The 1996 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 14–16 February 1997 in the Ludwig-Schwabl-Stadion stadium in Inzell, Germany. This was the first World Championships where men and women competed at the same time and venue.
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| Venue | Ludwig-Schwabl-Stadion, Inzell | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 2–4 February | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 41 (M), 28 (W) from 24 nations | ||||||||||||
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Title defenders were the 1995 world champions Gunda Niemann from Germany and Rintje Ritsma from the Netherlands. Both prolongated their titles.
Allround results
editMen
edit| Place | Athlete | Country | Points | 500 m | 5000 m | 1500 m | 10000 m |
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Rintje Ritsma |  Netherlands |
160.299 | 37.73 (3) | 6:52.34 (2) | 1:54.66 (3) | 14:22.30 (1) |
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Ids Postma | Netherlands |
160.459 | 37.59 (2) | 6:54.05 (3) | 1:54.32 (2) | 14:27.17 (2) |
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Keiji Shirahata |  Japan |
161.714 | 37.80 (4) | 6:55.83 (5) | 1:55.25 (6) | 14:38.31 (5) |
| 4 | Hiroyuki Noake | Japan |
162.126 | 37.10 (1) | 7:06.99 (14) | 1:53.92 (1) | 14:47.09 (7) |
| 5 | K. C. Boutiette |  United States |
162.258 | 37.84 (6) | 6:58.41 (7) | 1:55.19 (5) | 14:43.62 (6) |
| 6 | Martin Hersman | Netherlands |
162.891 | 38.06 (9) | 6:55.50 (4) | 1:55.28 (7) | 14:57.10 (10) |
| 7 | Toru Aoyanagi | Japan |
163.338 | 38.23 (12) | 7:00.13 (9) | 1:55.92 (9) | 14:49.10 (8) |
| 8 | Neal Marshall |  Canada |
163.358 | 37.84 (6) | 7:02.34 (11) | 1:55.03 (4) | 14:58.82 (11) |
| 9 | Bart Veldkamp |  Belgium |
163.855 | 39.36 (24) | 6:51.20 (1) | 1:59.01 (18) | 14:34.11 (4) |
| 10 | Frank Dittrich |  Germany |
164.070 | 39.45 (25) | 6:57.31 (6) | 1:58.14 (12) | 14:30.18 (3) |
| 11 | Dave Tamburrino | United States |
164.339 | 38.63 (17) | 6:59.77 (8) | 1:57.21 (11) | 14:53.25 (9) |
| 12 | Andrey Anufriyenko |  Russia |
164.661 | 38.09 (11) | 7:05.54 (13) | 1:55.85 (8) | 15:08.03 (12) |
| NQ13 | Roberto Sighel |  Italy |
119.918 | 38.08 (10) | 7:08.38 (15) | 1:57.00 (10) | |
| NQ14 | Davide Carta | Italy |
120.799 | 37.80 (4) | 7:15.46 (27) | 1:58.36 (14) | |
| NQ15 | Vadim Sayutin | Russia |
121.339 | 38.76 (19) | 7:11.23 (18) | 1:58.37 (15) | |
| NQ16 | Christian Breuer | Germany |
121.633 | 37.89 (8) | 7:17.70 (29) | 1:59.92 (21) | |
| NQ17 | Kevin Marshall | Canada |
121.692 | 38.50 (15) | 7:11.22 (17) | 2:00.21 (22) | |
| NQ18 | Lasse Sætre |  Norway |
