The World Allround Speed Skating Championships are a series of speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 events held annually to determine the best allround speed skater of the world. The International Skating Union

International Skating Union

The International Skating Union is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. It was founded in Scheveningen, Netherlands in 1892, making it one of the oldest international...

 has organised the World Allround Championships for Men

World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men

The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1893. Unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892.-History:-Distances used:...

 since 1893 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892) and the World Allround Championships for Women

World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women

The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women since 1936. Unofficial Championships were held in the years 1933-1935.-Distances used:...

 since 1936 (unofficial Championships were held in the years 1933-1935). Only since 1996 are the men's and women's World Allround Championships held at the same time and venue.

History and medal winners

Combined all-time medal count

Only official tournaments are taken into account

rank	country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	total
1	Netherlands	40	22	39	100
2	Norway	38	33	36	107
3	Soviet Union	32	37	29	98
4	Finland	12	13	5	30
5	Germany	12	12	6	30
6	German Democratic Republic	10	9	6	25
7	United States	9	5	10	24
8	Canada	4	3	4	11
9	Sweden	3	3	6	12
10	Russia	2	4	1	7
11	Italy	1	3	3	7
12	Austria	1	3	2	6
13	Czech Republic	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
15	Japan	0	3	4	7
16	Early Modern France	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	United Kingdom	0	1	0	1
21	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Kingdom of Romania	0	0	1	1
-	Other	5	15	16	36

