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Speed Skating At The 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 Metres
The 1500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Monday, 2 February 1948. Forty-five speed skaters from 14 nations competed. Medalists Records These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1948 Winter Olympics. ''(*)'' The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice. All three medalists were faster than the standing Olympic record. Sverre Farstad Sverre Farstad (8 February 1920 – 27 March 1978) was a Norwegian speed skater representing ''Sportsklubben Falken'', Trondheim, as part of the Falken Trio also including Henry Wahl and Hjalmar Andersen. Farstad won one Olympic gold medal and on ... set the new Olympic record with a time of 2:17.6 seconds. Results References External linksOfficial Olympic Report* {{DEFAULTSORT:Speed Skating At The 1948 Winter Olympics - Men's 1500 Metres Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sverre Farstad
Sverre Farstad (8 February 1920 – 27 March 1978) was a Norwegian speed skater representing ''Sportsklubben Falken'', Trondheim, as part of the Falken Trio also including Henry Wahl and Hjalmar Andersen. Farstad won one Olympic gold medal and one European Championship in his three-year international career. Pre St. Moritz Before World War II, Farstad was active in workers races, and came second in the Norwegian Workers' Championship on the 5,000 m in 1940. During the war, he trained weightlifting and gymnastics in Trondheim, and returned to international competition by winning bronze at the European Championship 1947, where he won the 1,500 metres, and silver at the World Championship, where he won both 500 and 1,500 m, and was 2.2 seconds from becoming world champion by virtue of winning three distances. Instead, he finished second in the overall standings after finishing 30.9 seconds behind Lassi Parkkinen on 10,000 metres. He was awarded Egebergs Ærespri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göthe Hedlund
Göthe Emanuel Hedlund (31 July 1918 – 15 December 2003) was a Swedish speed skater who was at the world top around World War II. Hedlund made his international debut at the 1939 European Allround Championships of Riga, Latvia, finishing 16th. Two weeks later, he participated in the World Allround Championships held in Helsinki, but his times on the first three distances were not good enough to qualify him for the final distance. The start of World War II meant that only very few tournaments were organised, so Hedlund could not compete very often during those years. When the war was over, Hedlund participated in the first European Allround Championships after the war and promptly became the 1946 European Allround Champion. There were no official World Allround Championships that year, but unofficial World Championships were held in Oslo and Hedlund won silver there. In 1947, Hedlund won European silver behind compatriot Åke Seyffarth. At the 1948 Winter Olympics of St. Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentti Lammio
Pentti Johannes Lammio (24 October 1919 – 25 July 1999) was a Finnish speed skater who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics and in the 1952 Winter Olympics. He was born in Tampere and died in Kulju, Lempäälä Lempäälä (; Swedish also ) is a municipality in the Pirkanmaa region of Finland with inhabitants (). Lempäälä is located south of the city of Tampere. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . Th .... In 1948 he won the bronze medal in the 10000 metres event. He also finished eighth in the 5000 metres competition and 21st in the 1500 metres event. External links Profile 1919 births 1999 deaths Finnish male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Finland Speed skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in speed skating Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Tampere 20th-century Finnish people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Blum
Raymond Edward Blum (April 11, 1919 – May 5, 2010) was an American speed skating, speed skater who competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. He placed 20th in the Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres, Men's 1500 metres competition in a field of 45 and 17th in the Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres, Men's 5000 metres event in a field of 40. He was born in Nutley, New Jersey, and was a member of the Paterson Skating Club. He attended the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and earned a Bachelor's degree from the institution in 1950, after a stint in the United States Navy during World War II. He spent his later life working as an aerospace engineer for several companies in New England and California. On October 26, 1996, he was inducted into the NJIT Highlanders' Hall of Fame for his success as both a cyclist and a speed skater, as well as the American National Speedskating Muse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Howes
Henry Howes (born 11 October 1928) was a British speed skater. He competed in four events at the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz .... References 1928 births Living people British male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters of Great Britain Speed skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Brentford {{UK-speed-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mats Bolmstedt
Mats Bolmstedt (July 8, 1920 – December 9, 1965) was a Swedish speed skater who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics and in the 1952 Winter Olympics The 1952 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VI Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 6. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 6. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Oslo 1952, was a winter multi-sport event held from 14 to 25 February 195 .... In 1948 he finished tenth in the 500 metres competition and 17th in the 1500 metres event. External links Speed skating 1948 1920 births 1965 deaths Swedish male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Sweden Speed skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-speed-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivar Martinsen
Karl Ivar Martinsen (8 December 1920 – 24 September 2018) was a Norwegian speed skater. He competed in the 1500 m event at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and finished 16th and 8th, respectively. He won bronze medals at the 1952 world and 1953 European allround championships. Martinsen died in |
János Kilián
János Kilián (19 December 1922 – 26 March 2016) was a Hungarian speed skater. He competed in three events at the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz .... References 1922 births 2016 deaths Hungarian male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Hungary Speed skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Speed skaters from Budapest {{Hungary-speed-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kornél Pajor
Kornél Pajor (1 July 1923 – May 2016) was a Hungarian speed skating World Champion. He was born in Budapest. Career In early 1943, Pajor was a young and promising skater of 19 years old, but because World War II was in progress there were not many competitions. In Klagenfurt, Austria, at one of the few skating competitions that year, he won the 3000 m. After the war, skating competitions slowly returned to normal, and Pajor participated in the 1948 Winter Olympics of St. Moritz, with a fourth place on the 10000 m as his best result. The next year, 1949, turned out to be Pajor's best year: He became Hungarian National Allround Champion for the fourth time and then won bronze at the European Allround Championships, while setting a new world record on the 5000 m during those championships. On the 10000 m during those championships, he skated a time of 16:58.7, which was faster than Charles Mathiesen's nine-year-old world record of 17:01.5 on that distance. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Langedijk
Jan Langedijk (27 July 1910 – 3 December 1981) was a Dutch speed skater who competed at the 1936 and 1948 Winter Olympics. In 1936 he finished 24th in the 500 m, 14th in the 1500 m, fourth in the 5000 m and sixth in the 10,000 m event. Twelve years later he placed 29th in the 500 m, 13th in the 1500 m, fifth in the 5000 m The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stand ... and sixth in the 10,000 m events. Domestically he won the Dutch allround titles in 1940 and 1947. References External links Speed skating 1936+1948 1910 births 1981 deaths People from Langedijk Dutch male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters of the Netherlands Speed skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from North Holland 20th-century Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antero Ojala
Yrjö Antero Ojala (December 10, 1916 – February 5, 1982) was a Finnish speed skater who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics and in the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz .... In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the 5000 metres competition. In the 10000 metres event he finished seventh, in the 500 metres competition he finished eighth, and in the 1500 metres event he finished ninth. Twelve years later he finished twelfth in the 1500 metres competition, 14th in the 500 metres event, and 26th in the 5000 metres competition. External links ProfileSpeed skating 1936 1916 births 1982 deaths Finnish male speed skaters Olympic speed skaters for Finland Speed skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1948 Winter Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
