World records

Expectations	Jan 22, 1908
TICKETS!	Jan 23, 1908
Preparations	Jan 24, 1908
Away!	Jan 25, 1908
On the rails	Jan 26, 1908
Still railing	Jan 27, 1908
Arrival!	Jan 28, 1908
Wörther See	Jan 29, 1908
Teeth!	Jan 30, 1908
Day before	Jan 31, 1908
First races!	Feb 1, 1908
The champion	Feb 2, 1908
To Davos!	Feb 3, 1908
Davos	Feb 4, 1908
Alpine sunshine	Feb 5, 1908
Davos is paradise	Feb 6, 1908
Outlooks in Davos	Feb 7, 1908
Losses in Davos	Feb 8, 1908
Gains in Davos	Feb 9, 1908
Leaving Davos	Feb 10, 1908
Through Germany	Feb 11, 1908
Homecoming!	Feb 12, 1908
Celebrated	Feb 13, 1908
Back to work	Feb 15, 1908
Finnepokalen	Feb 16, 1908
TSK cheated	Feb 22, 1908
Conclusion in Trondhjem	Feb 23, 1908
Wet snow in Kristiania	Feb 29, 1908
Winning the 500	Mar 1, 1908
Races in Helsingfors	Mar 8, 1908
Still not over	Mar 15, 1908
1908 Statistics	Mar 15, 1908
8.49,8!	Jan 10, 1909
46,2!	Jan 17, 1909
Naudin	Jan 21, 1909
Guests of honour	Jan 22, 1909
Lowland record!	Jan 23, 1909
European Champion!	Jan 24, 1909
Vienna cheated	Jan 27, 1909
The elusive record	Jan 30, 1909
Near miss	Jan 31, 1909
Number 1	Feb 1, 1909
Nordiska Spelen	Feb 6, 1909
Fending off Swedes	Feb 7, 1909
Költzow	Feb 14, 1909
Strunnikoff!	Feb 17, 1909
Wasenius!	Feb 20, 1909
Finnepokalen won!	Feb 21, 1909
The record man	Feb 24, 1909
Burnov!	Feb 27, 1909
Triumphant at Frogner	Feb 28, 1909
Lillehammer	Mar 5, 1909
National champion again	Mar 6, 1909
Hunting for Østlund	Mar 7, 1909
New challenges in Trondhjem	Mar 13, 1909
Beaten!	Mar 14, 1909
Spring races at Hamar	Mar 21, 1909
1909 Statistics	Dec 13, 1909
Winning over the Trønders	Jan 15, 1910
Outclassed	Jan 16, 1910
Snows in Davos	Jan 29, 1910
Record again!	Jan 30, 1910
Change of plans	Feb 2, 1910
In the nick of time	Feb 5, 1910
Winning over the Swedes	Feb 6, 1910
Intermezzo in Telemark	Feb 10, 1910
Unpleasant in Kristiania	Feb 12, 1910
The Björneborgars	Feb 13, 1910
Burnov is back	Feb 19, 1910
Water pantomime in Kristiania	Feb 20, 1910
Snow in Wiborg	Feb 26, 1910
The worst day of skating	Feb 27, 1910
Springtime in Helsingfors	Mar 5, 1910
Magnus Johansen	Mar 6, 1910
More water pantomime	Mar 12, 1910
Defeated again!	Mar 13, 1910
Last races	Mar 19, 1910
A season without Oscar	Dec 26, 1910
1910 Statistics	Jan 14, 1911
Pro?	Jan 15, 1911
Henning Olsen	Jan 21, 1911
The new champion	Jan 22, 1911
Bohrer is threatening	Jan 29, 1911
Strunnikov!!	Feb 4, 1911
Victory in the city match	Feb 5, 1911
New era	Feb 11, 1911
More records	Feb 12, 1911
Chasing records on Lillemjøsa	Feb 18, 1911
First title defended	Feb 19, 1911
Serious attacks on Strunnikov	Feb 25, 1911
Both titles defended	Feb 26, 1911
Stormy crossing	Mar 4, 1911
Finland victorious	Mar 5, 1911
Last races in Stockholm	Mar 12, 1911
Statistics 1911	Aug 15, 1911
The old champ rides again	Aug 20, 1911
Oscar Mathisen the biker	Aug 27, 1911
Thoughts	Sep 30, 1911
Championships 1912	Oct 31, 1911
Hamar SK	Nov 2, 1911
Dates 1912	Nov 16, 1911
Öholm	Nov 30, 1911
Frére Jacques	Dec 17, 1911
New Trøndish test	Dec 21, 1911
Points races in Trondheim	Dec 28, 1911
Threat from the east	Dec 31, 1911
I’m back!	Jan 7, 1912
Record again!	Jan 13, 1912
Watch out, Strunnikov!	Jan 14, 1912
Complications at Hamar	Jan 20, 1912
Back to normal	Jan 21, 1912
Klagenfurt revisited	Jan 27, 1912
An end and a beginning	Jan 28, 1912
Snow!	Feb 3, 1912
Frisian interlude	Feb 7, 1912
Another Russian teenager	Feb 10, 1912
A glimpse of the future	Feb 11, 1912
44,2!	Feb 17, 1912
17.46,3!	Feb 18, 1912
Låftman!	Feb 25, 1912
Water games at Frogner	Mar 3, 1912
Statistics 1912	Mar 4, 1912
Season opening—just barely	Jan 12, 1913
Oscar in town!	Jan 18, 1913
Strøm!	Jan 19, 1913
17.36,4!	Jan 25, 1913
First Ippolitov duel	Jan 26, 1913
17.22,6!	Feb 1, 1913
Beaten! Again!	Feb 2, 1913
And again!	Feb 9, 1913
And again and again!	Feb 10, 1913
The forsaken	Feb 16, 1913
Taking on an empire	Feb 22, 1913
The Champ	Feb 23, 1913
In the cold of Helsingfors	Mar 1, 1913
The empire stricken back	Mar 2, 1913
Beaten by a junior	Mar 8, 1913
Goodbye to the Frogner rink	Mar 9, 1913
44.0!	Mar 16, 1913
Statistics 1913	Mar 17, 1913
Letters from Ippolitov	Jan 8, 1914
The new Frogner: 43,7!	Jan 10, 1914
And 2.19,4!	Jan 11, 1914
And 43,4! And...	Jan 17, 1914
And 2.17,4!	Jan 18, 1914
Warmly welcomed at Horten	Jan 25, 1914
More records in Stockholm?	Jan 31, 1914
More exhibitions in Stockholm	Feb 1, 1914
Springtime in Berlin	Feb 8, 1914
Forsaken in Berlin	Feb 9, 1914
Back home in Kristiania	Feb 14, 1914
Devils in my breath	Feb 15, 1914
Skutnabb!	Feb 28, 1914
Finns prevail	Mar 1, 1914
2.19,2!	Mar 8, 1914
Statistics 1914	Mar 22, 1914
8.33,8!	Jan 13, 1915
The King meets the Prince	Jan 24, 1915
#6. Then what?	Jan 24, 1915
Trondhjem trip	Feb 6, 1915
The art of warming Trønders	Feb 7, 1915
The invincible after all?	Feb 13, 1915
Still the invincible	Feb 14, 1915
The breakthrough men	Feb 21, 1915
Statistics 1915	Mar 14, 1915
December debut	Dec 12, 1915
Farewell;mdash;to amateurism	Jan 22, 1916
Farewell;mdash;to amateurism	Jan 23, 1916
Statistics	Mar 24, 1916
Farewell	Oct 29, 1916
Prospects	Nov 11, 1916

