List of speed skaters

The following is a list of notable ice speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline (long-track or short-track), gender and competing nationality.

American

 * Ryan Bedford
 * K. C. Boutiette
 * Kip Carpenter
 * Joey Cheek
 * Shani Davis
 * John Farrell
 * Casey FitzRandolph
 * Eric Flaim
 * Tucker Fredricks
 * Chad Hedrick
 * Eric Heiden
 * Ken Henry
 * Irving Jaffee
 * Dan Jansen
 * Charles Jewtraw
 * Jonathan Kuck
 * Charles Ryan Leveille
 * Trevor Marsicano
 * Terry McDermott
 * Peter Mueller
 * Apolo Ohno
 * Derek Parra
 * Tom Plant
 * Andy Roesch
 * Jack Shea
 * Nick Thometz

Australian

 * Colin Coates
 * Colin Hickey
 * Danny Kah
 * Kenneth Kennedy
 * Michael Richmond
 * Phillip Tahmindjis

Austrian

 * Roland Brunner
 * Christian Eminger
 * Michael Hadschieff
 * Werner Jäger
 * Heinz Steinberger

Belarusian

 * Igor Zhelezovski (also competed for Soviet Union)

Belgian

 * Bart Veldkamp (also competed in the Netherlands)
 * Bart Swings

British

 * Bryan Carbis
 * Julian Green
 * Wilf O'Reilly

Canadian

 * Andrew Barron
 * Gaétan Boucher
 * Sylvain Bouchard
 * Arne Dankers
 * Steven Elm
 * Mike Ireland
 * Patrick Kelly
 * Neal Marshall
 * Denny Morrison
 * Jason Parker
 * Kevin Scott
 * Justin Warsylewicz
 * Jeremy Wotherspoon

Colombian

 * Pedro Causil

Czech

 * Milan Sáblík

Dutch

 * Henk Angenent
 * Jan Bazen
 * Jeen van den Berg
 * Jelmer Beulenkamp
 * Ted-Jan Bloemen (also competed for Canada)
 * Jan Blokhuijsen
 * Lieuwe de Boer
 * Jan Bols
 * Jan Bos
 * Thomas Bos
 * Kees Broekman
 * Ben van der Burg
 * Jappie van Dijk
 * Hilbert van der Duim
 * Jaap Eden
 * Henk van der Grift
 * Stefan Groothuis
 * Hans van Helden (also competed for France)
 * Martin Hersman
 * Wouter olde Heuvel
 * Bob de Jong
 * Jorrit Jorritsma
 * Gerard Kemkers
 * Piet Kleine
 * Coen de Koning
 * Sven Kramer
 * Yep Kramer
 * Harm Kuipers
 * Simon Kuipers
 * Jakko Jan Leeuwangh
 * Rudie Liebrechts
 * Michel Mulder
 * Ronald Mulder
 * Beorn Nijenhuis
 * Tom Prinsen
 * Ids Postma
 * Rintje Ritsma
 * Gianni Romme
 * Frits Schalij
 * Ard Schenk
 * Jan Smeekens
 * Mark Tuitert
 * Jochem Uytdehaage
 * Gerard van Velde
 * Bart Veldkamp (also competed for Belgium)
 * Hein Vergeer
 * Carl Verheijen
 * Kees Verkerk
 * Koen Verweij
 * Leo Visser
 * Erben Wennemars
 * Jan Ykema
 * Falko Zandstra

Finnish

 * Janne Hänninen
 * Juhani Järvinen
 * Pekka Koskela
 * Pertti Niittylä
 * Urpo Pikkupeura
 * Mika Poutala
 * Jukka Salmela
 * Toivo Salonen
 * Julius Skutnabb
 * Clas Thunberg
 * Jarmo Valtonen
 * Jouko Vesterlund

French

 * Alexis Contin
 * Jean-Noël Fagot
 * Hans van Helden (also competed for the Netherlands)
 * Thierry Lamberton
 * Emmanuel Michon
 * Tonny Monari (also competed for the Netherlands)

