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

Women's 1000 metres at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Speed skating
Venue	Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 22
Competitors	22 from 10 nations
Winning time	1:34.1
Medalists
Klara Guseva   Soviet Union   Helga Haase   Germany   Tamara Rylova   Soviet Union

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 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.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Klara Guseva Soviet Union (URS)	Helga Haase Germany (EUA)	Tamara Rylova Soviet Union (URS)

Records

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

World Record	1:33.4(*)	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

Place	Speed skater	Time
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 (GER)	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

• Official Olympic Report
• sports-reference
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 17 January 2009.