World Allround Speed Skating Championships
Venue	M-Wave, Nagano
Dates	14–16 February
Competitors	36 (M), 30 (W) from 23 nations
Medalist men
Ids Postma  NED Keiji Shirahata  JPN Frank Dittrich  GER
Medalist women
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  GER Claudia Pechstein  GER Tonny de Jong  NED

The 1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 14–16 February 1997 in the M-Wave stadium in Nagano, Japan.

Title defenders were the 1996 world champions Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Rintje Ritsma from the Netherlands.

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Ids Postma from the Netherlands became world champions.

Allround results

Men

Place	Athlete	Country	Points	500 m	5000 m	1500 m	10000 m
	Ids Postma	Netherlands	157.906	37.36 (2)	6:49.09 (8)	1:51.78 (1)	14:07.54 (4)
	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	158.466	37.59 (3)	6:47.46 (3)	1:53.20 (6)	14:07.95 (5)
	Frank Dittrich	Germany	158.697	38.87 (19)	6:43.74 (2)	1:54.10 (9)	13:48.40 (2)
4	K. C. Boutiette	United States	158.739	37.93 (7)	6:48.62 (5)	1:52.53 (2)	14:08.75 (6)
5	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	159.090	37.99 (9)	6:48.96 (7)	1:53.12 (5)	14:09.97 (7)
6	Bart Veldkamp	Belgium	159.209	39.61 (26)	6:43.26 (1)	1:54.57 (11)	13:41.66 (1)
7	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	160.461	37.70 (4)	6:51.32 (11)	1:53.11 (4)	14:38.53 (11)
8	Toru Aoyanagi	Japan	160.900	38.16 (12)	6:56.23 (13)	1:54.17 (10)	14:21.22 (8)
9	Neal Marshall	Canada	161.067	37.96 (8)	6:59.02 (17)	1:53.68 (7)	14:26.24 (9)
10	Dave Tamburrino	United States	161.454	38.37 (15)	6:53.35 (12)	1:55.01 (12)	14:28.27 (10)
11	Lasse Sætre	Norway	161.503	40.10 (30)	6:47.97 (4)	1:56.65 (22)	13:54.46 (3)
12	Jason Parker	Canada	163.034	38.17 (13)	7:05.64 (25)	1:52.96 (3)	14:52.95 (12)
NC13	Kevin Marshall	Canada	118.418	38.01 (10)	7:00.15 (19)	1:55.18 (14)
NC14	Falko Zandstra	Netherlands	118.621	38.06 (11)	7:01.35 (22)	1:55.28 (15)
NC15	Uwe Tonat	Germany	118.627	39.21 (14)	6:50.74 (10)	1:55.03 (13)
NC16	Anatoli Krasheninin	Russia	119.208	38.94 (21)	6:56.62 (15)	1:55.82 (18)
NC17	Marnix ten Kortenaar	Austria	119.593	39.06 (22)	6:58.87 (16)	1:55.94 (19)
NC18	Ermanno Ioriatti	Italy	120.043	37.74 (5)	7:12.20 (29)	1:57.25 (23)
NC19	Dmitry Shepel	Russia	120.063	38.64 (17)	7:09.33 (27)	1:55.47 (16)
NC20	Tim Hoffmann	United States	120.140	38.25 (14)	7:13.20 (30)	1:55.71 (17)
NC21	Lee Kyou-hyuk	South Korea	120.181	37.14 (1)	7:23.58 (34)	1:56.05 (20)
NC22	Roberto Sighel	Italy	120.274	38.84 (18)	7:02.68 (23)	1:57.50 (25)
NC23	Radik Bikchentayev	Kazakhstan	120.295	39.21 (24)	7:03.62 (24)	1:56.17 (21)
NC24	Jonas Schön	Sweden	120.768	39.67 (27)	7:00.15 (19)	1:57.25 (23)
NC25	Christian Breuer	Germany	121.214	39.18 (23)	7:07.38 (26)	1:57.89 (26)
NC26	Jaromir Radke	Poland	121.241	40.31 (32)	6:56.25 (14)	1:57.92 (27)
NC27	Cédric Kuentz	France	121.287	39.68 (28)	7:01.14 (21)	1:58.48 (28)
NC28	Davide Carta	Italy	121.399	37.86 (6)	7:19.99 (33)	1:58.62 (29)
NC29	Vitali Novichenko	Belarus	121.642	38.88 (20)	7:11.32 (28)	1:58.89 (30)
NC30	Kjell Storelid	Norway	121.701	40.90 (34)	6:49.45 (9)	1:59.57 (32)
NC31	Martin Feigenwinter	Switzerland	123.335	41.25 (35)	6:59.95 (18)	2:00.27 (34)
NC32	Boris Uvarov	Ukraine	123.617	40.21 (31)	7:14.84 (31)	1:59.77 (33)
NC33	Andrew Nicholson	New Zealand	124.450	39.81 (29)	7:19.57 (32)	2:02.05 (35)
NC34	Cédric Michaud	France	127.012	40.87 (33)	7:28.32 (35)	2:03.93 (36)
NC35	Paweł Zygmunt	Poland	127.853	38.50 (16)	8:15.50 (36f)	1:59.41 (31)
NC36	Vadim Sayutin	Russia	78.823	- (DQ)	6:48.63 (6)	1:53.88 (8)

