Speed skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Speed Skating at the IV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Riessersee
Dates	February 11-14
Competitors	52 from 16 nations

At the 1936 Winter Olympics, four speed skating events were contested. The competitions were held on Tuesday, February 11, 1936, Wednesday, February 12, 1936, Thursday, February 13, 1936, and on Friday, February 14, 1936.

Medal summary

Medal winner shown below ^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	43.4	Georg Krog Norway (NOR)	43.5	Leo Freisinger United States (USA)	44.0
1500 metres	Charles Mathiesen Norway (NOR)	2:19.2	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	2:20.2	Birger Wasenius Finland (FIN)	2:20.9
5000 metres	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	8:19.6 (OR)	Birger Wasenius Finland (FIN)	8:23.3	Antero Ojala Finland (FIN)	8:30.1
10000 metres	Ivar Ballangrud Norway (NOR)	17:24.3 (OR)	Birger Wasenius Finland (FIN)	17:28.2	Max Stiepl Austria (AUT)	17:30.0

Participating nations

Seventeen speed skaters competed in all four events.

A total of 52 speed skaters from 16 nations competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games:

• Australia (1)
• Austria (8)
• Belgium (2)
• Canada (1)
• Czechoslovakia (2)
• Estonia (1)
• Finland (5)
• Germany (2)
• Hungary (1)
• Japan (7)
• Latvia (3)
• Netherlands (5)
• Norway (7)
• Poland (1)
• Sweden (1)
• United States (5)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	4	2	0	6
2	Finland	0	2	2	4
3	United States	0	0	1	1
	Austria	0	0	1	1

References

1. Organisationskomitee für die IV. Olympischen Winterspiele (1936). IV. Olympische Winterspiele 1936 Amtlicher Bericht (PDF) (in German). Knorr & Hirth. p. 437. Retrieved November 30, 2010.

• International Olympic Committee results database
• "Results of the 1936 Olympic Games Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 7 September 2012.