Speed skating gold medalist Karin

Answer 1

Once you reach a high level of compatition in speed skating, you do whats called "Single Distance Championships". This is when a person only competes in his/her best distance, Some people do more than one distance, but many perfer to just focouson one.

Therefore there is no one winner for 1990, there would be winners for both male and female, and for every distance. There is the 500m, 1000m, 1500m and 3K races, there may be more but those are the basic and most common ones.

Answer 2

Karin Enke of East Germany who won gold in women's 500 meters at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid and 1000 meters and 1500 meters at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo.

Answer 3

Enke