page_title: List of 2002 Winter Olympics medal winners
section_title: Speed skating
hierarchical_section_title: List of 2002 Winter Olympics medal winners / Speed skating
caption_attribution_description: Jochem Uytdehaage (NED) quits at the WCh Allround in Thialf (Heerenveen, The Netherlands)
context_page_description: The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the XIX Olympic Winter Games, was an international multi-sport event held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, from February 8 through February 24, 2002. A total of 2399 athletes from 77 National Olympic Committees participated at the Games in 78 events across 15 disciplines.
  New events were contested in these Games; skeleton was re-introduced with events for both men and women, while women's bobsleigh was added to the program. The 78 events in Salt Lake City were an increase from 68 in Nagano at the 1998 Winter Olympics. Both men and women competed at these Games.
  A total of 407 athletes won at least one medal at the Games. Athletes from Norway topped the medal table with the most gold medals, winning 13 golds out of 25 total medals. Germany won the most medals overall with 36, of which 12 were gold. Host nation the United States won 34 medals, 10 of them gold. Athletes from 24 participating NOCs won at least one medal; and competitors from 18 won at least one gold medal.
caption: Jochem Uytdehaage, who won two gold medals at the 2002 Games, set new world records in both events.[98]
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