Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
[1][2] The Netherlands dominated the Nagano speed skating events, winning five gold medals and eleven medals overall, their highest total in any Winter games up until that point.Bart Veldkamp's bronze medal was the first in speed skating for Belgium, and the first at the Winter Games for the country in 50 years.Gianni Romme and Marianne Timmer led the individual medal tables, with two gold each.[3][4] Twenty-five nations competed in the speed skating events at Nagano.New Zealand and Portugal made their Olympic speed skating debuts.