World Championship Sprint

This page lists all information available on the World Championship Sprint. The subnavigation allows you to quickly retrieve the complete 'History' of the top 3 results. In the corresponding medal summary table you can click on a specific year to go to the full results of that year. The right-hand side of the subnavigation links to different 'Statistics' of the World Championship Sprint. The statistics will be updated automatically after every championship.

Medal summary World Championship Sprint Men

#	year	place		gold		silver		bronze
ISU Championship Sprint
champion: winner of three out of four distances, else skater with lowest points
1	1970	West Allis	USA	Valery Muratov	URS	Keiichi Suzuki	JPN	Magne Thomassen	NOR
2	1971	Inzell	FRG	Erhard Keller	FRG	Ove König	SWE	Ard Schenk	NED
World Championship Sprint
champion: winner of three out of four distances, else skater with lowest points
3	1972	Eskilstuna	SWE	Leo Linkovesi	FIN	Valery Muratov	URS	Ard Schenk	NED
4	1973	Oslo	NOR	Valery Muratov	URS	Jos Valentijn	NED	Eppie Bleeker	NED
5	1974	Innsbruck	AUT	Per Bjørang	NOR	Masaki Suzuki	JPN	Eppie Bleeker	NED
6	1975	Göteborg	SWE	Aleksandr Safronov	URS	Yevgeny Kulikov	URS	Valery Muratov	URS
7	1976	West Berlin	FRG	Johan Granath	SWE	Dan Immerfall	USA	Peter Mueller	USA
8	1977	Alkmaar	NED	Eric Heiden	USA	Peter Mueller	USA	Yevgeny Kulikov	URS
9	1978	Lake Placid	USA	Eric Heiden	USA	Frode Rønning	NOR	Johan Granath	SWE
10	1979	Inzell	FRG	Eric Heiden	USA	Gaétan Boucher	CAN	Frode Rønning	NOR
11	1980	West Allis	USA	Eric Heiden	USA	Gaétan Boucher	CAN	Tom Plant	USA
12	1981	Grenoble	FRA	Frode Rønning	NOR	Sergey Khlebnikov	URS	Anatoly Medennikov	URS
13	1982	Alkmaar	NED	Sergey Khlebnikov	URS	Gaétan Boucher	CAN	Frode Rønning	NOR
14	1983	Helsinki	FIN	Akira Kuroiwa	JPN	Pavel Pegov	URS	Hilbert van der Duim	NED
15	1984	Trondheim	NOR	Gaétan Boucher	CAN	Sergey Khlebnikov	URS	Kai Arne Engelstad	NOR
16	1985	Heerenveen	NED	Igor Zhelezovsky	URS	Gaétan Boucher	CAN	Dan Jansen	USA
17	1986	Karuizawa	JPN	Igor Zhelezovsky	URS	Dan Jansen	USA	Akira Kuroiwa	JPN
champion: skater with lowest points
18	1987	Sainte-Foy	CAN	Akira Kuroiwa	JPN	Nick Thometz	USA	Yukihiro Mitani	JPN
19	1988	West Allis	USA	Dan Jansen	USA	Uwe-Jens Mey	GDR	Eric Flaim	USA
20	1989	Heerenveen	NED	Igor Zhelezovsky	URS	Uwe-Jens Mey	GDR	Andrey Bakhvalov	URS
21	1990	Tromsø	NOR	Bae Ki-tae	KOR	Andrey Bakhvalov	URS	Igor Zhelezovsky	URS
22	1991	Inzell	GER	Igor Zhelezovsky	URS	Uwe-Jens Mey	GER	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	JPN
23	1992	Oslo	NOR	Igor Zhelezovsky	CIS	Dan Jansen	USA	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	JPN
24	1993	Ikaho	JPN	Igor Zhelezovsky	BLR	Yasunori Miyabe	JPN	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN
25	1994	Calgary	CAN	Dan Jansen	USA	Sergey Klevchenya	RUS	Junichi Inoue	JPN
26	1995	Milwaukee	USA	Kim Yoon-man	KOR	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN	Yasunori Miyabe	JPN
27	1996	Heerenveen	NED	Sergey Klevchenya	RUS	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN	Manabu Horii	JPN
28	1997	Hamar	NOR	Sergey Klevchenya	RUS	Roger Strøm	NOR	Casey FitzRandolph	USA
29	1998	Berlin	GER	Jan Bos	NED	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Erben Wennemars	NED
30	1999	Calgary	CAN	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Jan Bos	NED	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN
31	2000	Seoul	KOR	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Mike Ireland	CAN	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN
32	2001	Inzell	GER	Mike Ireland	CAN	Hiroyasu Shimizu	JPN	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN
33	2002	Hamar	NOR	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Casey FitzRandolph	USA	Mike Ireland	CAN
34	2003	Calgary	CAN	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Gerard van Velde	NED	Erben Wennemars	NED
35	2004	Nagano	JPN	Erben Wennemars	NED	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Mike Ireland	CAN
36	2005	Salt Lake City	USA	Erben Wennemars	NED	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Joey Cheek	USA
37	2006	Heerenveen	NED	Joey Cheek	USA	Dmitry Dorofeyev	RUS	Jan Bos	NED
38	2007	Hamar	NOR	Lee Kyou-hyuk	KOR	Pekka Koskela	FIN	Shani Davis	USA
39	2008	Heerenveen	NED	Lee Kyou-hyuk	KOR	Jeremy Wotherspoon	CAN	Mun Joon	KOR
40	2009	Moscow	RUS	Shani Davis	USA	Keiichiro Nagashima	JPN	Simon Kuipers	NED
41	2010	Obihiro	JPN	Lee Kyou-hyuk	KOR	Lee Kang-seok	KOR	Keiichiro Nagashima	JPN
42	2011	Heerenveen	NED	Lee Kyou-hyuk	KOR	Mo Tae-bum	KOR	Shani Davis	USA
43	2012	Calgary	CAN	Stefan Groothuis	NED	Lee Kyou-hyuk	KOR	Mo Tae-bum	KOR
44	2013	Salt Lake City	USA	Michel Mulder	NED	Pekka Koskela	FIN	Hein Otterspeer	NED
45	2014	Nagano	JPN	Michel Mulder	NED	Shani Davis	USA	Daniel Greig	AUS
46	2015	Astana	KAZ	Pavel Kulizhnikov	RUS	Hein Otterspeer	NED	Aleksey Yesin	RUS
47	2016	Seoul	KOR	Pavel Kulizhnikov	RUS	Kjeld Nuis	NED	Kai Verbij	NED
48	2017	Calgary	CAN	Kai Verbij	NED	Håvard Lorentzen	NOR	Kjeld Nuis	NED
49	2018	Changchun	CHN	Håvard Lorentzen	NOR	Kjeld Nuis	NED	Kai Verbij	NED
50	2019	Heerenveen	NED	Pavel Kulizhnikov	RUS	Tatsuya Shinhama	JPN	Kjeld Nuis	NED
51	2020	Hamar	NOR	Tatsuya Shinhama	JPN	Laurent Dubreuil	CAN	Cha Min-kyu	KOR