Other sportsSpeed skating world record
500 m, women
Record
36.09 s
- Holder
- Femke Kok
- Date
- Place
- Salt Lake City
- Standing since
- 2025
What to remember
On the Salt Lake City oval on 16 November 2025, Femke Kok covered 500 m in 36.09 s, an average of 49.88 km/h. The Dutch skater set the time at a round of the 2025-26 World Cup, and the International Skating Union (ISU) ratified it as the world record.
Kok is a specialist of the sprint distances. Born in Nij Beets, she collected several world junior titles before winning two senior world titles in the team sprint in the early 2020s.
At the 2026 Winter Olympics she won gold in the 500 m, setting an Olympic record, and silver in the 1,000 m.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in speed skating” (revision used 1377276343). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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