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

5000 metres
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for Speed skating
VenueSquaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
DatesFebruary 25
Competitors37 from 15 nations
Winning time7:51.3
Medalists
   Soviet Union
   Norway
   Netherlands
Speed skating
at the
1960 Winter Olympics
500 m men women
1000 m women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10000 m men

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 (GER) 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

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