Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10.000 metres speed skating at the V Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink
Date	3 February 1948
Competitors	47 from 11 nations
Winning time	17:26.3
Medalists
Åke Seyffarth  Sweden Lassi Parkkinen  Finland Pentti Lammio  Finland

Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics
500 m	men
1500 m	men
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The 10,000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Tuesday, February 3, 1948.

Twenty-seven speed skaters from eleven nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Åke Seyffarth  Sweden	Lassi Parkkinen  Finland	Pentti Lammio  Finland

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1948 Winter Olympics.

World Record	17:01.5(*)	Charles Mathiesen	Hamar (NOR)	March 3, 1940
Olympic Record	17:24.3	Ivar Ballangrud	Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)	February 14, 1936

(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Åke Seyffarth (SWE)	17:26.3
2	Lassi Parkkinen (FIN)	17:36.0
3	Pentti Lammio (FIN)	17:42.7
4	Kornél Pajor (HUN)	17:45.6
5	Kees Broekman (NED)	17:54.7
6	Jan Langedijk (NED)	17:55.3
7	Odd Lundberg (NOR)	18:05.8
8	Harry Jansson (SWE)	18:08.0
9	Rune Hammarström (SWE)	18:39.6
10	Max Stiepl (AUT)	19:25.5
11	John Werket (USA)	19:44.0
12	Pierre Huylebroeck (BEL)	19:54.8
13	Craig Mackay (CAN)	20:15.5
14	Anton Huiskes (NED)	20:16.4
15	Iván Ruttkay (HUN)	20:16.5
16	János Kilián (HUN)	20:23.8
17	Louis Rupprecht (USA)	21:20.3
18	Art Seaman (USA)	21:34.8
19	Richard Solem (USA)	26:22.4
–	Göthe Hedlund (SWE)	DNF
	Reidar Liaklev (NOR)	DNF
	Kalevi Laitinen (FIN)	DNF
	Henry Wahl (NOR)	DNF
	Johnny Cronshey (GBR)	DNF
	Hjalmar Andersen (NOR)	DNF
	Henry Howes (GBR)	DNF
–	Vladimír Kolář (TCH)	DQ

References

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1948 Olympic Games 10,000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.