2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships

2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands
Dates	11–14 February

The 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships are scheduled to take place between 11 and 14 February 2021, at Thialf in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Zeitplan

All times are local (UTC+1).

Date	Zeit	Events
11 February	14:50	3000 m ladies
	16:01	5000 m men
12 February	15:10	Team pursuit ladies
	15:33	Team pursuit men
	16:13	500 m men
	16:56	500 m ladies
13 February	15:13	1000 m ladies
	16:02	1000 m men
	16:55	Mass start final ladies
	17:10	Mass start final men
14 February	12:35	1500 m ladies
	13:32	1500 m men
	14:28	5000 m ladies
	15:35	10000 m men

Russia doping ban

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with laboratory data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA plans to allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2021-2022 World Championships and 2022 Summer Olympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. The title of the neutral banner has yet to be determined; WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" (OAR) as it did in 2018, emphasizing that neutral athletes cannot be portrayed as representing a specific country. Russia later filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the WADA decision. After reviewing the case on appeal, CAS ruled on 17 December 2020 to reduce the penalty that WADA had placed on Russia. Instead of banning Russia from sporting events, the ruling allowed Russia to participate at the Olympics and other international events, but for a period of two years, the team cannot use the Russian name, flag, or anthem and must present themselves as "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team". The ruling does allow for team uniforms to display "Russia" on the uniform as well as the use of the Russian flag colors within the uniform's design, although the name should be up to equal predominance as the "Neutral Athlete/Team" designation.

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Niederlande)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Niederlande*	3	1	1	5
2	Schweden	1	0	0	1
3	Kanada	0	2	0	2
4	Tschechische Republik	0	1	0	1
5	Russian Skating Union	0	0	3	3
Totals (5 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m
1000 m
1500 m
5000 m	Nils van der Poel Schweden	6:08.395 NR	Patrick Roest Niederlande	6:10.050	Sergey Trofimov Russian Skating Union	6:13.020
10000 m
Team pursuit	Niederlande Beau Snellink Marcel Bosker Patrick Roest	3:41.429	Kanada Ted-Jan Bloemen Jordan Belchos Connor Howe	3:41.711	Russian Skating Union Sergey Trofimov Ruslan Zakharov Danila Semerikov	3:42.662
Mass start

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m
1000 m
1500 m
3000 m	Antoinette de Jong Niederlande	3:58.470	Martina Sáblíková Tschechische Republik	3:58.579	Irene Schouten Niederlande	3:59.757
5000 m
Team pursuit	Niederlande Ireen Wüst Antoinette de Jong Irene Schouten	2:55.795	Kanada Valérie Maltais Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann	2:55.973	Russian Skating Union Evgeniia Lalenkova Elizaveta Golubeva Natalia Voronina	2:59.358
Mass start