World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships
M-Wave (Nagano)
Venue	M-Wave (Nagano)
Dates	3–5 March 2000
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The 2000 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships were held between 3 and 5 March 2000 in the M-Wave, Nagano, Japan.

Men's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details[1]	Hiroyasu Shimizu  Japan	1:10.49 35.30 35.19	Mike Ireland  Canada	1:11.14 35.80 35.34	Jeremy Wotherspoon  Canada	1:11.38 35.75 35.62
1000 m details[2]	Ådne Søndrål  Norway	1:09.96	Jan Bos  Netherlands	1:09.98	Mike Ireland  Canada	1:10.58
1500 m details[3]	Ids Postma  Netherlands	1:47.98	Ådne Søndrål  Norway	1:48.61	Jan Bos  Netherlands	1:48.66
5000 m details[4]	Gianni Romme  Netherlands	6:23.31	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	6:25.40	Keiji Shirahata  Japan	6:31.16
10000 m details[5]	Gianni Romme  Netherlands	13:12.27	Bob de Jong  Netherlands	13:21.74	Frank Dittrich  Germany	13:27.93

Women's events

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 m details[6]	Monique Garbrecht  Germany	1:17.48 38.78 38.70	Svetlana Zhurova  Russia	1:17.64 38.79 38.85	Catriona Le May Doan  Canada	1:17.78 38.96 38.82
1000 m details[7]	Monique Garbrecht  Germany	1:16.59	Marianne Timmer  Netherlands	1:16.71	Chris Witty  United States	1:17.28
1500 m details[8]	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	1:58.43	Anni Friesinger  Germany	1:58.62	Emese Hunyady  Austria	1:58.97
3000 m details[9]	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	4:05.68	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	4:05.75	Maki Tabata  Japan	4:09.18
5000 m details[10]	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann  Germany	6:58.71	Claudia Pechstein  Germany	7:00.68	Tonny de Jong  Netherlands	7:06.30

Medal table

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	3	1	9
2	Netherlands (NED)	3	4	2	9
3	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
4	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
5	Canada (CAN)	0	1	3	4
6	Russia (RUS)	0	1	0	1
7	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	10	30