List of Olympic venues in speed skating

For the Winter Olympics there are 22 venues that have been or will be used for speed skating. The first venues were outdoors on natural ice with the last one being held at 1956. Calgary's 1988 venue was the first to be constructed for indoor use. The last venue held outdoors was at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Since the 1994 Games, all of the long track speed skating venues have been indoors.

Games Venue Other sports hosted at venue for those games Capacity Ref.
1924 ChamonixStade Olympique de ChamonixCross-country skiing, Curling, Figure skating, Ice hockey, Military patrol, Nordic combined (cross-country skiing)45,000. [1]
1928 St. MoritzSt. Moritz Olympic Ice RinkFigure skating, Ice hockey4000 [2][3]
1932 Lake PlacidOlympic StadiumIce hockey7475 [4]
1936 Garmisch-PartenkirchenRiesserseeBobsleigh, Ice hockey17,940 (Bobsleigh),
16,000 (Ice hockey, Speed skating)		 [5]
1948 St. MoritzOlympic StadiumFigure skating, Ice hockey (final)Not listed. [6]
1952 Oslo Bislett Stadion Bandy (demonstration), Figure skating 29,000 [7]
1956 Cortina d'AmpezzoLa pista di MisurinaNone8,550 [8]
1960 Squaw ValleySquaw Valley Olympic Skating RinkIce hockeyNot listed. [9]
1964 InnsbruckEisschnellaufbahnNoneNot listed. [10]
1968 GrenobleL'Anneau de VitesseNone2,500 [11]
1972 SapporoMakomanai Speed Skating RinkOpening ceremonies50,000 [12]
1976 InnsbruckEisschnellaufbahnNone7,000 [13]
1980 Lake PlacidJames B. Sheffield Speed Skating OvalNoneNot listed. [14]
1984 SarajevoZetra Ice RinkNoneNot listed [15]
1988 CalgaryOlympic OvalNone4,000 [16]
1992 AlbertvilleL'anneau de vitesseNone10,000 [17]
1994 LillehammerHamar Olympic HallNone10,600 [18]
1998 NaganoM-WaveNone10,000 [19]
2002 Salt Lake CityUtah Olympic OvalNone5,236 [20]
2006 TurinOval LingottoNone8,250 [21]
2010 Vancouver Richmond Olympic Oval None 8,000 [22]
2014 SochiAdler Arena Skating CenterNone8,000 [23]
2018 PyeongChangGangneung OvalNone8,000 [24][25]
2022 BeijingNational Speed Skating OvalNone12,000
2026 Milan-CortinaIce Rink PinéNone5,000
Bislett Stadion hosted the speed skating events for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.
Olympic Oval in Calgary hosted the speed skating events for the 1988 Winter Olympics.

References
  1. 1924 Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 645, 648-50. (in French)
  2. 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Part 1. p. 46. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
  3. 1928 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-02-16 at WebCite Part 2. pp. 1-7, 15. (in French) Accessed 10 October 2010.
  4. 1932 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 141, 147-50. Accessed 12 October 2010.
  5. 1936 Olympic Winter Games official report. Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine pp. 70, 71, 74, 132-40, 153, 408-419. Accessed 16 October 2010. (in German)
  6. 1948 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-04-10 at the Wayback Machine pp. 6, 23. Accessed 18 October 2010. (in French and German)
  7. 1952 Winter Olympic official report. Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine p. 28.
  8. The Official Report of the Organising Committee of the VIIth Winter Olympic Games 1956 at Cortina. (1956) CONI. pp. 180-88, 191. Accessed 24 October 2010. (in English and Italian)
  9. 1960 Winter Olympics official report. p. 121. Accessed 27 October 2010.
  10. 1964 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine p. 142. Accessed 30 October 2010. (in German)
  11. 1968 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 105-6. Accessed 1 November 2010. (in English and French)
  12. 1972 Winter Olympics official report. pp. 253-5. Accessed 6 November 2010. (in English and French)
  13. 1976 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 205-7. Accessed 10 November 2010. (in English, French, and German)
  14. 1980 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 43-7. Accessed 16 November 2010. (in English and French)
  15. 1984 Summer Olympics official report. Archived 2011-12-21 at WebCite pp. 73-86, 105-8. Accessed 22 November 2010. (in English, French, and Serbo-Croatian)
  16. 1988 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2011-01-14 at the Wayback Machine Part 1. pp. 144-51. Accessed 29 November 2010. (in English and French)
  17. 1992 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2008-02-26 at the Wayback Machine pp. 84-7. Accessed 5 December 2010. (in English and French)
  18. 1994 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 51-6. Accessed 8 December 2010.
  19. 1998 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 212-4. Accessed 12 December 2010.
  20. 2002 Winter Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 96-7. Accessed 21 December 2010.
  21. 2006 Winter Olympics official report. Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine Volume 3. pp. 66-7. Accessed 27 December 2010. (in English and Italian)
  22. "Venues–Richmond Olympic Oval". Vancouver Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  23. Sochi2014.com profile of the Olympic Oval. Accessed 31 December 2010.
  24. PyeongChang2018.orgm profile of the Olympic Venues. Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 31 December 2010.
  25. "Pyeongchang 2018 move venue for Opening and Closing Ceremonies". July 6, 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
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