 However, Zofia Nehringowa set the first official world record in 1929.Women's speed skating was not very high-profile; in "Skøytesportens stjerner" (Stars of the skating sport), a Norwegian work from 1971, no female skaters are mentioned on the book's nearly 200 pages, though they had by then competed for nearly 30 years.The women's long track speed skating was since dominated by East Germany and later reunified Germany, who have won 15 of 35 Olympic gold medals in women's long track since 1984.