1912 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
# 1912 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

The 1912 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 17 and 18 February 1912 at the ice rink Gamle Frogner in Kristiania, Norway.

Nikolay Strunnikov was defending champion but did not take part in these championships. Oscar Mathisen had the lowest number of points awarded and won all four distances. He became World champion for the third time. He and Jaap Eden are the only ice-skaters winning the World championship three times (so far).

## Allround results

| Place | Athlete | Country | Points | 500m | 5000m | 1500m | 10000m |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | Oscar Mathisen | Norway | 4 | 44.2 (1) | 8:45.2 (1) | 2:20.8 (1) | 17:46.3 (1) |
| | Gunnar Strömstén | Finland | 10,5 | 47.0 (5) | 8:53.3 (3) | 2:26.1 (2) | 18:13.3 (2) |
| | Trygve Lundgreen | Norway | 12,5 | 47.0 (5) | 8:52.5 (2) | 2:27.3 (4) | 18:15.3 (3) |
| 4 | Martin Sæterhaug | Norway | 19 | 46.6 (3) | 9:11.9 (7) | 2:26.3 (3) | 18:57.9 (7) |
| 5 | Ernst Cederlöf | Sweden | 20 | 47.2 (7) | 9:06.6 (4) | 2:28.2 (5) | 18:18.2 (6) |
| 6 | Stener Johannessen | Norway | 22 | 48.1 (10) | 9:07.1 (5) | 2:28.3 (6) | 18:16.8 (5) |
| 7 | Vasili Ippolitov | Russia | 24,5 | 48.2 (11) | 9:07.9 (6) | 2:28.9 (7) | 18:16.7 (4) |
| 8 | Einar Berntsen | Norway | 31,5 | 48.2 (11) | 9:27.7 (9) | 2:32.4 (8) | 19:16.4 (8) |
| 9 | Olaf Hansen | Norway | 36 | 51.0 (14) | 9:47.7 (11) | 2:39.8 (13) | 19:57.2 (9) |
| NC | Magnus Herseth | Norway | - | 47.7 (9) | 10:05.6 (14) | 2:35.8 (11) | NF |
| NC | Thoralf Thoresen | Norway | - | 47.5 (8) | 9:47.6 (10) | 2:35.2 (10) | NF |
| NC | Bjarne Frang | Norway | - | 46.7 (4) | 9:57.6 (13) | 2:33.8 (9) | NS |
| NC | Reidar Gundersen | Norway | - | 48.6 (13) | 9:53.0 (12) | 2:38.0 (12) | NS |
| NC | Henning Olsen | Norway | - | 46.2 (2) | 9:14.5 (8) | NS | NS |
| NC | Aksel Mathiesen | Norway | - | NF | NS | NS | NS |

    * = Fell

    NC = Not classified
    NF = Not finished
    NS = Not started
    DQ = Disqualified

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

## Rules

Four distances have to be skated:

* 500m
* 1500m
* 5000m
* 10000m

The ranking was made by award ranking points. The points were awarded to the skaters who had skated all the distances. The final ranking was then decided by ordering the skaters by lowest point totals.

* 1 point for 1st place
* 2 point for 2nd place
* 3 point for 3rd place
* and so on

One could win the World Championships also by winning at least three of the four distances, so the ranking could be affected by this.

Silver and bronze medals were awarded.

