News
Latest DB update on September 21 2021.
August 13 2021:
Please email me if you find any errors. Click the "envelope" icon on the top right of the home page
August 12 2021:
First races this season in Calgary, Inzell, Hamar and Tomaszów
May 6 2021:
Added many finnish skaters from the 1930s. Thanks Paul Schlösser for the additions
February 24 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: 1.38,0
1500m: 2.30,0
3000m: 5.30,0
5000m: all
10000m: all
February 14 2014:
You now can choose a Nation for the rankings!
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...
