speed skating or speed skating is a sport where you have to overcome the distances on the ice stadium. Victory depends on the development of speed skater and he spent time on all the way. An interesting sport to amateur skating turn the contest.The first official world champion Dutchman is Eden, and European champion, Swede Eriksson. Both athletes have won these titles in 1893.In 1889, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, hosted the first World Championship for skaters. TheInternational Skating Union announced the professional competitions andheld in 1893 in Amsterdam, the first official World Championship formen. Women's world championships are held from 1936 onwardsSoviet skaters first came on the 7-th start of the Winter Olympics in 1956 and won 7 medals in prize money.The first Soviet world champion Maria isakova, she won three consecutive World Championships, has won three Olympic medals. In 1957, at the 15th world women's championship held in Finland, the Soviet athletes have won 13 of 15 possible prizes.The first Soviet Olympic champion in speed skating Marathon was Igor Malkov in Sarajevo (1984). In 1987, the popular skorokhod Nikolay Gulyayev won the highest awards — speed skating champion of Europe and the world.
