1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

World Allround Speed Skating Championships
VenueM-Wave, Nagano
Dates14–16 February
Competitors36 (M), 30 (W) from 23 nations
Medalist men
Ids Postma NED
Keiji Shirahata JPN
Frank Dittrich GER
Medalist women
Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann GER
Claudia Pechstein GER
Tonny de Jong NED

The 1997 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held on 14–16 February 1997 in the M-Wave stadium in Nagano, Japan.

Title defenders were the 1996 world champions Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Rintje Ritsma from the Netherlands.

Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann from Germany and Ids Postma from the Netherlands became world champions.

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