German

 * Frank Dittrich (also competed for DDR)
 * Jens Boden
 * Uwe-Jens Mey (also competed for DDR)
 * Samuel Schwarz
 * Olaf Zinke (also competed for DDR)

DDR (East German)

 * Andreas Ehrig
 * André Hoffmann
 * Uwe-Jens Mey

BRD (West German)

 * Erhard Keller

Japanese

 * Toru Aoyanagi
 * Manabu Horii
 * Junichi Inoue
 * Joji Kato
 * Yoshihiro Kitazawa
 * Akira Kuroiwa
 * Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
 * Yasunori Miyabe
 * Yukinori Miyabe
 * Hiroyasu Shimizu
 * Keiichi Suzuki

ROK (South Korean)

 * Joo Hyong-jun (also competes short-track)
 * Kim Cheol-min (also competes short-track)
 * Lee Kang-seok
 * Lee Kyou-hyuk
 * Mo Tae-bum

Italian

 * Enrico Fabris
 * Maurizio Marchetto
 * Mirko Giacomo Nenzi
 * Ippolito Sanfratello
 * Roberto Sighel

Kazakh

 * Vadim Sayutin (also competed for Russia)

Mexican

 * Eric Kraan

Norwegian

 * Nils Aaness
 * Roald Aas
 * Hjalmar Andersen
 * Petter Andersen
 * Terje Andersen
 * Ivar Ballangrud
 * Håvard Bøkko
 * Thomas Byberg
 * Armand Carlsen
 * Jørn Didriksen
 * Lasse Efskind
 * Kai Arne Engelstad
 * Ivar Eriksen
 * Eskil Ervik
 * Bernt Evensen
 * Rolf Falk-Larssen
 * Sverre Farstad
 * Dag Fornæss
 * Alv Gjestvang
 * Øystein Grødum
 * Roar Grønvold
 * Rudolf Gundersen
 * Per Willy Guttormsen
 * Villy Haugen
 * Sverre Ingolf Haugli
 * Finn Helgesen
 * Knut Johannesen
 * Arne Johansen
 * Geir Karlstad
 * Johann Olav Koss
 * Roald Larsen
 * Reidar Liaklev
 * Odd Lundberg
 * Fred Anton Maier
 * Charles Mathiesen
 * Oscar Mathisen
 * Per Ivar Moe
 * Alfred Næss
 * Peder Østlund
 * Tom Erik Oxholm
 * Frode Rønning
 * Lasse Sætre
 * Amund Sjøbrend
 * Ådne Søndrål
 * Michael Staksrud
 * Sten Stensen
 * Kay Arne Stenshjemmet
 * Rune Stordal
 * Kjell Storelid
 * Jan Egil Storholt
 * Harald Strøm
 * Kristian Strøm
 * Roger Strøm
 * Arnulf Sunde
 * Magne Thomassen
 * Erik Vea
 * Even Wetten

Polish

 * Zbigniew Bródka

Russian

 * Dmitry Dorofeyev
 * Aleksandr Golubev (also competed for Soviet Union)
 * Dmitry Lobkov
 * Dmitry Shepel
 * Ivan Skobrev
 * Aleksey Yesin
 * Denis Yuskov

Soviet

 * Ants Antson
 * Andrey Bobrov
 * Dmitry Bochkaryov
 * Oleg Bozhev
 * Sergey Fokichev
 * Oleg Goncharenko
 * Yevgeny Grishin
 * Nikolay Gulyayev
 * Vasily Ippolitov
 * Sergey Klevchenya
 * Sergey Khlebnikov
 * Viktor Kosichkin
 * Yevgeny Kulikov
 * Vladimir Lobanov
 * Viktor Lyoskin
 * Igor Malkov
 * Sergey Marchuk
 * Eduard Matusevich
 * Yuri Mikhaylov
 * Valery Muratov
 * Dmitry Ogloblin
 * Pavel Pegov
 * Viktor Shasherin
 * Boris Shilkov
 * Vladimir Shilykovsky
 * Boris Stenin
 * Nikolay Strunnikov

