2012 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships

Host City	Heerenveen
Country	NED
Held	22 – 25 March 2012
Competitors	135
Countries	21

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Netherlands	NED	5	5	4	14
2	Canada	CAN	3	1	0	4
3	Czech Republic	CZE	2	0	0	2
=	South Korea	KOR	2	0	0	2
5	Germany	GER	0	2	1	3
6	China	CHN	0	2	0	2
7	United States	USA	0	1	3	4
8	Russia	RUS	0	1	1	2
9	Finland	FIN	0	0	1	1
=	Norway	NOR	0	0	1	1
=	Poland	POL	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
500 m, Men	Mo Tae-Beom	KOR	Michel Mulder	NED	Pekka Koskela	FIN
1,000 m, Men	Stefan Groothuis	NED	Kjeld Nuis	NED	Shani Davis	USA
1,500 m, Men	Denny Morrison	CAN	Ivan Skobrev	RUS	Håvard Bøkko	NOR
5,000 m, Men	Sven Kramer	NED	Bob de Jong	NED	Jonathan Kuck	USA
10,000 m, Men	Bob de Jong	NED	Jorrit Bergsma	NED	Jonathan Kuck	USA
Team Pursuit, Men	Netherlands	NED	United States	USA	Russia	RUS
500 m, Women	Lee Sang-Hwa	KOR	Yu Jing	CHN	Thijsje Oenema	NED
1,000 m, Women	Christine Nesbitt	CAN	Yu Jing	CHN	Margot Boer	NED
1,500 m, Women	Christine Nesbitt	CAN	Ireen Wüst	NED	Linda de Vries	NED
3,000 m, Women	Martina Sáblíková	CZE	Stephanie Beckert	GER	Ireen Wüst	NED
5,000 m, Women	Martina Sáblíková	CZE	Stephanie Beckert	GER	Claudia Pechstein	GER
Team Pursuit, Women	Netherlands	NED	Canada	CAN	Poland	POL