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 1960 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

At the 1960 Winter Olympics, eight speed skating events were contested. For the first time women were allowed to participated in the Olympic speed skating events. The competitions were held from Saturday, February 20 to Tuesday, February 23, 1960 and from Wednesday, February 24 to Saturday,...

 programme. It was the last speed skating contest at this Games. The competition was held on the Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink

Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink

The Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink was a temporary venue constructed for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. Located outdoors near the Blyth Arena, it hosted the speed skating and some of the ice hockey events for those games.-Reference:...

 and for the first time at the Olympics on artificially frozen ice. It was held on Saturday, February 27, 1960.

Thirty speed skaters from 15 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

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

World Record	16:32.6(*)	Hjalmar Andersen Hjalmar Andersen Hjalmar "Hjallis" Johan Andersen is a former speed skater from Norway who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games of Oslo, Norway. He was the only triple gold medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics, and as such, became the most successful athlete there.-Short biography:Hjalmar...	Hamar Hamar is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...  (NOR Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... )	February 10, 1952
Olympic Record	16:35.9(**)	Sigvard Ericsson Sigvard Ericsson John Sigvard "Sigge" Ericsson is a former speed skater.Ericsson started competing internationally in 1951 at the European Allround Championships where he did not qualify for the final distance...	Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo Cortina d'Ampezzo is a town and comune in the southern Alps located in Veneto, a region in Northern Italy. Located in the heart of the Dolomites in an alpine valley, it is a popular winter sport resort known for its ski-ranges, scenery, accommodations, shops and après-ski scene... /Lake Misurina Lake Misurina Lake Misurina is the greater natural lake of the Cadore and it is 1,754 m above sea level, fraction of Auronzo di Cadore . The perimeter is 2.6 km long, while the depth is 5 m....  (ITA Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... )	January 31, 1956

(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.

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

At first Kjell Bäckman

Kjell Bäckman

Kjell Hilding Bäckman is a Swedish speed skater who competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics.He was born in Göteborg.Bäckman won the bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in speed skating.-Personal records:-Olympic results:...

 bettered the world record with 16:14.2 minutes. Then Knut Johannesen

Knut Johannesen

Knut Johannesen is a former speed skater from Norway.-Biography:Born in Oslo and representing the skating club ASK there, Johannesen won the World Allround Championships in 1957 and 1964, the European Allround Championships in 1959 and 1960, and won the Norwegian...

 set a new world record with 15:46.6 minutes and bettered the old record by more than 45 seconds.

Results

Place	Speed skater	Time
1		15:46.6 WR
2		15:49.2
3		16:14.2
4		16:26.0
5		16:31.6
6		16:33.4
7		16:34.6
8		16:35.4
9		16:32.2
10		16:37.6
11		16:39.1
12		16:41.0
13		16:43.4
14		16:45.7
15		16:49.3
16		16:59.9
17		17:00.0
18		17:06.3
19		17:06.5
20		17:13.9
21		17:20.8
22		17:23.5
23		17:26.8
24		17:33.6
25		17:42.0
26		17:45.7
27		17:50.9
28		18:15.5
29		18:37.0
—		(16:41.9)

Nikolajs Štelbaums was disqualified.