122.349 | 39.74 (34) | 7:03.19 (12) | 2:00.87 (26) | |
| NQ18 | Cédric Kuentz |  France |
122.349 | 39.60 (30) | 7:13.03 (23) | 1:58.34 (13) | |
| NQ20 | Paweł Zygmunt |  Poland |
122.482 | 39.35 (23) | 7:15.79 (28) | 1:58.66 (17) | |
| NQ21 | Cheon Ju-Hyeon |  South Korea |
122.977 | 38.44 (14) | 7:30.44 (36) | 1:58.48 (16) | |
| NQ22 | Anatoli Krasheninin | Russia |
122.979 | 39.64 (31) | 7:12.06 (22) | 2:00.40 (24) | |
| NQ23 | Petter Andersen | Norway |
122.988 | 38.43 (13) | 7:26.18 (34) | 1:59.82 (20) | |
| NQ24 | Sergey Kaznacheyev |  Kazakhstan |
123.378 | 39.52 (27) | 7:15.08 (26) | 2:01.05 (28) | |
| NQ25 | Vitali Novichenko |  Belarus |
123.435 | 39.47 (26) | 7:14.15 (25) | 2:01.65 (33) | |
| NQ26 | Arlen Spicer | United States |
123.709 | 39.33 (22) | 7:22.49 (32) | 2:00.39 (23) | |
| NQ27 | Andrew Nicholson |  New Zealand |
123.740 | 39.52 (27) | 7:19.67 (30) | 2:00.76 (25) | |
| NQ28 | Christian Eminger |  Austria |
123.862 | 41.30 (40) | 7:01.82 (10) | 2:01.14 (31) | |
| NQ29 | Jonas Schön |  Sweden |
123.867 | 39.70 (32) | 7:23.94 *(33) | 1:59.32 (19) | |
| NQ30 | Kim Sang-Cheol | South Korea |
124.049 | 38.53 (16) | 7:31.93 (38) | 2:00.98 (27) | |
| NQ31 | Remi Hereide | Norway |
124.370 | 40.72 (38) | 7:11.47 (20) | 2:01.51 (32) | |
| NQ32 | Adrian Stroescu |  Romania |
124.581 | 39.57 (29) | 7:26.48 (35) | 2:01.09 (30) | |
| NQ33 | Vesa Rosendahl |  Finland |
124.588 | 39.70 (32) | 7:21.38 (31) | 2:02.25 (34) | |
| NQ34 | Zsolt Baló |  Hungary |
125.195 | 39.03 (21) | 7:38.12 (40) | 2:01.06 (29) | |
| NQ35 | Fausto Marreiros |  Portugal |
125.337 | 41.11 (39) | 7:11.44 (19) | 2:03.25 (37) | |
| NQ36 | Sergij Priz |  Ukraine |
126.276 | 39.86 (35) | 7:33.86 (39) | 2:03.09 (36) | |
| NQ37 | Martin Feigenwinter |  Switzerland |
126.566 | 41.93 (41) | 7:08.70 (16) | 2:05.30 (39) | |
| NQ38 | Sergey Surgutanov | Kazakhstan |
126.849 | 40.19 (36) | 7:38.39 (41) | 2:02.46 (35) | |
| NQ39 | Bernhard Laimgruber | Austria |
126.970 | 40.59 (37) | 7:30.87 (37) | 2:03.88 (38) | |
| NQ40 | Mark Knoll | Canada |
133.928 | 39.01 (20) | 7:13.95 (24) | 2:34.57*(40) | |
| NQ41 | Thomas Kumm | Germany |
134.043 | 38.62 (17) | 7:11.57 (21) | 2:36.80*(41) |
NQ = Not qualified for the 10000 m (only the best 12 are qualified)
NS=did not start
* = Includes a fall
Women
edit| Place | Athlete | Country | Points | 500 m | 1500 m | 3000 m | 5000 m |
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Gunda Niemann-Kleemann | Germany |
173.272 | 41.63 (6) | 2:06.13 (1) | 4:22.59 (1) | 7:38.34 (2) |
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Claudia Pechstein | Germany |
175.465 | 41.91 (8) | 2:09.28 (7) | 4:27.96 (2) | 7:38.02 (1) |
