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Complete 1998 medal count

Records at the Nagano Games

Associated Press
Saturday, February 21, 1998; 10:18 p.m. EST

WORLD RECORDS

SPEEDSKATING

Men's 5,000: Gianni Romme, Netherlands, 6:22.20 (old record: Romme, 6:30.63, Dec. 7, 1997), Feb. 8, 1998.

Men's 1,500: Adne Sondral, Norway, 1:47.87 (old record: Rintje Ritsma, Netherlands, 1:48.88, Dec. 20, 1997), Feb. 12, 1998.

Women's 1,500: Marianne Timmer, Netherlands, 1:57.58 (old record: Catriona LeMay Doan, Canada, 1:57.87, Nov. 29, 1997), Feb. 16, 1998.

Men's 10,000: Gianni Romme, Netherlands, 13:15.33 (old record: Johann Koss Olav, Norway, 13:30.55, Feb. 20, 1994), Feb. 17, 1998.

SHORT-TRACK SPEEDSKATING

Women's 5,000: Claudia Pechstein, Germany, 6:59.61 (old record: Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, Germany, 7:03.26, March 26, 1994), Feb. 20, 1998.

Women's 3,000 Relay: South Korea (Chun Lee-kyung, Won Hye-kyung, An Sang-mi, Kim Yun-mi), 4:16.260 (old record: South Korea--An Sang-mi, Kim Sun-mi Kim, Won Hye-kyung, Chun Lee-kyung, 4:17.630, Dec. 8, 1996), Feb. 17, 1998.

Women's 1,000: Yang Yang, China, 1:31.991 (old record: Chun Lee-kyung, South Korea, 1:32.340, Oct. 18, 1996), Feb. 21, 1998.

OLYMPIC RECORDS

SPEEDSKATING

Men's 500: Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japan, 35.76 (old record: Alexander Golubev, Russia, 36.33, Feb. 14, 1994), Feb. 9, 1998.

Men's 500: Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japan, 35.59 (old record: Shimizu, 35.76, Feb. 9, 1998), Feb. 10, 1998.

Women's 3,000: Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, Germany, 4:07.29 (old record: Yvonne Van Gennip, Netherlands, Feb. 23, 1988), Feb. 11, 1998.

Women's 500: Catriona LeMay Doan, Canada, 38.39 (old record: Bonnie Blair, United States, 39.10, Feb. 22, 1988), Feb. 13, 1998.

Women's 500: Catriona LeMay Doan, Canada, 38.21 (old record: LeMay Doan, 38.39, Feb. 13, 1998), Feb. 14, 1998.

Men's 1,000: Ids Postma, Netherlands, 1:10.64 (old record: Daniel Jansen, United States, 1:12.43, Feb. 18, 1994), Feb. 15, 1998.

Women's 1,000: Marianne Timmer, Netherlands, 1:16.51 (old record: Christa Rothenburger, Germany, 1:17.65, Feb. 26, 1988), Feb. 19, 1998.

SHORT-TRACK SPEEDSKATING

Men's 1,000: Satoru Terao, Japan, 1:29.398 (old record: Lee Jun-ho, South Korea, 1:29.58, Feb. 22, 1994), Feb. 17, 1998.

Women's 500: Isabelle Charest, Canada, 44.991 (old record: Cathy Turner, United States, 45.98, Feb. 24, 1994), Feb. 19, 1998.

Men's 500: Satoru Terao, Japan, 42.948 (old record: Chae Ji-hoon, South Korea, 43.45, Feb. 26, 1994), Feb. 19, 1998.

Men's 5,000 relay: Canada (Marc Gagnon, Francois Drolet, Derrick Campbell, Eric Bedard), 7:05.766 (old record: Italy--Mirko Vuillermin, Hugo Herrnhof, Orazio Fagone, Maurizio Carnino, 7:11.74, Feb. 26, 1994), Feb. 19, 1998.

Men's 500: Takafumi Nishitani, Japan, 42.756 (old record: Satoru Terao, Japan, 42.948, Feb. 19, 1998), Feb. 21, 1998.

Men's 5,000 relay: Japan (Satoru Terao, Naoya Tamura, Yugo Shinohara, Takehiro Kodera), 7:01.660 (old record: Canada (Marc Gagnon, Francois Drolet, Derrick Campbell, Eric Bedard), 7:05.766, Feb. 19, 1998.

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