The 5000 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. 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 Thursday, February 25, 1960.

Thirty-seven 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	7:45.6(*)	Boris Shilkov Boris Shilkov Boris Arsenevich Shilkov is a former speed skater.- Short biography :Competing for the Soviet Union, Boris Shilkov lived in Leningrad , where he worked as an engineer...	Medeo Medeo The Medeu , or Medeo , is an outdoor speed skating and bandy rink. It is located in a mountain valley on the south-eastern outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan. Medeu sits 1,691 metres above sea level, making it the highest skating rink in the world...  (URS Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... )	January 9, 1955
Olympic Record	7:48.7(*)	Boris Shilkov Boris Shilkov Boris Arsenevich Shilkov is a former speed skater.- Short biography :Competing for the Soviet Union, Boris Shilkov lived in Leningrad , where he worked as an engineer...	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 29, 1956

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

Results

Place	Speed skater	Time
1		7:51.3
2		8:00.8
3		8:05.1
4		8:05.3
5		8:05.4
6		8:06.6
7		8:09.1
		8:09.1
9		8:10.4
10		8:11.5
11		8:15.3
12		8:16.0
13		8:17.0
14		8:18.0
15		8:19.2
16		8:20.3
17		8:21.3
18		8:21.9
19		8:22.4
20		8:22.9
21		8:24.3
22		8:25.1
23		8:28.7
24		8:29.8
25		8:30.1
26		8:32.4
27		8:33.0
28		8:36.8
29		8:38.2
30		8:39.6
31		8:40.4
32		8:48.0
33		8:56.1
34		8:57.8
35		9:01.6
36		9:18.2
37		9:23.5