 Mass startWomen's mass start results 60 42 20
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