Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics was held from 9 February to 18 February. Nine events were contested at Zetra Ice Rink. East Germany topped the medal table with four gold medals, and eleven total, including a complete sweep of gold and silver medals in the four women's events. This was only the second Games in which the United States did not win a speed skating medal, and as of 2018, the only time since 1960 the Netherlands did not win a medal in the sport. Japan's Yoshihiro Kitazawa won his country's
Ethiopia at the 2012 Summer Olympics bronze medal. In the women's marathon, Tiki Gelana became the first Ethiopian to win the gold medal since 1996, despite falling behind the other runners during the midway of the race. Ethiopia was given two "Universality places" from the FINA. Mulualem Girma Teshale finished farther behind the other swimmers, only in fifty-seventh place, failing him to advance into the semifinals. Yanet Seyoum, the first female Ethiopian swimmer finished sixty-fifth out of 73 swimmers, and also did not advance into the semifinals. Ethiopia at the 2012 Summer Olympics Ethiopia competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to