Opposition is growing to a proposal to move speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games to Turin after plans to build an expensive roof over the outdoor rink at Baselga di Piné were rejected.

The Netherlands dominated the International Skating Union (ISU) European Speed Skating Championships in Hamar by winning the sprint and all-round titles.

Double Olympic champion Lee Seung-hoon of South Korea is aiming to compete at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games despite turning 35 in just over two months.

The 2024 European Speed Skating Championships and European Short Track Speed Skating Championships have been postponed as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Canada’s Olympic silver medallist Laurent Dubreuil hailed "a perfect weekend" as he won three gold medals at the International Skating Union’s Four Continents Speed Skating Championships in Quebec City.

An outdoor ice rink that is set to be used as the speed skating venue during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games is to be given a roof.

Double Olympic medallist Susan Auch will seek "legal remedies" after being dismissed as chief executive of Speed Skating Canada (SSC), a role she has held since February 2017.

Four South Korean speed skaters banned from the sport for their roles in a drink-driving scandal, including two Olympic medallists, will not appeal the sanctions.

Three-time Olympic speed skating medallist Kim Min-seok has been banned from competition for 18 months by the Korea Skating Union (KSU) for drink-driving - a sanction which will expire well before Milan Cortina 2026. 

Russia’s three-time world speed skating champion Denis Yuskov has announced his retirement at the age of 32 because of injury.

The Royal Dutch Skating Association (KNSB) has decided not to extend the contract of its national speed skating coach Jan Coopmans following what is being considered a poor showing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Nao Kodaira is to retire later this year, bringing to an end a career which included Japan's first-ever Winter Olympic speed skating gold medal won by a woman.

Japanese speed skater Nana Takagi, a three-time Olympian and twice a gold medallist, has announced her retirement from the sport.

Dutch skater Kjeld Nuis surpassed his own world speed record by reaching 103 kilometres per hour on an ice rink in Norway.

The Netherlands' triple Beijing 2022 Olympic gold medallist Irene Schouten earned the women’s 3,000 metres title before a delirious home crowd as the Speed Skating World Cup Final concluded in Heerenveen.