Amount of World Allround Speed Skating Championships per person

Skater	WC Allround	Country	>|- | Clas Thunberg Clas Thunberg Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz...	5		1929 1928 1925 1923 >- | Oscar Mathisen Oscar Mathisen Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation...	5		1913 1912 1909 1908 >- | Sven Kramer Sven Kramer Sven Kramer is a Dutch long track speed skater. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter in Vancouver 2010, and four-time European and World Allround Champion. He is also three-time world champion and world record holder in the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and the team pursuit...	4		2009 2008 2007 >- | Rintje Ritsma Rintje Ritsma Robert Rintje Ritsma is a former Dutch long track speed skater. His nickname is the Beer van Lemmer, which translates to the Bear from Lemmer.-Speed skating career:He has won the World Allround Championships 4 times...	4		1999 1996 1995 >- | Ivar Ballangrud Ivar Ballangrud Ivar Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in Speed Skating. As the only triple gold medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful athlete there.-Biography:Ivar Ballangrud was one of the best speed skaters in the world for a period of 15...	4		1936 1930 1929 >- | Johann Olav Koss Johann Olav Koss Johann Olav Koss is a former speed skater from Norway, considered to be one of the best in history, and current assistant coach of Norway's speed skating team.-Biography:...	3		1991 1990 >- | Eric Heiden Eric Heiden Eric Arthur Heiden, M.D. is an American former long track speed skater and road cyclist who won all the men's speed skating races, and thus an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York,...	3		1978 1977 >- | Ard Schenk Ard Schenk Adrianus "Ard" Schenk is a former speed skater from the Netherlands, who is considered to be one of the best in history. His first Olympic success came in 1968, when he won a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Between 1970 and 1972 Winter Olympics, Schenk won three consecutive World...	3		1971 1970 >- | Oleg Goncharenko Oleg Goncharenko Oleg Georgievich Goncharenko , Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, was the first male Soviet speed skater to become World Allround Champion....	3		1956 1953 >- | Hjalmar Andersen Hjalmar Andersen Hjalmar "Hjallis" Johan Andersen is a former speed skater from Norway who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games of Oslo, Norway. He was the only triple gold medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics, and as such, became the most successful athlete there.-Short biography:Hjalmar...	3		1951 1950 >- | Michael Staksrud Michael Staksrud Michael Staksrud was a Norwegian World Champion in speed skating.-Biography:Born in Gran, in the district of Hadeland, Staksrud started his speed skating career at Hamar Idrettslag . From 1937 onward, he represented Oslo Skøiteklub...	3		1935 1930 >- | Jaap Eden Jaap Eden Jacobus Johannes "Jaap" Eden was a Dutch athlete. He is the only male athlete to has won world championships in both speed skating and bicycle racing .- Early life :Jaap Eden was born in Groningen to Johannes Eden and Maria Baale...	3		1895 1893 >- | Shani Davis Shani Davis Shani Davis is an Olympic Champion speed skater from the United States.At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Davis became the first Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual sport at the Olympic Winter Games . He also won the silver in the 1,500 m...	2		2005 >- | Gianni Romme Gianni Romme Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Dutch marathon and a former long track speed skater. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....	2		2000 >- | Ids Postma Ids Postma Ids Hylke Postma is a Dutch former speed skater. He is an Olympic gold medalist and former world champion.To some it would seem that Ids Postma made his debut in 1994, but the season before he already finished 2nd at the World Championships Speedskating for Juniors...	2		1997 >- | Bernt Evensen Bernt Evensen Bernt Sverre Evensen was a Norwegian speed skater and racing cyclist.At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Bernt Evensen became the first Norwegian skater to win an Olympic gold medal by winning gold on the 500 m Bernt Sverre Evensen (8 April 1905 in Kristiania (Oslo) – 24 August 1979)...	2		1927 >- | Hein Vergeer Hein Vergeer Henricus Coenradus Nicolaas Vergeer is a Dutch former speed skater who became both European and World Allround Champion in both 1985 and 1986 .Hein Vergeer was a dominant allround skater, but after having recovered from...	2		1985 >- | Kees Verkerk Kees Verkerk Cornelis Arie Verkerk , better known as Kees Verkerk, is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.-Short biography:...	2		1966 >- | Hilbert van der Duim Hilbert van der Duim Hilbert van der Duim is a former speed skater. A two-time world and European champion, Van der Duim "won often but also fell often", and has become famous for some of the incidents that happened to him during his career.-Career:Hilbert van der Duim became World Allround Champion in 1980, being the...	2		1980 >- | Knut Johannesen Knut Johannesen Knut Johannesen is a former speed skater from Norway.-Biography:Born in Oslo and representing the skating club ASK there, Johannesen won the World Allround Championships in 1957 and 1964, the European Allround Championships in 1959 and 1960, and won the Norwegian...	2		1957 >- | Nikolay Strunnikov Nikolay Strunnikov Nikolay Vasilyevich Strunnikov was a Russian World Champion in speed skating. In addition, he was also successful as a cyclist....	2		1910 >- | Peder Østlund Peder Østlund Peder Østlund was a Norwegian speed skater.Peder Østlund held the first position on the Adelskalender ranking during two periods, for a total of almost 10 years . He became World Allround Champion in 1898 and 1899, and became European Allround Champion in 1899 and 1900...	2		1898 >- | Chad Hedrick Chad Hedrick Chad Hedrick is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push or DP...	1		>- | Jochem Uytdehaage Jochem Uytdehaage Jochem Simon Uytdehaage is a former Dutch long track speed skater and two-time Olympic champion. He retired in 2007 at the age of 30, following two consecutive seasons of poor results.-Biography:...	1		>- | Falko Zandstra Falko Zandstra Falko Zandstra is a former Dutch speed skater. Because of his thin legs he was also called de Gespierde Spijker which translates to the Muscular Nail.-Biography:...	1		>- | Roberto Sighel Roberto Sighel Roberto Sighel is a former Italian speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions.His skating career was unusually long, competing at top international level from 1988 to 2002...	1		>- | Leo Visser Leo Visser Leendert Visser is s a former Dutch Speed skater, who in 1989 won the World Allround championship, the same year in which Visser also became European champion....	1		>- | Eric Flaim Eric Flaim Eric Joseph Flaim is a former US speed skater.-Biography:Eric Flaim began skating at the age of 5 on the tiny pond next to his home on Fairwood Drive, Pembroke...	1		>- | Nikolay Gulyayev Nikolay Gulyayev Nikolay Alekseyevich Gulyayev is a former speed skater, considered among the world's best in the 1980s.-Biography:...	1		>- | Oleg Bozhev Oleg Bozhev Oleg Felevich Bozhev is a former speed skater. He trained at VSS Trud.