Swedish

 * Nils van der Poel
 * Per Bengtsson
 * Göran Claeson
 * Sigvard Ericsson
 * Tomas Gustafson
 * Johnny Höglin
 * Hans Markström
 * Jonny Nilsson
 * Johan Röjler
 * Örjan Sandler
 * Jonas Schön
 * Åke Seyffarth
 * Mats Wallberg

Swiss

 * Franz Krienbühl
 * Notger "Nök" Ledergerber
 * Roger Schneider

American

 * Chantal Bailey
 * Bonnie Blair
 * Rebekah Bradford
 * Beth Heiden
 * Anne Henning
 * Dianne Holum
 * Kit Klein
 * Maria Lamb
 * Leah Poulos-Mueller
 * Jennifer Rodriguez
 * Chris Witty
 * Sheila Young
 * Ellie Ochowicz
 * Catherine Raney
 * Heather Richardson-Bergsma
 * Nancy Swider
 * Christine Witty

Austrian

 * Emese Antal (born in Romania)
 * Emese Hunyady (also competed for Hungary)

Canadian

 * Susan Auch
 * Ivanie Blondin
 * Lela Brooks
 * Sylvia Burka
 * Sylvie Daigle
 * Eden Donatelli
 * Kristina Groves
 * Clara Hughes
 * Gilmore Junio
 * Cindy Klassen
 * Catriona Le May Doan
 * Christine Nesbitt
 * Shannon Rempel
 * Brittany Schussler

Czech

 * Martina Sáblíková

Danish

 * Cathrine Grage

Dutch

 * Margot Boer
 * Annie Borckink
 * Wieteke Cramer
 * Paulien van Deutekom
 * Carry Geijssen
 * Yvonne van Gennip
 * Annette Gerritsen
 * Renate Groenewold
 * Tonny de Jong
 * Stien Kaiser
 * Atje Keulen-Deelstra
 * Marrit Leenstra
 * Barbara de Loor
 * Jorien ter Mors
 * Laurine van Riessen
 * Ans Schut
 * Gretha Smit
 * Marianne Timmer
 * Diane Valkenburg
 * Lotte van Beek
 * Renske Vellinga
 * Marja Vis
 * Ria Visser
 * Elma de Vries
 * Linda de Vries
 * Ireen Wüst

Finnish

 * Kaija Mustonen

German

 * Daniela Anschütz-Thoms
 * Stephanie Beckert
 * Jacqueline Börner (also competed for DDR)
 * Anni Friesinger-Postma
 * Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (also competed for DDR)
 * Bente Kraus
 * Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (also competed for DDR)
 * Claudia Pechstein (also competed for DDR)
 * Christa Luding-Rothenburger (also competed for DDR)
 * Franziska Schenk (also competed for DDR)
 * Sabine Völker (also competed for DDR)
 * Jenny Wolf

DDR (East German)

 * Karin Enke
 * Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich
 * Helga Haase
 * Constanze Moser-Scandolo
 * Gabi Zange

BRD (West German)

 * Monika Pflug

Japanese

 * Seiko Hashimoto
 * Tomomi Okazaki

DPRK (North Korean)

 * Han Pil-Hwa

ROK (South Korean)

 * Lee Sang-hwa

Norwegian

 * Hege Bøkko
 * Maren Haugli
 * Edel Therese Høiseth
 * Bjørg Eva Jensen
 * Synnøve Lie
 * Laila Schou Nilsen

Russian

 * Svetlana Bazhanova
 * Svetlana Zhurova

Soviet

 * Inga Artamonova
 * Tatyana Averina
 * Vera Bryndzei
 * Maria Isakova
 * Natalya Petrusyova
 * Tamara Rylova
 * Lidia Skoblikova
 * Nina Statkevich
 * Valentina Stenina
 * Galina Stepanskaya
 * Lyudmila Titova
 * Rimma Zhukova

