World Speed Skating Championships

The International Skating Union organises the following World Championships in the sport of speed skating:

  • Allround
    • Men's Allround
    • Women's Allround
  • Sprint
    • Men's Sprint
    • Women's Sprint
  • Single Distances
    • Men's Single Distances
    • Women's Single Distances
  • Short Track

Famous quotes containing the words world, speed and/or skating:

    “Then how can it be said I am alone
    When all the world is here to look on me?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to remain civilized or to become civilized, the art of association must develop and improve among them at the same speed as equality of conditions spreads.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)