-Short biography:Competing for the Soviet Union, Oleg Bozhev had his best year in 1984 when he won a bronze medal on the 1,500 m at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, became World Allround Champion ten days later, became...	1		>- | Rolf Falk-Larssen Rolf Falk-Larssen Rolf Falk-Larssen is a former speed skater.Representing Trondhjems Skøiteklub, Rolf Falk-Larssen made his international debut at the European Allround Championships of 1982 and he was in the lead after three distances. On the final distance , he was paired against Tomas Gustafson, the number two...	1		>- | Amund Sjøbrend Amund Sjøbrend Amund Martin Sjøbrend is a former ice speed skater from Norway.Together with Sten Stensen, Kay Stenshjemmet, and Jan Egil Storholt, Amund Sjøbrend was one of the legendary four S-es , four Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s...	1		>- | Piet Kleine Piet Kleine Pieter "Piet" Kleine is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.-Short biography:At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Piet Kleine became Olympic Champion on the 10,000 m, beating world record holder Sten Stensen – who won silver – in a close race...	1		>- | Harm Kuipers Harm Kuipers Harm Kuipers is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.Kuipers combined his sports careers with being a Medicine student at the University of Groningen. Preferring his studies over speed skating, he did not participate in the 1972 Winter Olympics, a decision he still regrets today...	1		>- | Sten Stensen Sten Stensen Sten Einar Stensen is a former speed skater.-Short biography:Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Kay Stenshjemmet, and Jan Egil Storholt, Sten Stensen was one of the legendary four S-es , contemporary Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s...	1		>- | Göran Claeson Göran Claeson Göran Claeson is a former speed skater from Sweden.Claeson participated in the 1,500 m at the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble, but finished only 20th. In 1969, at the first European Allround Championships in which Claeson participated, he won bronze. Three weeks later, at the first World...	1		>- | Dag Fornæss Dag Fornæss Dag Fornæss is a former speed skater from Norway who won the Norwegian, European, and World Allround Championships in 1969. He was born in Hamar.-Biography:...	1		>- | Fred Anton Maier Fred Anton Maier Fred Anton Maier is a former speed skater from Norway. He was among the dominating skaters throughout the 1960s, specalising in the longer distances....	1		>- | Per Ivar Moe Per Ivar Moe Per Ivar Moe is a former speed skater from Norway.-Biography:In 1963, 18 year old Per Ivar Moe won bronze at the European Allround Championships, an achievement he would repeat the following year . In addition, in 1964, he became the first in 8 years to beat Knut Johannesen at the Norwegian...	1		>- | Jonny Nilsson Jonny Nilsson Erling Martin Jonny Nilsson is a former speed skater from Sweden.-Biography:He was born in Göteborg. Sixty Five days before his 20th birthday, Jonny Nilsson made his international debut at the European Allround Championships in 1962, finishing 15th...	1		>- | Viktor Kosichkin Viktor Kosichkin Viktor Ivanovich Kosichkin is a former speed skater who competed for the Soviet Union.Viktor Kosichkin trained at Dynamo. He participated in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. On the 5,000 m, held on his 22nd birthday, he gave himself a great birthday gift by winning gold, while the...	1		>- | Henk van der Grift Henk van der Grift Hendrik van der Grift is a former speed skater.Henk van der Grift participated in the 1960 Winter Olympics. On the 500 m, he finished 10th and he fell on the 1,500 m. Not satisfied with training facilities in the Netherlands, he lived in Norway for a while, working as a car mechanic...	1		>- | Boris Stenin Boris Stenin Boris Andrianovich Stenin was a Soviet speed skater, speed skating coach, and speed skating scientist.Living in Sverdlovsk, Stenin met and married fellow skater Valentina Stenina during the early days of his speed skating career...	1		>- | Juhani Järvinen Juhani Järvinen Jouko Juhani Järvinen was a Finnish speed skater, allround world champion and world record holder on 1500m.He was born in Tuulos and died in Helsinki. He was the father of Timo Järvinen....	1		>- | Sigvard Ericsson Sigvard Ericsson John Sigvard "Sigge" Ericsson is a former speed skater.Ericsson started competing internationally in 1951 at the European Allround Championships where he did not qualify for the final distance...	1		>- | Boris Shilkov Boris Shilkov Boris Arsenevich Shilkov is a former speed skater.- Short biography :Competing for the Soviet Union, Boris Shilkov lived in Leningrad , where he worked as an engineer...	1		>- | Kornél Pajor Kornél Pajor Kornél Pajor is a former speed skating World Champion from Hungary. He was born in Budapest.In early 1943, Pajor was a young and promising skater of 19 years old, but because World War II was in progress there were not many competitions. In Klagenfurt, Austria, at one of the few skating...	1		>- | Odd Lundberg Odd Lundberg Odd Lundberg was a speed skater from Norway.Lundberg became World Allround Champion in Helsinki in 1948, finished third in Oslo in 1949, and second in Eskilstuna in 1950. He also won a competition in Bislett, Oslo in 1946, which was announced as unofficial World Championships. At the 1948 Winter...	1		>- | Lassi Parkkinen Lassi Parkkinen Lauri Rikhard Parkkinen was a Finnish speed skater.Lassi Parkkinen was born in Varkaus, an industrial town in the southeast of Finland. He made his debut at the World Allround Championships in 1938, finishing ninth...	1		>- | Birger Wasenius Birger Wasenius Birger Wasenius was a Finnish World Champion in speed skating. He was born in Helsinki.Wasenius reached the world top in 1933 when he won a silver medal at the European Allround Championships...	1		>- | Hans Engnestangen Hans Engnestangen Hans Engnestangen was a Norwegian speed skater and world champion. He held the world records on both the 500 and 1500 meter distance for more than ten years....	1		>- | Roald Larsen Roald Larsen Roald Morel Larsen was a World Champion speed skater from Norway. He was born in Kristiania ....	1		>- | Harald Strøm Harald Strøm Harald Strøm was a Norwegian speed skater, world champion, European champion and world record holder on 5000 metres...	1		>- | Coen de Koning Coen de Koning Coen de Koning was the second Dutch speed skating World Champion.Born in Edam, North Holland, Netherlands, he won the speed skating title in his only World Championship competition in 1905 in Groningen , Groningen , Netherlands...	1		>- | Sigurd Mathisen Sigurd Mathisen Sigurd Mathisen was a Norwegian speed skater, world champion and world record holder on 500m. He was an older brother of Oscar Mathisen.-International championships:...	1		>- | Franz Frederik Wathén	1		>- | Edvard Engelsaas Edvard Engelsaas Edvard Engelsaas was a Norwegian speed skater and world champion.Engelsaas won a gold medal at the 1900 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men, after winning three of the distances, the 1500m, 5000m and 10000m.-National championships:He received a silver medal at the 1898 Norwegian...	1		>- | Jack McCulloch Jack McCulloch Jack McCulloch was a Canadian speed skater and ice hockey player. He won several Canadian amateur speed skating championships and one world championship.ex-Sports career:...	1		1897