The longest event for speed skating is the men's 10,000 meters race, which is equivalent to 10 kilometers.
BEcause many people participate in it... Many people make their lives by skating.
Eric Heiden won five speed skating medals, all gold, (500 meters, 1000 meters, 1500 meters, 5000 meters, and 10000 meters) and all at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
Winter Olympic sports held indoors are curling, speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, and ice hockey.
There are many compnents to skating... to find them all... you'll just have to try it yourself :)
37. 32 men and 5 women have competed in biathlon, cross country skiing, long track speed skating, and short track speed skating for Mongolia. They have won no medals.
Many people from many different countries.
Canada
There is one for every winter Olympics.
2 ... Cathy Turner won 2 gold medals (500 meters in 1992 and 1994) and Apolo Anton Ohno won 2 gold medals (1500 meters in 2002 and 500 meters in 2006).
Through the 2010 Games in Vancouver, none. Anastasia's first Olympics will be the 2010 Games where she will compete in the ladies 500 meters speed skating event.
That depends how long you travel at that speed. The general relation is: distance = speed x time On the other hand, to convert from kilometers to meters, just multiply by 1000.