The 10000 metres speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

event was part of the speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, four speed skating events were scheduled, all for men, but medals were only awarded for three events, because the 10.000 m event was not completed. The Allround event, which was only organized in 1924, was removed from the program...

 programme. The competition was held on Tuesday, February 14, 1928.

Ten speed skaters from six nations competed.

The competition was cancelled in the fifth heat because of thawing ice.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 Winter Olympics.

World Record	17:17.4(*)	Armand Carlsen Armand Carlsen Armand Henning Carlsen was a Norwegian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.In 1928 he finished fifth in the 5000 metres event. He also started in the abandoned 10000 metres competition. He held the world record in the 10,000 metres distance between 1928 and 1939, clocking in...	Davos Davos Davos is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,248 . Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range...  (SUI Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... )	February 5, 1928
Olympic Record	18:04.8	Julius Skutnabb Julius Skutnabb Julius Ferninand Skutnabb was a Finnish speed skater who won several Olympic medals. He was born in Helsinki and died there as well....	Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...  (FRA France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... )	January 27, 1924

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

Heats

Heat 1

Place	Name	Time
1		18:36.5
2		18:36.6

Heat 2

Place	Name	Time
1		20:21.5
2		20:22.2

Heat 3

Place	Name	Time
1		20:00.9
–		DNF

Heat 4

Place	Name	Time
1		20:56.1
2		21:05.4

Heat 5

This heat was abandoned after 2000 metres due to thawing ice.

Place	Name	Time
–		-
–		-

Standings after four heats

Place	Speed skater	Time
1		18:36.5
2		18:36.6
3		20:00.9
4		20:21.5
5		20:22.2
6		20:56.1
7		21:05.4
–		DNF