News
Latest DB update on January 14 2022.
January 12 2022:
I changed Nur-Sultan to Astana again, it's a statement....
December 27 2021:
Limits men:
500m: 42,5
1000m: 1.27,0
1500m: 2.13,0
3000m: 4.27,0
5000m: 8.20,0
10000m: all
Limits women:
500m: 47,00
1000m: 1.37,0
1500m: 2.30,0
3000m: 5.30,0
5000m: all
10000m: all
November 9 2021:
When I update the file there may not be correct info for two minutes.
Then it's a moment of patience...
November 2 2021:
You can search skaters by part of a name. Type "vold" and you get Grønvold as an example.
October 12 2021:
Season has started the past two weeks! Hope covid stays under control!
About
This site is a Database for everyone who's interested in Personal Best and "Adelskalenderen" Speed Skating for Men and Women.
Special thanks to Frans van Bakel, Paul Schlösser, for the information I got from them! Without their help this database would not exist.
A quick summary of the sources of information used:
- Preben G Petersen (WSSSA) provided lots of data and the help of Paul Schlösser.
- The early years the books from Jan Kleine “Schaatsjaarboek” (until 1973), papers and a lot of books in Dutch about speedskating
- WSSSA books a lot of the them, editor Trond Eng from Askim (Norge)
- Schaatsseizoen, publication from “Stichting Schaatsseizoen” editor(s) Hedman Bijlsma and friends it’s published every year
- From the internet, shown as links on the home page and a lot of more internet adresses
- Yahoo groups about (speed)skating
- Jakub Majerski and his website sskating.com
- SpeedSkatingStats (speedskatingstats.com)
- Others which I may have forgotten...