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Mie Uehara | Japan |
175.677 | 41.59 (5) | 2:07.62 (3) | 4:28.21 (3) | 7:48.46 (3) |
| 4 | Annamarie Thomas | Netherlands |
176.519 | 41.32 (2) | 2:08.43 (4) | 4:32.04 (7) | 7:50.49 (5) |
| 5 | Tonny de Jong | Netherlands |
177.511 | 42.06 (11) | 2:09.96 (10) | 4:31.04 (6) | 7:49.58 (4) |
| 6 | Svetlana Bazhanova | Russia |
177.777 | 42.35 (13) | 2:07.02 (2) | 4:30.08 (5) | 8:00.74 (7) |
| 7 | Maki Tabata | Japan |
178.698 | 41.96 (10) | 2:09.19 (6) | 4:32.13 (8) | 8:03.20 (8) |
| 8 | Chiharu Nozaki | Japan |
178.995 | 41.51 (4) | 2:09.76 (9) | 4:34.88 (12) | 8:04.19 (9) |
| 9 | Ingrid Liepa | Canada |
180.404 | 41.92 (9) | 2:08.83 (5) | 4:39.08 (14) | 8:10.28 (11) |
| 10 | Heike Warnicke-Schalling | Germany |
180.502 | 43.92 (23) | 2:13.02 (22) | 4:29.87 (4) | 7:52.64 (6) |
| 11 | Becky Sundstrom | United States |
180.746 | 41.31 (1) | 2:10.79 (11) | 4:41.09 (17) | 8:09.92 (10) |
| 12 | Moira D'Andrea | United States |
181.669 | 41.50 (3) | 2:09.44 (8) | 4:40.80 (16) | 8:22.23 (12) |
| NQ13 | Svetlana Vysokova | Russia |
133.174 | 43.93 (24) | 2:10.81 (12) | 4:33.85 (10) | |
| NQ14 | Mihaela Dascălu | Romania |
133.244 | 42.72 (15) | 2:13.60 (23) | 4:35.95 (13) | |
| NQ15 | Tama Sundstrom | United States |
133.464 | 42.53 (14) | 2:11.81 (14) | 4:41.99 (19) | |
| NQ16 | Emese Antal | Austria |
133.605 | 43.05 (17) | 2:11.73 (13) | 4:39.87 (15) | |
| NQ17 | Chiara Simionato | Italy |
133.838 | 42.31 (12) | 2:12.79 (18) | 4:43.59 (22) | |
| NQ18 | Elena Belci-Dal Farra | Italy |
133.949 | 43.97 (25) | 2:13.85 (24) | 4:32.18 (9) | |
| NQ19 | Cerasela Hordobețiu | Romania |
134.133 | 42.72 (15) | 2:12.79 (18) | 4:42.90 (20) | |
| NQ20 | Ewa Wasilewska-Borkowska | Poland |
134.639 | 43.06 (18) | 2:12.01 (21) | 4:45.46 (24) | |
| NQ21 | Christina Schön | Sweden |
134.691 | 43.24 (19) | 2:12.54 (17) | 4:43.63 (23) | |
| NQ22 | Svetlana Konstantinova | Ukraine |
134.861 | 43.70 (22) | 2:12.53 (16) | 4:41.91 (18) | |
| NQ23 | Anette Tønsberg | Norway |
135.867 | 43.60 (21) | 2:15.23 (25) | 4:43.15 (21) | |
| NQ24 | Olga Klyga | Belarus |
137.863 | 43.39 (20) | 2:15.93 (26) | 4:54.98 (26) | |
| NQ25 | Dana Ionescu | Romania |
139.149 | 44.40 (26) | 2:17.29 (27) | 4:53.92 (25) | |
| NQ26 | Ilonda Lūse |  Latvia |
141.862 | 45.19 (27) | 2:21.59 (28) | 4:56.86 (27) | |
| NQ27 | Carla Zijlstra | Netherlands |
154.294 | 1:04.48*(28) | 2:12.44 (15) | 4:34.01 (11) | |
| NS3 | Emese Hunyady | Austria |
86.040 | 41.76 (7) | 2:12.84 (20) | NS |
NQ = Not qualified for the 5000 m (only the best 12 are qualified)
NS= Did not start
* = Includes a fall