Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Lake Misurina
Date	28–31 January 1956
No. of events	4
Competitors	83 from 17 nations
←  1952 1960  →

At the 1956 Winter Olympics , four speed skating events were contested. This was the last edition in which only men participated. The competitions were held from Saturday, 28 January, to Tuesday, 31 January 1956. ^[1]

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Yevgeny Grishin   Soviet Union	40.2 WR	Rafayel Grach   Soviet Union	40.8	Alv Gjestvang   Norway	41.0
1500 metres details	Yevgeny Grishin   Soviet Union Yuri Mikhaylov   Soviet Union	2:08.6 WR			Toivo Salonen   Finland	2:09.4
5000 metres details	Boris Shilkov   Soviet Union	7:48.7 (OR)	Sigvard Ericsson   Sweden	7:56.7	Oleg Goncharenko   Soviet Union	7:57.5
10,000 metres details	Sigvard Ericsson   Sweden	16:35.9 (OR)	Knut Johannesen   Norway	16:36.9	Oleg Goncharenko   Soviet Union	16:42.3

Participating nations

A total of 18 nations competed in the 4 events. Ten speed skaters competed in all four events.

•   Australia  (1)
•   Austria  (4)
•   Belgium  (1)
•   Canada  (3)
•   Czechoslovakia  (3)
•   Finland  (6)
•   France  (1)
•   United Team of Germany  (2)
•   Great Britain  (3)
•   Italy  (5)
•   Japan  (5)
•   South Korea  (4)
•   Netherlands  (6)
•   Norway  (11)
•   Soviet Union  (11)
•   Sweden  (7)
•   Switzerland  (2)
•   United States  (8)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	4	1	2	7
2	Sweden	1	1	0	2
3	Norway	0	1	1	2
4	Finland	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		5	3	4	12

References

1. "Speed Skating at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2019.

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database
• "Results of the 1956 Olympic Games Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 7 September 2012.