Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

1500 metres
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for Speed skating
VenueSquaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Competitors48 from 16 nations
Winning time2:10.4
Medalists
   Norway
   Soviet Union
   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 1500 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 Friday, February 26, 1960.

Forty-eight speed skaters from 16 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Roald Aas (NOR)
 Yevgeny Grishin (URS)
 Boris Stenin (URS)

Records

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

World record 2:06.3(*) Finland Juhani Järvinen Squaw Valley/Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink (USA) March 1, 1959
Olympic record 2:08.6(**) Soviet Union Yevgeny Grishin Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA) January 30, 1956
2:08.6(**) Soviet Union Yuri Mikhaylov Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA) January 30, 1956

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

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

Results

Yevgeny Grishin who was the first speed skater to defend his 500 metres Olympic title was also able to repeat his win in the 1500 metres event. In 1956 he shared the win with fellow countryman Yuri Mikhaylov. This time Grishin tied with Roald Aas. Grishin was the second speed skater to win two gold medals in 1500 metres competitions after Clas Thunberg won in 1924 and 1928.

PlaceSpeed skaterTime
1  Roald Aas (NOR) 2:10.4
 Yevgeny Grishin (URS) 2:10.4
3  Boris Stenin (URS) 2:11.5
4  Jouko Jokinen (FIN) 2:12.0
5  Per-Olof Brogren (SWE) 2:13.1
 Juhani Järvinen (FIN) 2:13.1
7  Toivo Salonen (FIN) 2:13.1
8  André Kouprianoff (FRA) 2:13.3
9  Helmut Kuhnert (EUA) 2:13.6
10  Raymond Gilloz (FRA) 2:14.2
11  Knut Johannesen (NOR) 2:14.5
12  Gennadi Voronin (URS) 2:14.7
13  Kurt Stille (DEN) 2:15.8
14  Colin Hickey (AUS) 2:16.1
15  Wim de Graaff (NED) 2:16.5
 Gunnar Sjölin (SWE) 2:16.5
17  Dick Hunt (USA) 2:17.7
18  Olle Dahlberg (SWE) 2:18.3
 Manfred Schüler (EUA) 2:18.3
20  Mario Gios (ITA) 2:18.6
21  Fumio Nagakubo (JPN) 2:18.7
22  Floyd Bedbury (USA) 2:18.9
23  Keijo Tapiovaara (FIN) 2:19.2
24  Hermann Strutz (AUT) 2:19.4
25  Antonio Nitto (ITA) 2:19.6
26  Terry Monaghan (GBR) 2:19.9
27  Renato De Riva (ITA) 2:20.6
28  Bo Karenus (SWE) 2:21.1
29  Yoshitaki Hori (JPN) 2:21.7
 Keith Meyer (USA) 2:21.7
31  Harald Norden (EUA) 2:22.1
 Lev Zaytsev (URS) 2:22.1
33  Takeo Mizoo (JPN) 2:22.6
34  Shuji Kobayashi (JPN) 2:23.0
35  Eddie Rudolph (USA) 2:23.1
36  Ralf Olin (CAN) 2:23.5
37  Roy Tutty (AUS) 2:23.8
38  Günther Tilch (EUA) 2:24.8
39  Hroar Elvenes (NOR) 2:24.9
40  Terry Malkin (GBR) 2:25.0
41  Jang Yeong (KOR) 2:25.3
42  Choi Yeong-Bae (KOR) 2:26.7
43  Johnny Sands (CAN) 2:28.4
44  Jang In-Won (KOR) 2:30.7
45  Larry Mason (CAN) 2:35.3
 Nils Aaness (NOR) DNF
 Henk van der Grift (NED) DNF
 Franz Offenberger (AUT) DNF

References

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