World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men
# World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men

The International Skating Union has organised the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1970. The first two years (1970–1971), they were called the ISU Sprint Championships.

## Medal winners

### Sprint championships

| Year | Venue | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1970 | West Allis | Valery Muratov | Keiichi Suzuki | Magne Thomassen |
| 1971 | Inzell | Erhard Keller | Ove König | Ard Schenk |
| 1972 | Eskilstuna | Leo Linkovesi | Valery Muratov | Ard Schenk |
| 1973 | Oslo | Valery Muratov (2) | Jos Valentijn | Eppie Bleeker |
| 1974 | Innsbruck | Per Bjørang | Masaki Suzuki | Eppie Bleeker |
| 1975 | Gothenburg | Aleksandr Safronov | Yevgeny Kulikov | Valery Muratov |
| 1976 | West Berlin | Johan Granath | Dan Immerfall | Peter Mueller |
| 1977 | Alkmaar | Eric Heiden | Peter Mueller | Yevgeny Kulikov |
| 1978 | Lake Placid | Eric Heiden | Frode Rønning | Johan Granath |
| 1979 | Inzell | Eric Heiden | Gaétan Boucher | Frode Rønning |
| 1980 | West Allis | Eric Heiden (4) | Gaétan Boucher | Tom Plant |
| 1981 | Grenoble | Frode Rønning | Sergey Khlebnikov | Anatoly Medennikov |
| 1982 | Alkmaar | Sergey Khlebnikov | Gaétan Boucher | Frode Rønning |
| 1983 | Helsinki | Akira Kuroiwa | Pavel Pegov | Hilbert van der Duim |
| 1984 | Trondheim | Gaétan Boucher | Sergey Khlebnikov | Kai Arne Engelstad |
| 1985 | Heerenveen | Igor Zhelezovski | Gaétan Boucher | Dan Jansen |
| 1986 | Karuizawa | Igor Zhelezovski | Dan Jansen | Akira Kuroiwa |
| 1987 | Sainte Foy | Akira Kuroiwa (2) | Nick Thometz | Yukihiro Mitani |
| 1988 | West Allis | Dan Jansen | Uwe-Jens Mey | Eric Flaim |
| 1989 | Heerenveen | Igor Zhelezovski | Uwe-Jens Mey | Andrey Bakhvalov |
| 1990 | Tromsø | Bae Ki-tae | Andrey Bakhvalov | Igor Zhelezovski |
| 1991 | Inzell | Igor Zhelezovski | Uwe-Jens Mey | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa |
| 1992 | Oslo | Igor Zhelezovski | Dan Jansen | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa |
| 1993 | Ikaho | Igor Zhelezovski (6) | Yasunori Miyabe | Hiroyasu Shimizu |
| 1994 | Calgary | Dan Jansen (2) | Sergey Klevchenya | Junichi Inoue |
| 1995 | Milwaukee | Kim Yoon-man | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Yasunori Miyabe |
| 1996 | Heerenveen | Sergey Klevchenya | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Manabu Horii |
| 1997 | Hamar | Sergey Klevchenya (2) | Roger Strøm | Casey FitzRandolph |
| 1998 | Berlin | Jan Bos | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Erben Wennemars |
| 1999 | Calgary | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Jan Bos | Hiroyasu Shimizu |
| 2000 | Seoul | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Mike Ireland | Hiroyasu Shimizu |
| 2001 | Inzell | Mike Ireland | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Jeremy Wotherspoon |
| 2002 | Hamar | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Casey FitzRandolph | Mike Ireland |
| 2003 | Calgary | Jeremy Wotherspoon (4) | Gerard van Velde | Erben Wennemars |
| 2004 | Nagano | Erben Wennemars | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Mike Ireland |
| 2005 | Salt Lake City | Erben Wennemars (2) | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Joey Cheek |
| 2006 | Heerenveen | Joey Cheek | Dmitry Dorofeyev | Jan Bos |
| 2007 | Hamar | Lee Kyou-hyuk | Pekka Koskela | Shani Davis |
| 2008 | Heerenveen | Lee Kyou-hyuk | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Mun Jun |
| 2009 | Moscow | Shani Davis | Keiichiro Nagashima | Simon Kuipers |
| 2010 | Obihiro | Lee Kyou-hyuk | Lee Kang-seok | Keiichiro Nagashima |
| 2011 | Heerenveen | Lee Kyou-hyuk (4) | Mo Tae-bum | Shani Davis |
| 2012 | Calgary | Stefan Groothuis | Lee Kyou-hyuk | Mo Tae-bum |
| 2013 | Salt Lake City | Michel Mulder | Pekka Koskela | Hein Otterspeer |
| 2014 | Nagano | Michel Mulder (2) | Shani Davis | Daniel Greig |
| 2015 | Astana | Pavel Kulizhnikov | Hein Otterspeer | Aleksey Yesin |
| 2016 | Seoul | Pavel Kulizhnikov | Kjeld Nuis | Kai Verbij |
| 2017 | Calgary | Kai Verbij | Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen | Kjeld Nuis |
| 2018 | Changchun | Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen | Kjeld Nuis | Kai Verbij |
| 2019 | Heerenveen | Pavel Kulizhnikov (3) | Tatsuya Shinhama | Kjeld Nuis |
| 2020 | Hamar | Tatsuya Shinhama | Laurent Dubreuil | Cha Min-kyu |
| 2022 | Hamar | Thomas Krol | Kai Verbij | Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen |

**Medal table**

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Netherlands | 8 | 7 | 14 | 29 |
| 2 | United States | 8 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 8 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
| 4 | Canada | 6 | 10 | 3 | 19 |
| 5 | South Korea | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 6 | Russia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Japan | 3 | 8 | 11 | 22 |
| 8 | Norway | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 9 | Finland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Belarus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | CIS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | West Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | East Germany | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 52 | 52 | 52 | 156 |

### Team sprint

| Year | Venue | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2022 | Hamar | Norway Bjørn Magnussen Henrik Fagerli Rukke Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen | Poland Marek Kania Piotr Michalski Damian Żurek | Netherlands Merijn Scheperkamp Kai Verbij Thomas Krol |

**Medal table**

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |

## Combined medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Netherlands | 8 | 7 | 15 | 30 |
| 2 | United States | 8 | 7 | 8 | 23 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 8 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
| 4 | Canada | 6 | 10 | 3 | 19 |
| 5 | South Korea | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 6 | Russia | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Norway | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | Japan | 3 | 8 | 11 | 22 |
| 9 | Finland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Belarus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | CIS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | West Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | East Germany | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Poland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Australia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | Totals (17 entries) | 53 | 53 | 53 | 159 |

## World champions (individual sprint)

As of 2022.

| Skater | | | | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| // Igor Zhelezovski | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Jeremy Wotherspoon | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| Lee Kyou-hyuk | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Eric Heiden | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Pavel Kulizhnikov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Dan Jansen | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Valery Muratov | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Sergey Klevchenya | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Erben Wennemars | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Akira Kuroiwa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Michel Mulder | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gaétan Boucher | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Sergey Khlebnikov | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Shani Davis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mike Ireland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Frode Rønning | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Kai Verbij | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Jan Bos | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Tatsuya Shinhama | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Joey Cheek | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Johan Granath | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Bae Ki-tae | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Per Bjørang | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Stefan Groothuis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Erhard Keller | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kim Yoon-man | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Thomas Krol | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Leo Linkovesi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Aleksandr Safronov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
