When was the first men's speed skating championship in the world

The world's first men's speed skating championships were held in 1893.

Speed skating is a sport in which athletes compete fiercely for skating speed on a defined ice rink and over a defined distance. Speed skating appeared in the Netherlands as early as the 13th century. Initially wooden ice skates were used, and by the 10th century, bone ice skates appeared. It was also in the Netherlands that ice skating began to become a speed competition, dating back to 1676.

From 1850, when steel ice skates were introduced, speed skating took wing and grew by leaps and bounds. By the early 1800s, the Dutch had begun to transfer the concept of speed skating to European countries.

In 1863, the first official speed skating competition took place in Oslo, and in 1885, the first major international event, the inaugural European Championships, was held in Hamburg, Germany.

Official world championships were established in 1892 with the founding of the International Skating Federation. Then, in 1893, the first men's speed skating championships were held in Amsterdam, Holland, and in 1892, the International Skating Union (ISU) was established in Scheveningen, Holland, the earliest international federation in winter sports.

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Speed skating has been an official Olympic sport since the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix in 1924, but at that time it was only permitted for men to participate. Women's speed skating was included as an experimental sport at the 1932 Winter Olympics and did not become an official competition until the 1960 Winter Olympics.

There are 10 individual events in speed skating at the Olympics, with the team pursuit introduced for the first time at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, with one gold medal for each gender.In 2015, the speed skating team start, one of the four new events added to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, was included in the official Winter Olympics competition program for the first time.

All 14 events are: men's 500 meters (included in the Olympics in 1924), 1,000 meters (included in 1976), 1,500 meters, 5,000 meters, 10,000 meters (all included in 1924), the team pursuit (included in 2006), the collective departure (included in 2015), and women's 500 meters, 1,000 meters, 1,500 meters, 3000m (all included in 1960), 5000m (included in 1988), team pursuit (included in 2006), collective start (included in 2015).

In 1963, the 57th World Men's Speed Skating Championships were held in Nagano, Japan. on February 24, China's Luo Zhihuan won the gold medal in the men's 1500m race with a time of 2 minutes 09 seconds 2 seconds and set the latest 1500m record of the World Championships. Luo Zhihuan became China's first world speed skating champion.

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