1914 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
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Oscar Mathisen World champion 1914
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| Venue | Frogner Stadion, Kristiania, Norway | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 14–15 February 1914 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 21from 5 nations | ||||||||||||
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Oscar Mathisen |
 NOR
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Vasili Ippolitov |
 RUS
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Väinö Wickström |
 FIN
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The 1914 World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place at 14 and 15 February 1914 at the ice rink Frogner Stadion in Kristiania, Norway.
Oscar Mathisen was defending champion and succeeded in prolonging his title. Oscar Mathisen became World champion for the fifth time. He is together with Clas Thunberg and Sven Kramer holder of the record of fifth World Allround titles.
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com
Four distances have to be skated:
The ranking was made by award ranking points. The points were awarded to the skaters who had skated all the distances. The final ranking was then decided by ordering the skaters by lowest point totals.
One could win the World Championships also by winning at least three of the four distances, so the ranking could be affected by this.
Silver and bronze medals were awarded.
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