Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres speed skating
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for speed skating
Venue Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Date 25 February 1960
Competitors 37 from 15 nations
Winning time 7:51.3
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Viktor Kosichkin  Soviet Union
2nd, silver medalist(s) Knut Johannesen  Norway
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Jan Pesman  Netherlands

The 5000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics programme. 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 Thursday, February 25, 1960.

Thirty-seven speed skaters from 15 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Viktor Kosichkin (URS)  Knut Johannesen (NOR)  Jan Pesman (NED)

Records

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

World Record 7:45.6(*) Soviet Union Boris Shilkov Medeo (URS) January 9, 1955
Olympic Record 7:48.7(*) Soviet Union Boris Shilkov Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA) January 29, 1956

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

Results

PlaceSpeed skaterTime
1 Viktor Kosichkin (URS)7:51.3
2 Knut Johannesen (NOR)8:00.8
3 Jan Pesman (NED)8:05.1
4 Torstein Seiersten (NOR)8:05.3
5 Valeri Kotov (URS)8:05.4
6 Oleg Goncharenko (URS)8:06.6
7 Ivar Nilsson (SWE)8:09.1
 Keijo Tapiovaara (FIN)8:09.1
9 André Kouprianoff (FRA)8:10.4
10 Raymond Gilloz (FRA)8:11.5
11 Terry Monaghan (GBR)8:15.3
12 Kjell Bäckman (SWE)8:16.0
13 Olle Dahlberg (SWE)8:17.0
14 Arnold Uhrlass (USA)8:18.0
15 Juhani Järvinen (FIN)8:19.2
16 Mario Gios (ITA)8:20.3
17 Dick Hunt (USA)8:21.3
18 Hermann Strutz (AUT)8:21.9
19 Jeen van den Berg (NED)8:22.4
20 Kees Broekman (NED)8:22.9
21 Leo Tynkkynen (FIN)8:24.3
22 Helmut Kuhnert (EUA)8:25.1
23 Takeo Mizoo (JPN)8:28.7
24 Shuji Kobayashi (JPN)8:29.8
25 Roald Aas (NOR)8:30.1
26 Renato De Riva (ITA)8:32.4
27 Kurt Stille (DEN)8:33.0
28 Ralf Olin (CAN)8:36.8
29 Franz Offenberger (AUT)8:38.2
30 Floyd Bedbury (USA)8:39.6
31 Antonio Nitto (ITA)8:40.4
32 Sepp Biebl (EUA)8:48.0
33 Terry Malkin (GBR)8:56.1
34 Choi Yeong-Bae (KOR)8:57.8
35 Jang In-Won (KOR)9:01.6
36 Heinz Wolfram (EUA)9:18.2
37 Larry Mason (CAN)9:23.5

References

  • Official Olympic Report
  • sports-reference
  • "Results of the 1960 Olympic Games 5000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
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