Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres speed skating
at the VII Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for speed skating
Venue Lake Misurina
Date 31 January 1956
Competitors 32 from 15 nations
Winning time 16:35.9 OR
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Sigvard Ericsson  Sweden
2nd, silver medalist(s) Knut Johannesen  Norway
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Oleg Goncharenko  Soviet Union

The 10,000-metre speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics programme. It was the last speed skating contest at this Games. The competition was held on naturally frozen ice on the Lake Misurina. It was held on Tuesday, January 31, 1956, from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.

Thirty-two speed skaters from 15 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Sigvard Ericsson
 Sweden		 Knut Johannesen
 Norway		 Oleg Goncharenko
 Soviet Union

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1956 Winter Olympics.

World Record 16:32.6(*) Norway Hjalmar Andersen Hamar (NOR) February 10, 1952
Olympic Record 16:45.8(*) Norway Hjalmar Andersen Oslo (NOR) February 19, 1952

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

At first Oleg Goncharenko who skated in the third pair set a new Olympic record with 16:42.3 minutes. In the seventh pair Knut Johannesen bettered the Olympic record with 16:36.9 minutes. Finally Sigvard Ericsson set a new Olympic record with 16:35.9 minutes on the way to win the tenth heat and the gold medal.

Results

PlaceSpeed skaterTime
1 Sigvard Ericsson (SWE)16:35.9 OR
2 Knut Johannesen (NOR)16:36.9
3 Oleg Goncharenko (URS)16:42.3
4 Sverre Ingolf Haugli (NOR)16:48.7
5 Kees Broekman (NED)16:51.2
6 Hjalmar Andersen (NOR)16:52.6
7 Boris Yakimov (URS)16:59.7
8 Olle Dahlberg (SWE)17:01.3
9 Boris Tsybin (URS)17:03.4
10 Helmut Kuhnert (EUA)17:04.6
11 Johnny Cronshey (GBR)17:05.6
12 Juhani Järvinen (FIN)17:05.9
13 Sven Andersson (SWE)17:13.5
14 Vladimír Kolář (TCH)17:16.9
15 Gunnar Ström (SWE)17:17.0
16 Vladimir Shilykovski (URS)17:17.6
17 Kauko Salomaa (FIN)17:19.0
18 Wim de Graaff (NED)17:21.6
19 Knut Tangen (NOR)17:22.3
20 John Hearn (GBR)17:27.6
21 Hans Keller (EUA)17:27.7
22 Taketsugu Asazaka (JPN)17:35.3
23 Yoshiyasu Gomi (JPN)17:35.9
24 Toivo Salonen (FIN)17:37.6
25 Egbert van't Oever (NED)17:37.7
26 Bohumil Jauris (TCH)17:38.4
27 Colin Hickey (AUS)17:45.6
 Pat McNamara (USA)17:45.6
29 Arthur Mannsbarth (AUT)17:47.8
30 Kim Jong-Sun (KOR)17:52.6
31 Ralf Olin (CAN)17:59.2
32 Carlo Calzà (ITA)18:32.8

See also

References

  • Official Olympic Report
  • sports-reference
  • "Results of the 1956 Olympic Games 10,000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
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