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Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres
Women's 1000 m long track speed skating at Sochi 2014, held 13 February at Adler Arena. Zhang Hong (CHN) won gold in 1:14.02, China's first speed skating gold, ahead of Ireen Wüst and Margot Boer.
Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres
Women's 500 m speed skating, Sochi 2014: Lee Sang-Hwa (KOR) retained her title in 74.70 (37.42 + 37.28 OR) ahead of Olga Fatkulina (RUS) and Margot Boer (NED), becoming the third woman to defend the Olympic 500 m crown.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's mass start
Men's mass start, 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Gangneung Oval, 24 February 2018. Inaugural Olympic edition, 24 skaters, 16 laps, points format; Lee Seung-Hoon (KOR) won gold, Bart Swings silver, Koen Verweij bronze.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres
Women's 1000 m long track speed skating, PyeongChang 2018 (14 February 2018, Gangneung Oval). Jorien ter Mors (NED) won in Olympic record 1:13.56; Nao Kodaira and Miho Takagi (JPN) took silver and bronze.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
Women's 1500 m long track speed skating, PyeongChang 2018: Ireen Wüst (NED) won gold in 1:54.35 at Gangneung Oval on 12 February 2018, ahead of Miho Takagi and Marrit Leenstra, becoming the most successful Dutch Olympian.
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres
Women's 500 m speed skating, PyeongChang 2018, 18 February, Gangneung Oval: Nao Kodaira won gold in Olympic record 36.94, beating Lee Sang-Hwa (37.33) and Erbanová (37.34).
Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's mass start
Women's mass start speed skating, 2018 PyeongChang Olympics debut, 24 February 2018, Gangneung Oval. Nana Takagi (JPN) won gold, Kim Bo-Reum (KOR) silver, Irene Schouten (NED) bronze; 24 skaters, 16 laps, sprint points format.
Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres
Men's 1500 m speed skating, Beijing 2022 (8 February): Kjeld Nuis (NED) won gold in Olympic record 1:43.21, Thomas Krol silver, Kim Min-Seok bronze; Nuis's back-to-back title was the first since Koss 1992-94.
Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
Men's 500 m long track speed skating, Beijing 2022, 12 February 2022; Gao Tingyu (高亭宇) won in 34.32 OR, ahead of Cha Min Kyu and Wataru Morishige; first Olympic speed skating gold for a Chinese man.
Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's team pursuit
Men's team pursuit, long-track speed skating, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: Norway won gold in 3:38.08 ahead of ROC and the United States; ROC set the 3:36.62 Olympic record in the semifinal.
Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres
Women's 1000 m long track speed skating, Beijing 2022, 17 February. Miho Takagi (JPN) won gold in Olympic record 1:13.19; Jutta Leerdam (NED) silver, Brittany Bowe (USA) bronze; 30 skaters, 17 countries.
Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
Women's 1500 m long track speed skating, Beijing 2022, 7 February 2022. Ireen Wüst (NED) won in 1:53.28 OR, first individual golds at five Olympics; Miho Takagi (JPN) silver, Antoinette de Jong (NED) bronze.
Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres
The women's 500 meters at the 2022 Winter Olympics was won by America's Erin Jackson in 37.04 seconds in Beijing, making her the first Black woman to win Olympic speed skating gold.
Speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics (Milano Cortina): 14 long track events, 7 per sex, held 7-21 February 2026 at the first temporary indoor Olympic speed skating rink at Fiera Milano Rho, won headlinewise by Jordan Stolz.
Speed skiing
Speed skiing: the fastest non-motorized sport, straight-line descents on FIS-homologated pistes. World record 255.5 km/h (Simon Billy, 2023); women's record 248.270 km/h (Valentina Greggio, 2026); exhibition sport at Albertville 1992.
Speed standardization at 78 rpm
Speed standardization at 78 rpm is the convergence of early record speeds on 78 rpm, set at 77.92 rpm on 50 Hz and 78.26 rpm on 60 Hz supplies.
Speed table
A speed table is a flat-topped raised area across a roadway, a traffic calming device that reduces speeds by 4 to 11 mph and can be striped as a raised crosswalk.
Speed Up (motorcycle manufacturer)
Speed Up is an Italian racing motorcycle constructor founded in 2010 by former grand prix rider Luca Boscoscuro to build Moto2 chassis, rebranded Boscoscuro in 2021.
Speed wobble
Speed wobble, also known as tank slapper or death wobble, is a self-excited high-frequency oscillation of a bicycle or motorcycle's front steering assembly that can grow violent.
Speedball (drug)
Speedball: simultaneous stimulant-opioid use, classically heroin plus cocaine injected together; variants include goofball (heroin-methamphetamine) and super speedball (cocaine with fentanyl); higher overdose risk than either drug alone.
Speedbird
Speedbird is a stylized bird emblem designed by Theyre Lee-Elliott in 1932 for Imperial Airways. It later became the corporate logo for BOAC and British Airways.
Speedcore
Speedcore is an extreme hardcore techno subgenre defined by tempos of 300 BPM and above, distorted 909-style kicks, and roots in 1990s techno, gabber, and Bloody Fist; subgenres include splittercore and extratone.
Speedcubing
Speedcubing (speedsolving) is competitive solving of the Rubik's Cube and twisty puzzles, governed since 2003-2004 by the World Cube Association; 17 events, 15-second inspection, CFOP/Roux/ZZ methods, sub-5-second 3x3 records.
Speeded-up robust features
Speeded-up robust features (SURF) is a scale- and rotation-invariant local feature detector and descriptor that matches interest points across images, introduced in 2006 as a faster alternative to SIFT.
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, Kid Cudi's fifth studio album (December 4, 2015, Republic/Wicked Awesome), a 26-track double album of lo-fi grunge and alternative rock with Beavis and Butt-Head skits, debuting at number 36 on the Billboard 200.
Speeding
Speeding is driving a motor vehicle faster than the posted speed limit or too fast for road, weather, or traffic conditions, and it contributes to roughly one third of fatal road crashes.
Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a Vienna-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011, investing in European startups at pre-Seed and Seed stage with more than €1 billion under management.
Speedo
Speedo is an Australian-founded swimwear brand, created 1914 as Fortitude by Alexander MacRae and named Speedo in 1928, now owned by Britain's Pentland Group and known for Endurance+ fabric, the Fastskin and LZR Racer racing suits, and Olympic swimwear history.
Speedometer
A speedometer, also called a velocimetre, is the vehicle instrument that indicates speed in km/h or mph, commonly paired with an odometer; it was the first automotive instrument, patented by Otto Schulze in 1902.
SpeedRunners
SpeedRunners is a 2016 4-player competitive 2D platformer by DoubleDutch Games and tinyBuild; runners use grappling hooks, power-ups, and screen-edge elimination. Sequel SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed launched September 3, 2026.