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World records after the 1914 season:

Official:

   43,4 Oscar Mathisen     Davos     17 Jan 1914
 1.31,8 Oscar Mathisen     Davos     30 Jan 1909
 2.17,4 Oscar Mathisen     Davos     18 Jan 1914
(29-1.04-1.40-2.17,4)?
 8.36,6 Oscar Mathisen     Davos     17 Jan 1914
(60-1.41-2.23-3.05-3.46-4.27-5.09-5.51-6.32-7.15-7.56-8.36,6)
17.22,6 Oscar Mathisen     Frogner    1 Feb 1913
(45-1.27-2.09-2.51-3.33-4.15-4.56-5.39-6.21-7.03-7.45-8.27-9.08-9.50-10. 
32-11.14-11.56-12.38-13.20-14.01-14.42-15.22-16.03-16.43-17.22,6)

Inofficial:

 5.30,0 Nikolaj Sedov      Moscow           1905
194,780 Oscar Mathisen      Davos 17-18 Jan 1914
(43,4-8.36,6-2.17,4-17.58,4)
   65,0 Jelena Krementsjevskaja Moscow      1913
 2.34,0 Leop Gaggl         Klagenfurt 9 Feb 1896

Highly inofficial:

4.58,8 Oscar Mathisen      Frogner   19 Jan 1908
Handicap race?