Speed Skating

Speed skating is an ice sport in which the players wearing skates race on oval ice tracks. Speed skaters can attain a maximum speed of around 60km/h. The sport is also a part of winter Olympics since 1924. The idea of the sport was originated in Scandinavia and Netherlands where the natives attached bones to their shoes and used it to travel on frozen rivers, lakes and canals. In 1642, the first official skating club was born and in 1763, the first official speed skating race took place in England. The first World Speed Skating Championship was held in 1893 and takes place every year now.

To reach the finish line by skating in the fastest time possible.

General

Speed Skating started as a quick type of transportation crosswise over frozen lakes and streams. It is one of the most ancient kinds of sport on the planet and amid the nineteenth century it advanced in both Europe and North America into a cutting edge, aggressive game turning into the quickest non-mechanical game. Skaters can achieve speeds more than 50 km for every hour (31 miles for each hour) fueled just by their body and particularly their legs.

From soft caps to skin-tight streamlined racing suits and the presentation of the slap skate, Speed Skating has enormously developed through the span of its 120 years of presence. Aside from the first four distance Championships for men, separate World Championships were presented for women in 1936, for Sprinters in 1972 and junior division in 1974. These Championships reliably clung to the rule of a World Championships with four distance.

Speed Skating made its introduction on the Olympic program at the 1924 Winter Games. For quite a while, the Olympic Winter Games were the main event for Speed Skaters to pick up titles in the individual distances. Just since 1996 has there been the ISU World Single Distances Championships consistently, under the ISU banner. In 2005 the ISU presented the Team Pursuit and after ten years the Team Sprint. In 2011 the Mass Start was brought into the official competition and made its Olympic presentation at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games.

The Dutch were seemingly the most punctual pioneers of skating. They started utilising waterways to keep up the correspondence by skating from town to town as far back as the thirteenth century. Skating, in the end, spread over the channel to England, and soon the first clubs and artificial rinks started to shape. Energetic skaters incorporated a few rulers of England, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon III and German essayist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

The first known skating rivalry is thought to have been held in the Netherlands in 1676. Be that as it may, the first official Speed Skating occasions were not held until 1863 in Oslo, Norway. In 1889, the Netherlands facilitated the first World Championships, uniting Dutch, Russian, American and English groups.

Ice Dance

It's a variant of speed skating which consists of a couple (traditionally a man and a woman) who dance on the ice while holding each other. Jumps and throws aren't allowed in this type of speed skating.

Short Track

it's a more safe version of speed skating which is contested on a short track of 111 meters having more safety precautions like guards, etc. 

Long Track

It's a variant of speed skating which consists of competitions conducted on a 400 meters rink while using a significantly less amount of safety precautions as compared to short track speed racing. It's held for both men and women, but women are allowed to cover less distance.