Swedish

 * Jasmin Krohn

Swiss

 * Sylvia Brunner

American

 * Apolo Anton Ohno
 * JR Celski
 * Dan Weinstein
 * Anthony Lobello Jr
 * Jordan Malone
 * Simon Cho
 * Rusty Smith
 * Alex Izykowski
 * Ryan Bedford
 * Travis Jayner
 * J. P. Kepka
 * Kyle Uyehara
 * Charles King
 * Keith King

Australian

 * Steven Bradbury

British

 * Wilf O'Reilly

Canadian

 * Eric Bedard
 * Gaétan Boucher
 * Marc Gagnon
 * Michael Gilday
 * Jonathan Guilmette
 * Charles Hamelin
 * François Hamelin
 * François-Louis Tremblay
 * Mathieu Turcotte
 * Guillaume Bastille
 * Olivier Jean
 * Gilmore Junio

Chinese

 * Li Jiajun

Dutch

 * Lieuwe de Boer

DPRK (North Korean)

 * Choe Un-song
 * Jong Kwang-bom

ROK (South Korean)

 * Ahn Hyun Soo
 * Ahn Viktor (also competed for Russia)
 * Chae Ji-hoon
 * Hwang Dae-heon
 * Joo Hyong-jun (also competes long-track)
 * Kim Byeong-jun
 * Kim Cheol-min (also competes long-track)
 * Kim Do-kyoum
 * Kim Dong-sung
 * Kim Hwan-ee
 * Kim Hyun-kon
 * Kim Ki-hoon
 * Kim Seoung-il
 * Kim Tae-hoon
 * Kim Yun-jae
 * Kwak Yoon-gy
 * Lee Han-bin
 * Lee Ho-eung
 * Lee Ho-Suk
 * Lee Joon-ho
 * Lee Jun-hwan
 * Lee June-seo
 * Lee Jung-Su
 * Lee Seung-hoon
 * Lim Hyo-jun
 * Min Ryoung
 * Mo Ji-soo
 * Noh Jin-kyu
 * Oh Se-jong
 * Park Ji-won
 * Park Se-yeong
 * Seo Ho-Jin
 * Seo Yi-ra
 * Sin Da-woon
 * Song Jae-kun
 * Song Kyung-taek
 * Song Suk-Woo
 * Sung Si-Bak
 * Um Cheon-ho

New Zealand

 * Mike McMillen
 * Andrew Nicholson
 * Chris Nicholson
 * Tony Smith
 * Blake Skjellerup

American

 * Katherine Reutter
 * Allison Baver
 * Kimberly Derrick
 * Carly Wilson
 * Lana Gehring
 * Alyson Dudek
 * Cathy Turner

Bulgarian

 * Evgenia Radanova

Canadian

 * Susan Auch
 * Sylvie Daigle
 * Eden Donatelli
 * Marie-Ève Drolet
 * Jessica Gregg
 * Alanna Kraus
 * Anouk Leblanc-Boucher
 * Valérie Maltais
 * Amanda Overland
 * Kalyna Roberge
 * Marianne St-Gelais
 * Tania Vicent

Chinese

 * Wang Meng
 * Yang Yang (A)
 * Yang Yang (S)

DPRK (North Korean)

 * Hwang Ok-sil
 * Kim Chun-hwa
 * Ri Hyang-mi

ROK (South Korean)

 * An Sang-mi
 * Byun Chun-sa
 * Cho Ha-ri
 * Choi Eun-kyung
 * Choi Min-kyung
 * Chun Lee-kyung
 * Jeon Da-hye
 * Jeon Ji-soo
 * Jin Sun-Yu
 * Joo Min-jin
 * Jung Eun-ju
 * Kim Alang
 * Kim Min-jee
 * Ko Gi-hyun
 * Park Seung-hi
 * Shim Suk-hee
 * Noh Ah-Reum