Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

Women's 1000 metres speed skating
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Refer to caption
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Date 22 February 1960
Competitors 22 from 10 nations
Winning time 1:34.1 OR
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Klara Guseva  Soviet Union
2nd, silver medalist(s) Helga Haase  United Team of Germany
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Tamara Rylova  Soviet Union

The women's 1000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of women's speed skating events at the Olympics. The competition was held on the Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink and for the first time at the Olympics on artificially frozen ice. It was held on Monday, February 22, 1960. Twenty-two speed skaters from ten nations competed.[1]

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Klara Guseva
 Soviet Union		 Helga Haase
 United Team of Germany		 Tamara Rylova
 Soviet Union

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1960 Winter Olympics.

World Record 1:33.4(*) Soviet Union Tamara Rylova Medeo (URS) January 12, 1955
Olympic Record -

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Klara Guseva set the first Olympic record with 1:34.1 minutes.

Results

PlaceSpeed skaterTime
1 Klara Guseva (URS)1:34.1 OR
2 Helga Haase (EUA)1:34.3
3 Tamara Rylova (URS)1:34.8
4 Lidiya Skoblikova (URS)1:35.3
5 Helena Pilejczyk (POL)1:35.8
 Hatsue Takamizawa (JPN)1:35.8
7 Fumie Hama (JPN)1:36.1
8 Jeanne Ashworth (USA)1:36.5
9 Eevi Huttunen (FIN)1:37.2
10 Iris Sihvonen (FIN)1:37.3
11 Christina Scherling (SWE)1:37.5
12 Elsa Einarsson (SWE)1:38.0
13 Doreen Ryan (CAN)1:38.1
14 Françoise Lucas (FRA)1:38.4
15 Jeanne Omelenchuk (USA)1:39.8
16 Yoshiko Takano (JPN)1:39.9
17 Natascha Liebknecht (EUA)1:43.5
18 Sigrit Behrenz (EUA)1:43.8
19 Margaret Robb (CAN)1:45.8
20 Han Hye-Ja (KOR)1:48.8
— Kim Gyeong-Hoe (KOR)DNF
 Elwira Seroczyńska (POL)DNF

References

  1. ↑ "Speed Skating at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games: Women's 1,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  • Official Olympic Report
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 17 January 2009.
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