bold signifies championship record.

Women

Place	Athlete	Country	Points	500 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m
	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann	Germany	165.708 WR	40.79 (2)	2:00.51 (1)	4:10.40 (1)	7:10.15 (1)
	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	168.179	41.31 (9)	2:02.52 (3)	4:13.95 (2)	7:17.04 (3)
	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	168.206	41.09 (6)	2:03.08 (5)	4:15.91 (3)	7:14.39 (2)
4	Anni Friesinger	Germany	168.751	41.52 (13)	2:02.00 (2)	4:16.24 (4)	7:18.59 (4)
5	Annamarie Thomas	Netherlands	169.605	40.53 (1)	2:02.79 (4)	4:18.45 (6)	7:30.70 (9)
6	Svetlana Bazhanova	Russia	169.695	41.61 (14)	2:03.47 (6)	4:17.77 (5)	7:19.68 (6)
7	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	170.125	41.93 (17)	2:03.48 (7)	4:18.68 (8)	7:19.22 (5)
8	Mie Uehara	Japan	170.733	41.28 (8)	2:03.57 (8)	4:21.47 (11)	7:26.85 (7)
9	Barbara de Loor	Netherlands	171.764	41.99 (18)	2:05.24 (12)	4:18.51 (7)	7:29.43 (8)
10	Chiharu Nozaki	Japan	172.490	41.08 (5)	2:04.58 (9)	4:25.96 (18)	7:35.58 (10)
11	Becky Sundstrom	United States	173.344	40.89 (3)	2:05.66 (13)	4:26.51 (19)	7:41.50 (11)
12	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	174.087	41.75 (15)	2:05.21 (11)	4:23.51 (13)	7:46.83 (12)
NC13	Emese Hunyady	Austria	127.623	41.24 (7)	2:06.33 (16)	4:25.64 (16)
NC14	Anette Tønsberg	Norway	127.823	42.22 (19)	2:06.09 (14)	4:21.44 (10)
NC15	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	127.999	41.38 (10)	2:07.72 (18)	4:24.28 (15)
NC16	Kirstin Holum	United States	128.009	43.05 (24)	2:05.11 (10)	4:19.54 (9)
NC17	Tatyana Trapeznikova	Russia	128.104	42.22 (19)	2:06.14 (15)	4:23.03 (12)
NC18	Moira D'Andrea	United States	128.169	41.07 (4)	2:06.50 (17)	4:29.60 (21)
NC19	Noriko Munekata	Japan	129.471	42.45 (22)	2:09.10 (20)	4:23.93 (14)
NC20	Cindy Overland	Canada	129.838	42.47 (23)	2:08.11 (19)	4:27.99 (20)
NC21	You Yanchun	China	130.299	41.42 (11)	2:09.85 (21)	4:33.58 (22)
NC22	Cerasela Hordobețiu	Romania	131.369	42.40 (21)	2:10.12 (23)	4:33.58 (22)
NC23	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	Italy	131.728	43.98 (30)	2:10.35 (24)	4:25.79 (17)
NC24	Krisztina Egyed	Hungary	132.270	41.89 (16)	2:10.11 (22)	4:42.06 (28)
NC25	Christina Schön	Sweden	132.521	43.24 (26)	2:10.91 (25)	4:33.87 (24)
NC26	Svetlana Konstantinova	Ukraine	132.863	43.43 (28)	2:11.20 (27)	4:34.20 (26)
NC27	Chiara Simionato	Italy	132.884	43.24 (26)	2:11.92 (29)	4:34.03 (25)
NC28	Ingrid Liepa	Canada	133.482	43.21 (25)	2:11.15 (26)	4:39.34 (27)
NC29	Kang Mi-yeong	South Korea	133.640	41.45 (12)	2:11.91 (28)	4:49.32 (30)
NC30	Ilonda Lūse	Latvia	136.215	43.78 (29)	2:14.16 (30)	4:46.29 (29)

bold signifies championship record.

References

External links

• Results on SpeedSkatingNews