Adelskalender
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The Adelskalendern is a ranking table for speed skating.
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[edit] Description
The Adelskalendern (meaning directory of nobility in Norwegian) is a ranking of skaters based on their all-time personal records for certain distances. As in samalog competitions, the skater's time (measured in seconds) for each distance is divided in 500 metre averages, truncated (not rounded) to 3 decimal places, and the results are then added up – the lower the sum, the better. The samalog system was introduced in 1928 in Norway, replacing ranking points in the traditional 4 distance championships, but can of course also be used to reconstruct scores based on personal records that were set before the samalog system was invented.
The classical Adelskalender consists of the Allround Championships distances: 500 m - 1500 m - 5000 m - 10000 m for men; 500 m - 1500 m - 3000 m - 5000 m for women. Similar rankings in many other combinations are maintained by enthusiasts and available on the Internet.
[edit] Example calculation
As an example, the points for Johann Olav Koss, in 1997 the last Norwegian to lead the ranking, are calculated as follows:
| 500 m: | 37.98 | = | 37.98 seconds. Divided by | 1 gives 37.980 points |
| 1500 m: | 1:51.29 | = | 111.29 seconds. Divided by | 3 gives 37.096 points |
| 5000 m: | 6:34.96 | = | 394.96 seconds. Divided by | 10 gives 39.496 points |
| 10000 m: | 13:30.55 | = | 810.55 seconds. Divided by | 20 gives 40.527 points |
| Total: | 155.099 points |
[edit] Caveats
The Adelskalender score is calculated over a skater's entire career and not for a single tournament. Theoretically, this would make it possible for a skater to lead the Adelskalender without ever having set a 4 distance championships samalog record, or even having won - or participated in - such a tournament.
Speed skating records have improved dramatically over the years due to a combination of larger participation, introduction of professionalism, and, especially, technical developments, distorting the comparison of the accomplishments of skaters over time. For comparison, the ranking leader on January 1, 1900 (Jaap Eden) had a score of 202.226, "averaging" 35.6 km/h. In 1925 Oscar Mathisen led with 192.860 (37.3 km/h), in 1950 Åke Seyffarth led with 188.678 (38.2 km/h), in 1975 Ard Schenk led with 166.241 (43.3 km/h), and in 2000 Rintje Ritsma led with 150.720 (47.8 km/h).
Among major technical developments were the introduction of artificial icerinks in about 1960, aerodynamics suits in 1975, covered and climate-controlled skating rinks in 1986, and the clap skate in 1996. Also, over time, more high altitude skating rinks have been built; the lower air pressure at higher altitude greatly benefits the skater's speed and world records generally are set at high altitude. This has led to people maintaining separate low-altitude rankings.
Even comparison of concurrent skaters can be distorted by the opportunity skaters have to train and compete on fast rinks. For example, before the 1960s, skaters were dependent on long periods of frost, less common at more southerly latitudes. The effect of access to high altitude rings was especially notable from 1973 to 1986, when most world records were set at Medeo, a rink at 1,691 m in Kazakhstan, which was rarely accessible to non-Soviet skaters. In 1977-8, the Adelskalender top 10 was comprised almost entirely of times set at Medeo, and many skaters in the top 10 never performed well at international meets. Currently, the two fastest speed skating rinks are the high altitude covered rinks at Calgary and Salt Lake City, both in North America.
[edit] Current Adelskalendern
[edit] Men
This table is correct as of 2008-03-14. Times in bold are the current world records at that distance. For comparison: the world record big combination (similar to the men's Adelskalender samalog, only for times in one weekend) is 145.742, by Shani Davis.
| Pos | Name | Country | 500 m | 1500 m | 5000 m | 10000 m | Samalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sven Kramer |  Netherlands |
36.20 | 1:43.99 | 6:03.32 | 12:41.69 | 145.279 |
| 2 | Chad Hedrick |  United States |
35.58 | 1:42.78 | 6:09.68 | 12:55.11 | 145.563 |
| 3 | Shani Davis | United States |
35.17 | 1:42.32 | 6:10.49 | 13:05.94 | 145.622 |
| 4 | Enrico Fabris |  Italy |
35.99 | 1:43.67 | 6:06.42 | 13:10.60 | 146.718 |
| 5 | Håvard Bøkko |  Norway |
35.87 | 1:43.93 | 6:12.28 | 13:06.42 | 147.062 |
| 6 | Jochem Uytdehaage | Netherlands |
36.27 | 1:44.57 | 6:14.66 | 12:58.92 | 147.538 |
| 7 | Carl Verheijen | Netherlands |
36.99 | 1:45.78 | 6:08.98 | 12:55.30 | 147.913 |
| 8 | Eskil Ervik | Norway |
37.03 | 1:45.73 | 6:10.65 | 12:59.69 | 148.322 |
| 9 | Denny Morrison |  Canada |
34.85 | 1:42.01 | 6:24.13 | 13:41.65 | 148.348 |
| 10 | Erben Wennemars | Netherlands |
34.68 | 1:42.32 | 6:28.42 | 13:35.67 | 148.411 |
[edit] Women
This table is correct as of 2008-01-13. Times in bold are the current world records at that distance. For comparison: the world record small combination (similar to the women's Adelskalender samalog, only for times in one weekend) is 154.580, by Cindy Klassen.
| Pos | Name | Country | 500 m | 1500 m | 3000 m | 5000 m | Samalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cindy Klassen | Canada |
37.51 | 1:51.79 | 3:53.34 | 6:48.97 | 154.560 |
| 2 | Anni Friesinger |  Germany |
37.77 | 1:53.09 | 3:58.52 | 6:58.39 | 157.058 |
| 3 | Claudia Pechstein | Germany |
38.99 | 1:54.31 | 3:57.35 | 6:46.91 | 157.342 |
| 4 | Ireen Wüst | Netherlands |
38.44 | 1:52.38 | 3:59.74 | 6:57.87 | 157.643 |
| 5 | Kristina Groves | Canada |
38.75 | 1:53.18 | 3:58.62 | 6:54.55 | 157.701 |
| 6 | Martina Sáblíková |  Czech Republic |
40.58 | 1:54.55 | 3:55.83 | 6:45.61 | 158.629 |
| 7 | Daniela Anschutz-Thoms | Germany |
39.38 | 1:55.29 | 3:58.59 | 6:56.15 | 158.693 |
| 8 | Renate Groenewold | Netherlands |
39.48 | 1:55.29 | 3:55.98 | 7:01.21 | 159.361 |
| 9 | Maki Tabata |  Japan |
39.18 | 1:54.56 | 4:01.01 | 7:00.09 | 159.543 |
| 10 | Christine Nesbitt | Canada |
38.41 | 1:52.75 | 4:05.42 | 7:07.15 | 159.611 |
[edit] References
- Current rankings in the men's Adelskalender - maintained by Evert Stenlund
- Current rankings in the women's Adelskalender - maintained by Evert Stenlund
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